Calling partnership between India and US “most consequential,” US President Joe Biden on Thursday (local time) said that, together both nations are unlocking a shared future with unlimited potential. Addressing a joint press conference today, the US President also underlined how trade has doubled between the two countries over the past decade to more than $191 billion.
Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming state visit later this month, a bipartisan duo of senior US Senators known to be longtime friends of India have expressed disappointment that India “took a pass” on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and did not take a position behoving a major power.
“I would like to see India as one of its (America’s) strongest allies. And I am going to meet (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi later this month and the thing that I am going to stress with him is that this non-alignment policy needs to be gotten rid of. We need to really focus on a strong, trusting relationship with US. That will be good for the people of India and the US,” Congressman Shri Thanedar told indica in an exclusive interview.
The US-India partnership is on a steady upward trajectory as a result of Washington and New Delhi making a concerted effort to move past Cold-War differences and toward advancing Indo-Pacific synergies, according to an article in Comparative Connections, a triannual e-Journal of bilateral relations in the Indo-Pacific.
Vedant Patel, Principal Deputy Spokesperson for the US Department of State, on Monday highlighted the deepening partnership between Washington and New Delhi ahead of the upcoming visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The US snooping on India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval has been revealed in the leak of a Washington document on talks between him and Russia’s Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met for the first time since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February. The two had last met in January 2022 as the drums of war were reaching a crescendo.
India has once again abstained from voting in a UN General Assembly resolution that condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which started a year ago. The motion was backed by 141 nations with 32 abstaining and seven, including Russia, voting against it. India reiterated its position on the invasion, saying that peaceful dialogue was the only way out.
US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Karen Donfried on Wednesday said the US is comfortable with the approach India has taken in buying oil from Russia and added that her country is not looking to sanction New Delhi as the relations between the two countries are most consequential.
Commenting on Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Zardari-Bhutto’s vicious attacks on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said Washington does not want a “war of words” between New Delhi and Islamabad, but constructive dialogue.
Even as Russia and Ukraine faced off in the UN Security Council accusing each other of not wanting to settle their conflict through negotiations, India has reminded them of its call for dialogue and diplomacy and offered to support such efforts.
United Nations, Oct 1 (IANS) India’s abstentions on Western-sponsored resolutions on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine don’t weigh on India-US ties or are seen as neutrality, Permanent Representative Linda Thomas-Greenfield has indicated.
Mayank Chhaya- If the tone of Pakistan’s 34-year-old Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari during an interaction at the Wilson Center in Washington DC on September 27th is any indication Islamabad may not be particularly eager to revive any semblance of normalcy with India just yet. Bhutto Zardari went out of his way to highlight the 2002 […]
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The 75th anniversary of the independence of India ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ celebrated on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, September 21, 2022, drew key US Senators and Congressmen who stressed the need to strengthen the Indo-US ties and lauded the contributions of physicians of Indian origin and the larger Indian American community.
Mayank Chhaya- For anyone paying attention, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres’ opening address to the General Assembly high-level general debate, in New York on Tuesday was stunning in its dire tone and deeply worrisome in what it foreshadows for humanity. Guterres starkly laid out a slew of crises that he said, “threaten the very future […]
On the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand on September 16, PM Modi had said “today’s era isn’t of war” while emphasizing the need to find ways to address the problems of food, fuel security and fertilizers. French President Emmanuel Macron and US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Tuesday welcomed PM Modi’s statement to Putin on Ukraine.
Though several Foreign Headquartered Companies (FHCs) in deep tech have R&D operations in India, the real economic and strategic strength of the country also needs deep tech firms with headquarters in India, Paulraj said.
“I am surprised, shocked, puzzled and perplexed by the allegation from a high-level Ukraine government agency,” Pitroda said. The report also names two more Indians – former diplomat P.S. Raghavan and a veteran journalist Saeed Naqvi. The report also names former Democrat Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.
The United States House of Representatives on Thursday approved legislation that recommends an India-specific waiver under the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), thus deepening defense ties between both the democracies and help deter aggressors like China.
Senior United States government officials have begun talks with New Delhi on how Russian oil price caps work, National Security Advisor (NSA) Jake Sullivan said Tuesday as he described India as a “key consumer” of Russian oil.
June 14: Downloading the torrent file for the latest Netflix release while sitting in a comfortable bed anywhere in India becomes all the more difficult, as more and more virtual network providers pull out of the country to avoid the latest diktat of the Narendra Modi government, share data of VPN users or face a ban. The move strikes at the core of VPNs: protect user privacy.
In the mid-1980s Khalistanis brazenly set up a terrorist training camp in the US and cooked up an elaborate plot to assassinate Rajiv Gandhi and Bhajan Lal, who was then the Haryana chief minister, when they visited the country.
Ritu Jha- Earlier this month, the Bechtel Conference Center, policymakers, directors, scholars, and entrepreneurs from the US and India came together for the first South Asia Initiative at Stanford University’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC). They were there to consider defense capacity in the face of growing competition, disruption, defense innovation, and military relationships with technology. The day-long conference, held May 6 and themed “A […]
Ritu Jha- The first post-pandemic West Coast Summit of the U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) drew entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and policymakers from India and the U.S. at Rosewood Sand Hill Hotel in Menlo Park, May 9. But the question that dominated the summit was the Russia-Ukraine war and where India stands between the U.S. and […]
