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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicIndia-US ties

Topic: India-US ties

Don’t want anyone to buy Russian oil, India has made commitment—US envoy Gor as Delhi enters Pax Silica

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. 

‘Commitment to reciprocal & balanced trade based on mutual interests’—India-US joint statement on deal

The agreement comes after a year of back and forth and frosty ties between the two countries. Read full text of the joint statement.

Trade deal sorted, India & US move on to pending defence pacts—P-8I aircraft first, engines next

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.

Trump announces India-US trade deal soon after ‘call with Modi’, tariffs lowered from 25% to 18%

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.

Why India shouldn’t risk joining Trump’s Gaza ‘Board of Peace’

One very strong and strategic reason for India to not join Trump’s Board of Peace is that it is in reality an alternative to the UN.

New Delhi to be invited to join Pax Silica initiative, says Sergio Gor, new US envoy to India

Next call on trade between the two sides to occur Tuesday, says the ambassador-designate who arrived in India Friday & is set to present his credentials to the President Wednesday.

MEA should stop living in dread of Trump. We’ve lived through Nixon before

Donald Trump seems to have rejected the old assumptions. He does not care that India is the world’s largest democracy. As for the Indian market, he wants access on his own terms.

500% tariffs ahead for India? Trump’s lined up a big bad Bill for countries buying Russian oil

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham says bill will be 'well-timed, as Ukraine is making concessions for peace and Putin is all talk, continuing to kill the innocent'.

US Ambassador-designate Sergio Gor to arrive in India next week

The formal takeover comes at a time when bilateral ties between the two countries have hit a rough patch over tariffs and other matters.

India-US cooperation on critical-mineral recycling can reduce dependence on China

Rather than depending solely on primary refining, recycling is becoming essential to secure supply chains and maintain a circular mineral economy.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.