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Wednesday, May 20, 2026
TopicIndia-US trade

Topic: India-US trade

Indian firms promise $20.5 billion investment in US, ‘largest ever’ such pledge, says Sergio Gor

At a little over $19 billion, pledged investments are primarily in the pharmaceutical sector, with $11.75 billion alone from Sun Pharmaceuticals’ proposed purchase of New Jersey-based Organon & Co

Youth Congress shirtless at AI summit: ‘PM compromised’ slogans, BJP’s ‘anti-national’ swipe at Rahul

IYC members enter the Summit venue in Delhi & raise slogans against PM Modi, US trade deal. BJP slammed them for ‘anti-national’ act, and sought apology from the Gandhi family.

Don’t celebrate India-US deal yet. It’s a work in progress & Trump can back out any time

The present punishing visa rules, restrictive employment regime and discriminatory immigration system will not facilitate bilateral trade. A return to normalcy is a precondition.

India was on wrong side of seesaw, says US commerce secy on stalled trade deal. ‘Modi didn’t call’

India, Howard Lutnick says, was uncomfortable with a Modi-Trump call & that let a negotiated deal fall through & when Delhi was ready for a deal, Washington wanted different terms.

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.

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

The math is clear — buying Russian oil is now a losing deal for India

India’s Russian oil purchases have effectively meant a transfer of gains from millions of workers in labour-intensive sectors to a few large refiners.

Trump’s latest sanctions could dry up Russian oil flow to India

Senior executives said Washington's latest sanctions on Russian producers Rosneft PJSC and Lukoil PJSC would make it all but impossible for crude flows to continue. Imports from Russia have been a major hurdle in India-US trade negotiations after Trump tariffs came into effect.

US, China bully India in global market. Delhi must get its own instruments of leverage

India has an advantage which even long-standing powers do not have—the world's highest concentration of Global Capability Centres.

Global media tracks Trump tariff fallout—‘political headaches’ for Modi, need for ‘new approach’ to reform

NYT explores consequences for India's solar industry as US tariffs kick in. The Guardian profiles ‘India’s first divorce camp’.

On Camera

Norway’s Modi cartoon was not satire. Just colonial laziness

Political satire is indispensable to democracy, racial caricature isn’t. If Europe’s liberal press still cannot tell difference, then decolonisation never happened in their imagination.

Recovery of unclaimed shares, dividends now takes days, not yrs. EAC-PM credits investor watchdog revamp

PM-EAC paper says overhaul of Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority system sharply improved processing speed and reduced paperwork for investors.

Dragon’s armour: How Xi reshaped China’s military with theatre commands a decade before India’s push

While India yet to set in motion theaterisation of armed forces, China's military reforms combined China’s Army, Navy, Air Force and Rocket Force aimed at regional dominance & tight political control.

Pakistan is tactically brilliant, strategically disastrous. It’s primed for repeated blunders

Pakistan has ended up losing every war against India but that hasn’t prevented it from claiming victory. We will go over the evidence to anticipate what to expect next.