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TopicPeter Navarro

Topic: Peter Navarro

MEA denies reports of secret Doval-Rubio meet that led to breakthrough in India–US ties

American media company Bloomberg had claimed that Doval had secretly flown to US & met with Rubio, telling him New Delhi will not be bullied & would wait out Trump’s tenure if needed.

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.

‘All India can do is manage few hundred thousand X propagandists to jerk around a poll’—Navarro at it again

After X users appended fact-checking community notes to his claims that Indian trade increased under Trump, he launched a tirade against social media platform & its owner Elon Musk.

India rejects Trump trade hawk Navarro’s ‘Brahmins profiteering’ comment—‘inaccurate & misleading’

MEA also said India had no role to play in denying Azerbaijan membership in the SCO earlier this week, amid Azeri media reports that Baku blamed New Delhi for blocking its membership.

‘Brahmins’ remark & ‘Modi’s war’ to ‘freeloading’: What rattled Trump advisers have said about India

Trump trade adviser Navarro’s ‘Brahmins profiteering’ remark is the latest in a string of attacks on India as he seeks to justify the steep tariffs imposed by the US on Indian goods.

‘Brahmins profiteering…’: Trump adviser Peter Navarro’s bizarre jibe at India over Russian oil

His remarks, made during an appearance on Fox News, came as he defended President Trump’s decision to double tariffs on Indian goods to 50 percent.

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.