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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicModi state visit

Topic: Modi state visit

Modi set for 5-nation Africa & Latin America visit in July; will be 1st PM to visit Ghana since Rao

It will be his second visit to South America in last 8 months. The packed schedule will see a week of travel, as New Delhi seeks to step up its cooperation with the two regions.

Kashmir, nuclear program to FATF—France always backed India. Modi visit building on that

France wants to play a bigger role in the Indo-Pacific. And India’s economic potential and geo-strategic location make it the ideal partner.

Biden gift to Modi wasn’t just the 1st edition of Robert Frost poems but also a homage to Nehru

The gifts that Modi and Biden exchanged serve as a testament to the mutual admiration between India and US. They also show the ability of poets to connect people through their words.

Modi-Biden went beyond pomp and show to build trust. India-US must keep the promise now

Technology, trade, trust—Joe Biden's US went out of its way to woo Narendra Modi's India during the prime minister's official state visit.

Why General Electric-HAL deal to manufacture fighter jet engines in India is a big deal

The 'historic' deal is 'most significant' of a number of agreements expected to be concluded between the two countries during PM Modi's visit to the US which ends Friday.

Star-struck TV channels lavish praise on Modi like Americans spread peanut butter on bread

When Modi's plane touched down in New York, TV reporters who had flown out for the state visit were thrilled. Arnab Goswami on Republic TV was screaming: 'The entire world is looking.'

Modi-Biden talk of ‘values’ has one purpose. Strengthening the cause of democracy isn’t it

When Narendra Modi and Joe Biden compliment each other as torchbearers of democracy and champions of global stability, they will be trading stock phrases bleached of meaning and substance.

Jet engines to semiconductors—Modi’s visit a new phase of US-India ties. Private sector leads

A startup-driven US-India defence innovation agenda represents the democratised supply chains and innovation paradigms of the future.

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.