India us ties

It is expected that the Industrial Security Annex (ISA), which aims to shore up defence cooperation, will be signed during the upcoming dialogue. The ISA will allow the US government and American original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to share classified... read more

Devyani Khobragade, a diplomat at the Indian consulate in New York, was arrested on December 12, in 2013. She was charged with providing false information in the visa application for a domestic help she was bringing from India. read more

Admiral Philips Davidson said the inaugural 2+2 Ministerial in New Delhi last September and signing of the COMCASA in 2018 were pivotal moments in the bilateral relationship read more

State department spokesperson Heather Nauert said “it’s not helpful” to note India plans to continue buying Iranian oil and the decision to purchase Russian S-400 air defence systems, both of which are subject to secondary American sanctions. read more

The Donald Trump administration on Thursday sanctioned a Chinese military entity for buying Russian defence equipment. read more

Attacking the WTO, US President Donald Trump said he thinks that the World Trade Organization was probably the worst of all. read more

The US has said that countries need to reduce the import of oil from Iran to zero, though they “would consider waivers” and from the sanctions that are planned to begin on November 4 read more

High on the two-plus-two agenda will be synchronization of the two countries’ views on the Indo-Pacific and stability of Afghanistan. read more

Officials said US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defence Secretary Jim Mattis will meet their Indian counterparts Sushma Swaraj and Nirmala Sitharaman on September 6. read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also meet the two US principals in case Washington agrees to New Delhi as the venue for the dialogue. The high-level talks, which were set to take place in Washington on July 6, were deferred by the US. read more

The US recognised India as a “Major Defence Partner” in 2016, a designation that allows India to buy more advanced and sensitive technologies from America at par with that of its closest allies and partners. read more

At the annual security conference in Singapore, Prime Minister Narendra Modi navigated carefully between military powers China and the US. read more