Seeking to allay concerns in New Delhi over Washington’s expanding engagement with Islamabad, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday asserted that America’s relations with Pakistan would not come “at the expense” of its strategic alliance with India, stressing that the India-US partnership remains strong, steady and poised to deepen further in the years ahead.
For months, Washington and Tel Aviv projected the confrontation with Iran as a campaign designed to fundamentally alter the strategic balance in West Asia.
President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to pause “Project Freedom” barely 50 hours after launching it says less about diplomacy than about the changing nature of power in West Asia.
Team India allrounder Washington Sundar has been ruled out of the upcoming five-match T20I series against New Zealand as he is still recovering from a rib injury he suffered during the ODI series opener in Vadodara.
A sanctions bill moving through the US Congress would, if enacted, authorise punitive “secondary” trade measures ~ potentially including tariffs as high as 500 per cent ~ against countries that continue to buy Russian oil, gas, petroleum products or uranium.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, his US counterpart Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida could hold a trilateral summit in Washington as early as July, an official said here on Monday.
The manner in which Ukraine criticised a suggestion for mediation by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva ~ which was that a group of neutral nations come together to broker peace ~ by alleging he was giving equal weight to the victim and aggressor suggested Kyiv’s rigidity.
The complaint stated that the Protesters threatened and abused the Indian Ambassador to the USA, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, and the staff of the Indian embassy in Washington.
"Such activities only underscore the violent and anti-social tendencies of the so-called 'Khalistani protestors' and their supporters," the statement from the Indian embassy said.
Washington-based Indian journalist Lalit Jha was covering a pro-Khalistan protest outside the Indian Embassy on Saturday afternoon.
