India to US: Snooping unacceptable
In the first high-level formal diplomatic engagement between India and the US since the formation of a new government in Delhi, India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has conveyed concerns …
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US think tank launches India: 2020 to improve India-US ties
A top US think tank has launched a programme entitled “India: 2020” to identify policy priorities in the India-US strategic partnership and provide recommendations that can be translated into reality by …
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US disappointed with India’s WTO stance, but remain optimistic
The United States is “very disappointed” with India’s tough stance on multilateral trade negotiations in the World Trade Organisation, but remains optimistic that New Delhi will sign on to the …
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China’s interest in India’s infrastructure is opportunity and challenge
The BRICS decision to give all its members an equal stake in the New Development Bank should be welcomed. But let’s not have any illusion about what this means. China remains far …
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India-US Strategic Dialogue: Focus on the Big Picture
There were expectations that the new Modi Government will set out new policies on many fronts, including foreign policy and security arena. But starting from his swearing-in ceremony to the …
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Indians advised to leave violence-torn Libya
Amid escalating violence in Libya, India’s mission in Tripoli has advised all its nationals in the North African country to leave the strife-torn country using all available means. “In view …
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US needs to work harder to lift India ties: Kanwal Sibal
As India and the US hold their fifth strategic dialogue, Kanwal Sibal, well-known foreign policy analyst and a former foreign secretary of India, strikes a cautionary note. In this interview …
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Power sharing holds the Afghan peace balance
The political crisis that threatened to derail the Afghan presidential elections seems to have been settled for now. Both candidates, Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani, have agreed to an audit …
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Strategic Dialogue: The 4-5-6 of India-US relations
The “defining partnership of the 21st century” is poised for a new beginning as India and the US hold their first strategic dialogue this week after the installation of a new government in New Delhi. Re-energising the relationship, which is often seen by some to have plateaued after the high of the transformational civil nuclear deal of 2008, and mapping new frontiers of engagement will be the overarching focus of India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and US Secretary of State John Kerry when they hold full-spectrum talks in New Delhi July 31.
The governments come and go, but the people of the two countries will make sure that India and the US will remain robustly engaged democracies, rejuvenating each other’s society and system with ideas, initiative and innovations, fulfilling the “extraordinary promise” of what President Obama has famously called “the defining partnership of the 21st century.”
Kerry serenades Modi: New opportunities, new possibilities in India-US ties
Ahead of the fifth India-US Strategic Dialogue, US Secretary of State John Kerry has called for renewed dialogue with a new government in New Delhi and underlined the need to seize new opportunities and possibilities to deepen the indispensable partnership between the world’s largest democracies. “Now is the time to renew that dialogue with a new government, with a new set of opportunities, new possibilities. This is a potentially transformative moment in our partnership with India, and we’re determined to deliver on the strategic and historic opportunities that we can create together.”
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