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Saturday, January 3, 2026
TopicWest Asia

Topic: West Asia

Modi reaches Muscat for final leg of 3-nation tour, India-Oman free trade agreement to be signed today

Apart from FTA, a number of key agreements are expected in sectors such as trade, investment, energy, defence, technology, agriculture, culture & people-to-people ties.

This year’s post-Diwali pollution shows people in Delhi have made a choice

ThePrint view on the most important issues this week.

As Western allies recognise Palestine, Trump set to take US vision of a post-war Gaza to Muslim world

Trump's decision to host a meeting with Muslim world leaders comes after the US-led Western unity over Israel has cracked following Tel Aviv's attacks on Doha earlier this month.

We’re not in ‘business’ of regime change or redrawing maps, says Israeli ambassador to India

Gurugram: Israel is not in the “business” of changing regimes or redrawing maps in West Asia like Turkey or Iran, said Reuven Azar, the...

Egyptian foreign minister’s India visit postponed after US strikes nuclear facilities in Iran

This is the second time this year that the Egyptian FM's visit to India has been postponed due to geopolitical situation in West Asia. Abdelatty was set to travel to New Delhi Monday.

Elevation of ties to strategic partnership, potential FTA. Key takeaways from Qatari Amir’s visit

The West Asian nation is looking to build momentum in ties with India following challenges surrounding the arrest of 8 Indian Navy veterans in 2022.

Defence pact, national award for Modi as India, Kuwait embark on new ‘strategic partnership’

The two countries also agreed to work on a roadmap to expand all aspects of the bilateral partnership. Indians make up 21% of Gulf nation's population & 30% of its workforce.

India is proactive peacemaker in Russia-Ukraine war & West Asia conflict, says Jaishankar

The foreign minister continues to highlight India's unique position of being friends with all warring parties, as it pushes to resolve conflict and build resilient supply chains.

India’s wholesale prices rise 1.84% in September, food prices climb

Widening conflict in West Asia has pushed global oil prices, and that could fan inflation in India, which is the third-largest oil importer and consumer.

Lebanon urges India to hold talks with Israel to de-escalate, envoy says Hezbollah has right to resist

Lebanese ambassador to India, Rabie Narsh, tells ThePrint that Lebanon will continue resistance against Israel to prevent a second occupation and that India has invested in peace in West Asia.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.