BBC spends a day out on the streets of heatwave-hit Delhi with a thermal camera & South China Morning Post wonders whether a Russia-China-India axis is in the making.
While Centre has lodged protest with the US, Congress leaders have termed govt response as ‘shameful’ and called for stronger action to safeguard India's interests.
US Under Secy of War for Policy Elbridge Colby at an event in Delhi said US-India don't need to agree on everything to cooperate effectively, but 'interests converge on fundamental issues'.
India, however, has maintained that any purchases of Russian oil is a business decision for its firms, without clarifying if any political commitment was made to the US.
Defence Acquisition Council likely to take up P-8I procurement, cleared in 2019, in third week this month. Proposed joint production of GE F414-INS6 engine also on agenda.
US President further wrote, in a lengthy Truth Social post, that he would reduce reciprocal tariffs from 25 percent to 18 percent, in a lengthy Truth Social post. India is yet to react.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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