Hindustan Times spoke to a key CCS member, Indian and Pakistani diplomats, office of the US NSA, and intelligence officials to piece together some of the events on the day the fragile and uneasy relationship between the two neighbours almost reached... read more

The US support to India was expressed by American NSA John Bolton during a meeting with Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale on Wednesday. read more

The United States continued to mount pressure on Pakistan Monday calling upon it on to take “meaningful steps” against terrorism. read more

Bolton told CBS’s “Face the Nation” that Trump’s failure to obtain commitments from Pyongyang on destroying its nuclear capability should be seen as “a success, defined as the president protecting and advancing American national interests.” read more

PM Modi said he could understand public anguish over the attack, carried out by a 22-year-old Pulwama resident who drove a car packed with explosives into a CRPF bus. read more

The US has backed India’s right to defend itself against cross-border terrorism in the aftermath of Thursday’s Pulwama terror attack claimed by Jaish-e-Mohammed, even as the two sides pledged to cooperate to eradicate terrorist safe havens in Pakist... read more

The United States continued to press Pakistan on terrorism in the aftermath of the Pulwama attack and signalled its recognition of India’s right to self-defense. read more

US National Security Adviser John Bolton told his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval on Friday that America supports India’s right to self-defense. read more

Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump had a brief meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit on Friday read more

Melania’s demand that deputy national security advisor Mira Ricardel step aside gave the White House a shake. Donald Trump’s entire leadership style is based on him being the center of attention. Suddenly, Washington’s focus was on his wife and her declaration... read more

US National Security Advisor John Bolton said that the arguments for China joining the World Trade Organisation was that it would become a more market-oriented rules-based society. read more

President Donald Trump held a summit with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki and then issued Putin an invitation to visit Washington in the autumn. But that was postponed after Trump faced allegations of cozying up to the Kremlin. read more

The latest American threat comes despite the Narendra Modi government conveying to the Trump administration that India is a fit case for a presidential waiver on deal with Russia and the sanctions on trade with Iran. read more

NSA Ajit Doval cited India’s 70-year history of military hardware acquisitions from Russia. More than 60% of Indian military inventory is from Russia. read more

Describing it “as a very broad-based discussion”, the sources said that Doval and the three top Trump administration officials talked about the “future direction” of the strategic relationship and identified areas of co-operation. read more