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Jaishankar on trade deal with US—compromises needed on both ends, but India has ‘certain red lines’

Speaking at the closing session of the Kautilya Economic Conclave in Delhi, the EAM stressed India needs to diversify relationships in new world order.

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.

‘Threatening development cannot aid peace’—Jaishankar on US, EU ‘double standards’ over tariffs, energy

Strongly criticising use of tariffs & sanctions on countries keeping ties with Russia, the minister indicated that the end to conflict can only be achieved via diplomatic means.

India-US thaw in the making? Trump calls Modi ‘friend’, PM says he ‘fully reciprocates’

New Delhi: Relations between India and the United States appeared to signal a thaw this weekend after Prime Minister Narendra Modi publicly acknowledged and...

Biden’s aides make ‘case for India-US alliance’ as Trump team escalates ‘anti-India rhetoric’

NYT reports on deluge of rain in north India that has come at a ‘particularly inopportune moment', doing undue damage to crops.

Predictability has a premium, says Jaishankar as India, EU grow closer amid Trump tariff uncertainty

The external affairs minister met with visiting German counterpart Johann Wadephul Wednesday, days after PM Narendra Modi had a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. 

Humiliation in two distinct ‘flavours’—an ‘epic mistake’ by Trump, a test for Modi

Financial Times reports on ‘the largest litigant clogging up’ Indian judicial system while NYT looks at protests in Mumbai over restrictions on pigeon feeding.

Pushback against globalisation shouldn’t make us withdraw from it

As geopolitical tensions prompt serious calls for 'de-globalisation' and reduced import dependence, a more measured path may lie in regional globalisation.

Chinese chatter says Trump tariffs will make India turn to China and Russia

One analyst noted that Trump’s tariff on India signals a clear shift from Washington’s earlier view of New Delhi as a friendly partner to a strategic adversary.

Stand up to Trump or cave on Russian crude? Why US President’s move has put Modi ‘in a bind’

A piece in The Economist says India will eventually be able to replace its Russian supply, but China will be the final benefactor.

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What the key political events of 2025 tell us about Narendra Modi and India’s future

From Operation Sindoor to India-US tensions to the EC controversies, a clear understanding has emerged about where the politics is headed now.

Steady growth rooted in ‘Dravidian model’. How Tamil Nadu more than doubled its GSDP in 10 yrs

RBI Handbook of Statistics shows state’s GSDP has more than doubled in past decade, finishing second behind Maharashtra. It has performed well across health & education parameters as well.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.