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Sunday, April 12, 2026
TopicIndia-Iran

Topic: India-Iran

India’s role in Chabahar uncertain, Iran hails critical port as ‘golden bridge’ of Delhi-Tehran ties

Post by the Iranian Embassy comes weeks ahead of the end-date of the extended waiver on sanctions levelled by the US on Chabahar.

Iran Embassy thanking only Kashmiris for donating money is deliberately mischievous

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

Iran’s embassy in India buckles under Pak pushback, deletes tweets thanking ‘people of Kashmir, India’

Tehran’s diplomatic mission in New Delhi has since shared and amplified content from Iranian state media thanking ‘Kashmiris’, without mentioning India.

‘Diplomacy yielding results’—Jaishankar says talks with Iran best way to deal with Hormuz blockade

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India in talks with Iran to secure safe passage for over 20 tankers through Hormuz

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has spoken to Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi three times in recent days, the ministry has said.

Nehru and Modi’s dilemmas are similar. Secret documents on 1953 nuclear crisis show

As critics accuse PM Modi of surrendering national sovereignty and India’s moral compass over Iran crisis, declassified documents show the dilemmas he faces are not new.

India has lost the language for Iran

When the British replaced Persian with English as the administrative language in 1837, they uprooted a seven-century tradition that had become, in every sense, Indian.

As thousands protest Khamenei killing in Kashmir Valley, 50 arrested, AI drones watch ‘troublemakers’

Police say crackdown targeted individuals who raised provocative slogans against India, not mourners. AI-enabled facial recognition drone cameras used for identification.

Genetics, biotechnology, robotics—India’s MoU with Iranian universities are in limbo

A senior professor from Jamia Millia Islamia University told ThePrint that the tenure of most of the university’s partnerships was either over or was on the verge of expiry.

Torpedoed by US, Frigate Dena was ‘guest of India’s Navy, struck without warning’—Iran’s Araghchi

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed that a US submarine sank the IRIS Dena with a Mark 48 torpedo, calling it 'the first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since WW2'.

On Camera

Congress was committed to alcohol ban law without being practical: MA Venkata Rao

Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.

Fuel shock hits Asia’s rice bowl as farmers cut planting

War-driven surge in fuel and fertilizer costs forces farmers across Southeast Asia to delay harvests, scale back sowing and risk lower output.

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.