The India-US climate partnership launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Joe Biden aims to show the world how to combine rapid action against climate change with economic development, according to a joint statement by the two countries
Virtually declining India’s requests to lift the ban on export of raw materials to meet the country’s anticipated COVID-19 vaccine shortage, the US politely said that it has to first to take care of the requirements of its own people
Warning that the COVID-19 pandemic is a grim reminder of the dangers of climate change, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced a global initiative in cooperation with the US to mobilise investments for the greening of the world and promote collaboration to fight global warming
Indian American civil rights lawyer Vanita Gupta has been confirmed as the US associate attorney-general with the help of a breakaway Republican senator, overcoming stiff opposition from conservatives who accused the nominee of espousing “radical” policies
The US will maintain counter-terrorism capabilities after pulling its troops out of Afghanistan, according to Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar have agreed that New Delhi and Washington will coordinate efforts to promote stability in Afghanistan, from where the US and NATO will be withdrawing their troops, according to State Department Spokesperson Ned Price
President Joe Biden's spokesperson Jen Psaki has refused to say if the US will allow the export of COVID-19 vaccine raw materials to India, a shortage that could impact global supply, or set a timeline for dealing with the requests for relaxing the vaccine patent rights
Declaring that the Quad “has never been stronger,” the US and Japan have reiterated their commitment to work with India and Australia to build a free and “thriving” Indo-Pacific where, Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Sugo warned, the “security environment has become increasingly severe.”
Biden, who is trying to draw India closer on the strategic front in the Indo-Pacific also wants to increase its involvement in Afghanistan, writes Arul Louis for South Asia Monitor
India has been invited to an Afghanistan peace conference in Turkey to back up the slowed down negotiations in Qatar between the Taliban and the Kabul government ahead of a delayed US withdrawal from that country, according to diplomatic sources
