Envoy Denis Alipov said last week that Moscow had stopped recruiting Indians to armed forces since March 2025. However, 27 Indian families claim their kin were duped & recruited recently.
German companies are handing Beijing sensitive supply chain information, which is demanded by Chinese officials before they approve exports of rare earth elements, used in an array of modern products.
Moscow and New Delhi have talked up their "strategic partnership" since U.S. President Donald Trump announced higher tariffs on imports from India earlier this month because of its purchases of Russian oil.
New Delhi: India’s “old, strategic and privileged” partnership with Russia is crucial at a time of global “unpredictability” and “uncertainty”, National Security Adviser (NSA)...
India’s strategic decisions suggest a pragmatic reading of the US' duality. While defence cooperation with the US has accelerated, India continues to diversify its military suppliers.
MEA Friday clarified India’s energy purchases follow market trends and national interest, adding that the govt has no information on any Indian oil firms halting Russian imports.
New Delhi’s growing optimism around the delivery of the two remaining S-400 Triumf air defence systems belies the long and complicated journey of the deal.
US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick Friday urged New Delhi to reduce its reliance on Russian defence platforms and hit out at BRICS for its de-dollarisation efforts.
Global media also traces Air India's 'corporate turnaround story in sync with India’s triumphalist narrative'. But it isn't in the clear yet; losses & scepticism may be holding it back.
Ventures by Japan, South Korea and Taiwan illustrate how the race for REE security is accelerating, powered by both geopolitical tension and industrial strategy.
ThePrint had previously reported that India & Russia are talking about 5 more regiments of the S-400, but no contracts are to be signed during the Russian president's visit.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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