Former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (D) was sworn in as U.S. ambassador to India on Friday after seven Republicans sided with Democrats in a vote this month to push his confirmation through the Senate.
A court in the Indian city of Surat sentenced opposition leader Rahul Gandhi to two years in prison on Thursday for defaming Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a 2019 speech. Gandhi could lose his seat in Congress over the conviction, seriously hindering his party’s hopes for beating Modi’s BJP party in the 2024 election.
The government of Saudi Arabia dramatically increased purchases of Russian diesel fuel this month, apparently for use at home while selling more expensive Saudi oil abroad, reports indicated this week.
U.S. News and World Report on Monday quoted sources who said the U.S. military provided India with intelligence that helped it repel a Chinese incursion in the Himalayas in late 2022.
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio made a surprise visit to Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv on Tuesday for talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Russia flew two nuclear-capable strategic bombers over the Sea of Japan on Tuesday in an apparent gesture of disapproval.
China’s regime-controlled news outlet condemned conservative Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio on Monday for daring to visit India while China’s dictator Xi Jinping began a trip to Russia, accusing Kishida of pursuing ambitions “too big for his boots” and lamenting that Kishida and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi were siphoning media attempt away from Moscow.
Windows at India´s High Commission in London were smashed and two security guards were slightly injured, police said Monday.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed his Japanese counterpart, Kishida Fumio, to New Delhi on Monday to discuss economic and security cooperation, timing the diplomatic event simultaneously with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping’s visit to Russia.
Amitabh Kant, India’s negotiator at the G20 summit, said on Wednesday that the world is too preoccupied with Russia’s war in Ukraine, and should “move on” to deal with issues like global poverty.
Indian technology minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar said on Thursday that Indian tech startups had over $1 billion worth of deposits in California’s Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) when the bank was shut down by regulators on March 10.
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published data on global arms transfers on Monday that found India remains the world’s largest importer of weapons, reaching a five-year high of 11% of all global imports.
The Senate confirmed former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (D) as President Joe Biden’s U.S. ambassador to India after seven Republicans voted with most Democrats on Wednesday to pass the vote.
India’s small SVC Co-Operative Bank spent the weekend scrambling to reassure depositors it has no connections whatsoever to the imploding Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) of California. In addition to some confusion over their similar names, SVC executives said “social media rumors” have been spreading that linked the two banks together and claimed SVC is also trembling on the verge of collapse.
Indian actor Ram Charan, who starred in the Oscar-winning historical action film “RRR,” thanked his unborn child during a red carpet interview on Sunday for bringing the movie “so much luck” during award season.
The Boeing Company is outsourcing nearly 700 white-collar American finance and human relations jobs to Bengaluru, India, while securing millions more in United States tax dollars through congressionally-approved spending packages to support Ukraine in its war with Russia.
Taiwan-based Apple supplier Foxconn Technology signed a record-breaking deal with India’s southern state of Telangana to manufacture electronics on Thursday.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told an assembly of top diplomats from the member countries of the G20 on Thursday that “global governance has failed” in its missions of preventing future wars and getting countries to cooperate on joint challenges.
The meeting of G20 foreign ministers hosted by India on Thursday ended in disarray, with the customary joint communique scuttled by “divergences that could not be reconciled,” according to Indian Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar.
The largest producer of whiskey in India, Allied Blenders and Distillers (ABD), began unprecedented liquor exports to Russia last month and is preparing a formal debut in that nation’s spirits market, multiple reports on Wednesday revealed.
India’s delicate balancing act between the Western world and Russia was put to another tightrope test on Wednesday, as both U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in New Delhi for this week’s G20 meeting.
Asked about workers who don’t speak the language when they come to Germany, Chancellor Scholz said it should not be seen as a hurdle if people arrive in the country speaking English first and then acquire German later on.
To be a “leading power,” India is going to have to become significantly more influential in Latin America, Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar asserted in a speech on Wednesday in which he revealed New Delhi’s plans to greatly enhance commercial and geopolitical ties to the region.
Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, the country’s top diplomat, celebrated India’s friendly relationships with all major powers in an interview Tuesday – markedly omitting China and emphasizing that tension between the two countries is growing because China has repeatedly violated India’s border.
The United States showed off its F-35 fighter, B-1B bomber, and other advanced warplanes at an air show in Bengaluru this week to tempt India away from its long-standing, and increasingly awkward, reliance on Russian military hardware.
Indian Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur announced on Wednesday that India will add seven new battalions of border police along its boundaries with China, a sign of growing tension along a border that has already seen several violent clashes.
Officials from India´s Income Tax department began conducting searches Tuesday at the BBC´s offices in the capital, New Delhi.
India’s Economic Times, citing anonymous sources, reported this weekend that Pakistan “has been supplying arms to Ukraine on a regular basis” and has prepared a new shipment of rockets to the country with the help of Germany.
Mining authorities in India announced on Thursday that they had discovered potentially as much as 5.9 million tonnes of lithium deposits in northern Jammu and Kashmir, a potential gamechanger in the race to dominate the electric vehicle battery industry.
India has found a way to profit greatly from Russia’s sanctions situation, purchasing cheap Russian crude and using its tremendous refining capacity to sell America and Europe gasoline and diesel, Bloomberg News revealed on Sunday.
The Press Trust of India (PTI) reported Thursday that left-wing American President Joe Biden extended a state visit invitation to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Biden administration on Tuesday rolled out a plan called the U.S.-India Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET), which includes a proposal for India to begin producing military jet engines designed by General Electric.
Moscow waded into the controversy over a BBC documentary of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, siding with Modi and his supporters by denouncing the documentary as part of the “information war” waged by Western media outlets against Russia as well as India.
Multiple leaks of police research papers and opinions from a recent law enforcement conference in India revealed that regional officials in Ladakh, one of several border regions with China, expect “frequent” violent exchanges with that country as a result of Beijing’s growing belligerence there, Reuters reported on Friday.
India used its 74th Republic Day celebration to showcase domestically-produced weapons, even replacing the old British guns used for the traditional 21-gun salute with indigenously-produced 105mm field guns.
Despite being a self-described “free speech absolutist,” Elon Musk’s Twitter has reportedly caved to censorship pressure from a foreign government. Musk has complied with requests from the Indian government to remove a BBC documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The navies of India and France ended planned joint exercises on Tuesday in which French officials expressed interest in expanding the country’s sales of military equipment to New Delhi — a clear attempt at dethroning India’s current top weapons supplier, Russia.
The Indian government is extremely unhappy with a BBC documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi – so unhappy that the government cut power to a university attempting to screen the film and ordered social media giants Twitter and YouTube to block attempts to share it.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Monday called for “immediate and coordinated action” after more than 300 children in seven countries were killed by contaminated cough syrup last year.
The U.S. is already facing a shortage of prescription drugs, and industry analysts said this week it could become much worse due to China’s massive coronavirus outbreak, which is both increasing Chinese drug consumption and reducing output from manufacturers.
Laid-off American professionals, who say they were replaced with foreign H-1B visa workers imported from India, scored a $4.65 million settlement against their former employer last week, Indian outsourcing firm Larsen & Toubro Infotech (LTI).
