ASEAN lauds India's steadfast support, community-building efforts 

IANS | August 6, 2025 2:33 PM

Jakarta, Aug 6 (IANS) India's steadfast support for ASEAN Centrality and community-building efforts, as well as its active participation in ASEAN-led mechanisms and fora, came in for huge praise from ASEAN Secretary General Kao Kim Hourn during his meeting with newly-appointed Indian Ambassador Srinivas Gotru, on Wednesday.

EAM Jaishankar, German MP discuss bilateral cooperation

IANS | August 5, 2025 8:23 PM

New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar held a meeting with German MP Jurgen Hardt in New Delhi on Tuesday, discussing bilateral cooperation and various other global developments.

Trump risks tanking India-US relationship built over 25 years: Report

IANS | August 5, 2025 7:53 PM

Washington, Aug 4 (IANS) With his actions in the recent weeks, US President Donald Trump is now in the process of tanking the India-US relationship built over 25 years. His actions will affect the bilateral ties after more than 20 years of bipartisan effort to transform the relationship between India and the US, including during his own first term, US-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace detailed in a report on Tuesday.

Medicine import tariffs may go up to 250 pc: Trump

IANS | August 5, 2025 7:16 PM

Washington, Aug 5 (IANS) US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that upcoming tariffs on imported pharmaceuticals could eventually rise as high as 250 per cent, as part of his push to bring drug manufacturing back to the United States.

Philippines President lauds India's expanding defence footprint, Brahmos project

IANS | August 5, 2025 3:51 PM

New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) Philippines President Ferdinand R Marcos Jr. on Tuesday expressed readiness to work with India towards a free and open Indo-Pacific while expressing satisfaction over the rapid pace of the Philippines ongoing defence modernization and the expanding capabilities and footprint of India's indigenous defence industry as a partner in this undertaking that is exemplified by the Brahmos project.

India involved in US trade deal discussions to ensure fairness, national security: Ministers

IANS | August 5, 2025 2:39 PM

New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) As US President Donald Trump threatened hefty tariffs, India remains actively involved in the discussions on the Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA), which aims at expanding trade and investment and deepening the US-India trade relationship to promote growth that ensures fairness, national security and job creation -- especially in labour-intensive sector including agricultural products, the Parliament was informed on Tuesday.