International Relations
Bilateral ties, multilateral forums, treaties and India's foreign policy
India's support measures in auto, renewable energy sectors fully compliant with WTO norms: Official
The WTO Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) established a panel to hear China's complaint (DS642) against India's support measures in the automobile and renewable ...
Indian exporters report rise in US enquiries after court verdict on tariffs
Indian exporters reported a surge in enquiries from US buyers following a landmark US Supreme Court ruling on February 21, 2026, which struck down President ...
Anthropic digs in heels in dispute with Pentagon, source says
Anthropic, the AI safety company behind the Claude large language model, refused a Pentagon demand to allow unrestricted use of its AI models for military pu...
Powerful Nvidia AI chip not yet sold in China, says US official
A US official confirmed that Nvidia's most powerful AI chip — intended for frontier AI training workloads — has not been sold to China, despite complex and s...
What to expect on the defence front as Modi embarks on Israel visit, second since 2017
Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Israel on February 25-26, 2026 — his second visit since 2017 and the first Indian PM to address the Israeli Knesset (par...
Modi in Tel Aviv: PM offers condolences to Oct 7 victims, says India stands firmly with Israel
Prime Minister Modi visited Tel Aviv as part of his state visit to Israel (February 25-26, 2026), offering condolences to victims of the October 7, 2023 Hama...
PM Modi, Netanyahu discuss wide range of issues aimed at boosting bilateral ties
Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a state visit to Israel from February 25-26, 2026, on the invitation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — India's first p...
There can never be a ‘G2’ with US & China—Chinese political scientist Yan Xuetong at Delhi lecture
Prominent Chinese political scientist Yan Xuetong, speaking at the India International Centre in New Delhi on February 24, 2026, argued that a bilateral G2 p...
Pakistan wary of militant attacks after Afghanistan air strikes
Pakistan launched airstrikes on militant camps and hideouts in Afghanistan's Nangarhar, Paktika, and Khost provinces in late February 2026, targeting positio...
What does the India-Brazil critical minerals MoU mean for the two countries?
India and Brazil signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on rare earths and critical minerals during Brazilian President Lula da Silva's state visit to In...
U.N. Security Council sanctions four Sudan commanders over El-Fasher atrocities
The United Nations Security Council imposed targeted sanctions (asset freezes, travel bans) on four senior commanders of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) f...
Piyush Goyal says India will resume US trade talks once tariff clarity emerges
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal stated that India will resume trade talks with the United States once clarity emerges on the new US tariff regime...
US Levels New Sanctions on Iran’s Missile Program, Shadow Fleet
The Trump administration imposed a new tranche of sanctions on more than 30 entities accused of enabling Iran's ballistic missile programme, drone production...
Iran rejects U.S. claims on missile programme as 'big lies'
US President Trump, in his 2026 State of the Union address (February 24, 2026), reiterated that Iran would never be allowed to build a nuclear weapon, claimi...
Goal is to remove fear of ‘tariff wall’, but can’t rush: Nirmala Sitharaman
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman articulated the government's approach to tariff rationalisation in the Union Budget 2026-27: the goal is to reduce the fe...
Legislation on Chagos deal paused for discussions with U.S., says U.K. Minister
The UK government has paused legislation required to operationalise a treaty signed in May 2025 to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago to Maurit...
Can India buy Russian oil after US Supreme Court order? Here's what report suggests
The US Supreme Court on February 20, 2026 ruled (6-3) in *Learning Resources Inc. v. Trump* that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) does...
The evolving nature of trade agreements
A recent analysis argues that the bilateral trade agreements being pursued by the Trump administration in 2025-26 constitute a new, legally ambiguous categor...
India now in 'middle ground' after fresh US tariffs but any hike will erode its advantages: UBI Report
A report by Union Bank of India (UBI) assessed that India occupies a relative "middle ground" in the new US tariff landscape after Section 122 of the Trade A...
Nepal's soyoil exports to India jump tenfold on duty free access
Nepal's soybean oil exports to India surged more than tenfold in 2025, reaching 694,153 metric tonnes — up from just 65,138 tonnes in the prior year — primar...