Indian Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Monday that India feels no “moral conflict” over buying oil from Russia, although he also took pains to minimize the impact of India’s discounted Russian energy purposes.
China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday claimed the rollout of an experimental aerosolized coronavirus vaccine in Shanghai was a smashing success, because test subjects love inhaling the sweet-smelling gas.
U.S. President Joe Biden has raised eyebrows for congratulating “Rashee Sanuk” for becoming Britain’s new Prime Minister.
Britain is “now in the hands of an Indian” with Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister, a major Hindi-language newspaper has claimed.
Rishi Sunak becoming Prime Minister “would be a historic landmark” due to his migration background and religion, according to AFP.
Russia’s trade volume with India is exploding, even as India’s Western allies slap sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. India’s greatly increased imports of Russian oil and fertilizer are key elements of the trade boom.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said during a visit to Riyadh this weekend that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is interested in joining the BRICS coalition, a trade and security organization led by Russia and China.
The Boeing Company is set to outsource to India hundreds of coveted white-collar American jobs, beginning this year, while making billions from taxpayer-funded contracts with the Defense Department.
A United Nations General Assembly debate on a resolution to condemn the Russian colonization of eastern Ukraine pivoted abruptly to South Asia on Wednesday as the permanent representative of Pakistan accused India of “modern-day colonialism” in the disputed region of Kashmir. India’s representative dismissed the complaints as “frivolous” and off-topic.
Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar on Tuesday defended his country’s friendly relations with Russia by reminding Western critics that Moscow was willing to supply India with arms at a time when the United States and its allies “saw a military dictatorship next to us as the preferred partner.”
Police in Uttar Pradesh, India, recently announced the arrests of 15 people related to a scam operation, allegedly run by a Chinese citizen, that used data pilfered from old memory cards and circuit boards to scam Indians into fake business “investments” and loans, India’s Times Now News reported on Tuesday.
Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia defended the referendums, claiming that more than 100 international observers from Italy, Germany, Venezuela, and Latvia who observed the voting recognized the outcomes as legitimate.
Apple is scaling back production of its new iPhones after an anticipated increase in demand failed to materialize, according to reports from Bloomberg.
Liz Truss’ plan to push for more immigration into Britain constitutes “betraying Brexit voting Tories”, Nigel Farage has said.
Members of the South Asian community in the multicultural city of Leicester are “living in fear” as violent clashes between Muslims and Hindus continue, according to a local official.
Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said at the United Nations on Saturday that his nation would not take sides in the Ukraine conflict following months of criticism for purchasing large amounts of Russian oil.
The U.S. government must end the “venomous nativism” of ordinary patriotic Americans by flooding it with tens of millions of immigrants, according to two immigrants, Indian-born Deepak Bhargava and South Korean-born Rich Stolz.
Riots between Muslims and Hindus in Britain have spread from Leicester to Smethwick – and may “spread all over Britain”, community leaders warn.
15 people have reportedly been arrested in the wake of sectarian riots between Muslims and Hindus in the British city of Leicester.
Mobs of Muslims and Hindus have clashed with police and each other in Leicester, England, with at least one Hindu temple vandalised.
A massive brawl erupted in the city of Kolkata, India on Tuesday, as thousands of Hindu nationalist demonstrators clashed with 6,500 riot police.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping will meet with his Russian ally Vladimir Putin during a visit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan that begins on Wednesday. The trip will mark Xi’s first journey beyond China’s borders since the beginning of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.
A bout of sectarian violence between the Muslim and Hindu communities in Leicestershire has seen police granted special powers.
On Thursday’s edition of NPR’s “Here and Now,” MSNBC host and NBC Business Correspondent Ali Velshi discussed price caps on Russian oil and said that regardless of whether there’s a cap, if China and India keep buying fuel from Russia,
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday commissioned India’s first indigenously constructed aircraft carrier, the INS Vikrant.
Authorities in Noida, India, used 8,100 pounds of explosives to detonate twin residential towers on Sunday after India’s Supreme Court ruled that they were illegally constructed, Reuters reported.
The Indian government’s representative office in Sri Lanka used the term “militarization” in a post on Twitter on Saturday to describe China’s recent actions in the Taiwan Strait, which separates the sovereign island nation of Taiwan from China’s southeastern coast, the Hindu reported on Sunday, noting that it was the first time New Delhi had used such strong rhetoric to refer to the China-Taiwan dispute.
MOSCOW (AP) – Russia said Monday it will launch sweeping war games drills in the country’s east that will involve forces from China – a show of increasingly close military ties between Moscow and Beijing amid tensions with the West over the Kremlin’s action in Ukraine.
T Raja Singh, a state lawmaker from the governing BJP party of India, was detained by police in the city of Hyderabad on Tuesday for “promoting enmity in the name of religion” by posting a video in which he referred to the child bride taken by Islam’s Muhammad.
Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar blamed the Chinese Communist Party on Sunday for tensions on the nations’ mutual border that led to a military defeat for Beijing in 2020, claiming China has continued to lack “respect” for agreed-upon limits to mass troop movements in the region.
A woman has been accused of slicing off her boyfriend’s genitals after he allegedly tried to rape her teenage daughter Wednesday in India.
The government of New Delhi, India’s national capital, recently reinforced a sanitary mask mandate for public spaces in an effort to contain a recent spike in the number of local Chinese coronavirus cases, India’s WION news website reported on Friday.
The Indian Air Force recently deployed a helicopter to fly the 14th Dalai Lama to India’s disputed border with China.
Soldiers of the U.S. Army will deploy to a region of northern India’s Uttarakhand state — located 60 miles from India’s disputed Himalayan border with China — in October to participate in an annual joint military exercise with the Indian Armed Forces called Yudh Abhyas, the U.S. Army Pacific confirmed to Japan’s Nikkei Asia on Wednesday.
Indian traders have reportedly been settling payments for Russian coal in currencies other than the U.S. dollar — including the Chinese yuan, the Hong Kong dollar, the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) dirham, and the euro — in an effort to skirt Western sanctions imposed on Moscow in recent months in response to its latest war with Ukraine, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
New Delhi is allegedly seeking ways to prevent Chinese smartphone manufacturers from selling their devices for less than 12,000 rupees ($150) within India as part of an effort to protect domestic technology companies struggling to compete with the cheap phone makers, Bloomberg reported on Monday citing people familiar with the matter.
(AFP) – A Russian former deputy premier was re-elected as head of international chess body FIDE by a landslide Sunday, seeing off a Ukrainian challenger who said the incumbent was part of Moscow’s “war machine”.
Climate change has impaired the ability of meteorologists to accurately predict severe weather events, according to the director of India Meteorological Department (IMD).
Saudi Arabia on Thursday announced record-high selling prices for crude oil to Asian buyers. The remarkably high increase of 50 cents per barrel was still lower than some forecasts, which anticipated up to $1.50 per barrel.
Indian Commerce Secretary B.V.R. Subrahmanyam predicted this week that New Delhi will conduct up to $9 billion worth of trade with Russia and Sri Lanka combined over the next two months, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
