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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicHoward Lutnick

Topic: Howard Lutnick

‘Modi, Trump spoke 8 times in 2025’: India says Lutnick’s claims on stalled US trade deal inaccurate

Two sides have held multiple rounds of negotiation to arrive at a balanced & mutually beneficial trade agreement & a deal was close on several occasions, asserts MEA.

India was on wrong side of seesaw, says US commerce secy on stalled trade deal. ‘Modi didn’t call’

India, Howard Lutnick says, was uncomfortable with a Modi-Trump call & that let a negotiated deal fall through & when Delhi was ready for a deal, Washington wanted different terms.

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.