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Friday, September 26, 2025
TopicIndia-Russia

Topic: India-Russia

Trump blows hot & cold on India amid White House ‘frustration’ at inability to contain Russia

Global media highlights Donald Trump asking EU to hit India & China with 100 percent tariff, days after proclaiming on social media he’d ‘always be friends’ with PM Modi.

Navarro to Loomer—Trump’s team is making India new frontline of MAGA politics

It's a wolf pack unleashed on India, and Peter Navarro is leading it. The week gone by has been critical for Indian diplomacy amid the tensions with the US.

India & Russia always ‘stood shoulder to shoulder’ Modi tells Putin, calls for end to Ukraine war

New Delhi: Amid strained ties with the US, Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasised Monday that India and Russia have always “stood shoulder to shoulder...

US picking on India for trade concessions—ex-MEA adviser responds to Trump adviser’s ‘Russia oil math’ take

Global media looks at how US-India relationship is in jeopardy, while Pakistan has 'quietly & successfully navigated Trump's political world'.

If India stopped buying Russian oil, China would gain and global prices would go up

The West should thank India for buying Russian oil and stabilising the global market.

US treasury secy slams Indo-Russia oil trade, says profits benefits India’s ‘richest families’

This follows Peter Navarro's comment that India is 'a global clearing house for Russian crude' & that the proceeds flow to India's politically connected energy titans & into Putin’s war chest.

Russia hopes to revive RIC, criticises US threat of sanctions against India

Comments by Russian diplomat in Delhi, Roman Babushkin, come amid renewed interest in the trilateral format, with India-US ties in a rough patch. EAM Jaishankar is currently in Moscow.

Indian foreign policy is in free fall. Can we balance national pride with new power reality?

Unless dramatic reversals take place, the core of India’s foreign policy, which, at least since 2000, has focused on the US, Pakistan, China, and Russia, stands on the verge of collapse.

Amid Trump’s tariff bombs, India’s business with America surged while imports from Russia dipped 10%

As India-Russia trade decreases, India's April-July exports to the US this year increased by 21% compared to last year & imports from the US grew by 12%.

‘Pragmatic reset’ in India-China ties, the Trump factor, and the India-Russia ‘oil mathematics’

Global media looks at the India-Pakistan ‘flagpole war’ and why China stands to benefit from the Modi-Trump fallout.

On Camera

Bads of Bollywood brought Emraan Hashmi out of our guilty pleasure closet, made him cool

With his cameo in Bads of Bollywood, Emraan Hashmi, who has long shifted away from his signature bold image, got the chance to revive his boyhood charm.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

Govt inks deal with HAL for 97 new Tejas Mk1A; previous order’s deliveries likely to begin next yr

There were no plans to have Mk1A version. However, compromise was reached between HAL & IAF in 2015 since original plan for getting Mk2 would've been time-consuming affair.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.