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Sunday, October 12, 2025
TopicIndia-US

Topic: India-US

Good progress achieved in trade negotiations, says Modi after his second call with Trump in a month

This is 2nd call between 2 leaders within month; they had not spoken between June & September. Earlier this week, Senate confirmed Sergio Gor as new Ambassador to India.

Jaishankar on trade deal with US—compromises needed on both ends, but India has ‘certain red lines’

Speaking at the closing session of the Kautilya Economic Conclave in Delhi, the EAM stressed India needs to diversify relationships in new world order.

Hyderabad student ‘shot dead’ at US gas station, 2nd Indian national killed in Texas within a month

Chandra Shekhar Pole, had completed his Bachelor’s in Dental Surgery and then moved to the US for higher studies. He was working at the gas station part-time.

Few shaping policy, one rogue voice making rash remarks, Indian diaspora must speak up—US Rep. Ami Bera

Bera led a Congressional delegation to India this week. He tells ThePrint his Republican colleagues need to raise their voice on Trump’s policy decisions threatening to derail India-US ties.

Trade and tariffs were focus of Jaishankar’s meeting with Marco Rubio, says MEA

In first comments on talks between two leaders, MEA says issues of trade & tariffs were raised by EAM Jaishankar during his meeting with American Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Trump’s H-1B visa fee another ‘headache-inducing’ twist in India-US ties & misplaced AI boom ‘anxiety’

Global media says Trump’s new H-1B visa rule, added to 50% tariff, makes it more pressing than ever for India to fix impediments that hamper its economic potential.

US revokes visas of Indian executives & their families over ‘fentanyl smuggling links’

Move comes a day after India was designated by Trump administration as a major drug transit country, and multiple US deportations and visa restrictions earlier this year.

India’s ‘restraint’ amid US ‘betrayal’ may be ‘paying off’ & Kolkata’s Paris-esque nights

Financial Times writes about proposed Halting International Relocation of Employment (HIRE) Act in US which will 'affect prospects of' Indian giants such as TCS & Infosys.

US deep state’s involvement in Nepal, Bangladesh is an absurd conspiracy theory

The neighbourhood is a region of potential risks for any regionally dominant power like India, but regional dominance also carries some advantages.

Don’t blame Trump alone—India-US ties were on shaky ground anyway

For all the various formats of bilateral dialogue, the India-US relationship never developed an institutional framework that could have prevented a free fall under circumstances like the current ones.

On Camera

Zubeen Garg saga is resembling Sushant Singh Rajput. Did we not learn our lesson?

Oceans sit between the Assamese singer and the Bollywood actor. But what their deaths reveal is a study in human behaviour as performed in the public sphere.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.