India and UK bolster Comprehensive Strategic Partnership after landmark trade deal

IANS | June 3, 2025 4:24 PM

London/New Delhi, June 3 (IANS) Oliver Robbins, Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), met India's Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, in New Delhi on Tuesday for the annual UK-India Foreign Office Consultations as both countries reviewed progress across their Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.

Don't want to recapture Pakistan, we need peace: Shashi Tharoor in Brazil

IANS | June 3, 2025 9:05 AM

Brasilia, June 3 (IANS) The all-party Indian parliamentary delegation currently visiting Brazil held what has been described as an "excellent" and "highly productive" series of meetings with top Brazilian officials, focusing on India's policy of zero tolerance towards terrorism and the significance of Operation Sindoor.

'Trust Trump', says top US trade negotiator to India

Yashwant Raj | June 3, 2025 6:48 AM

Washington, June 3 (IANS) US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who is one of the Trump administration's key trade negotiators, has urged India to trust the US President Donald Trump, saying he will "take care" of India's interests.

Kids found a ‘grandfather’ in the Prime Minister, says Usha Vance

Yashwant Raj | June 3, 2025 6:03 AM

Washington, June 3 (IANS) US Second Lady Usha Vance has said that this was a time of opportunity in the bilateral relationship with India and spoke effusively of her recent visit to India along with her husband, Vice-President J.D. Vance, and their three children for whom, she added, it was a "mindblowing" experience.