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
The new wave of COVID-19 infections sweeping parts of India is “worrisome” and threatens the 12.5 per cent growth projection, an International Monetary Fund expert for the region said on Tuesday
UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore has called for simplifying intellectual property rights governing COVID-19 vaccines in order to make them universally available but expressed reservations about completely suspending the patents during the pandemic as demanded by India and South Africa
Emerging from the COVID-19 disruptions, India's economic growth is projected to reach the historically high level of 12.5 per cent this fiscal year and also regain its status as the world's fastest-growing economy, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reported on Tuesday
US President Joe Biden has appointed a Pakistani American, Zahid N. Quraishi, to be a federal judge. He would become the nation's first Muslim federal judge if confirmed by the Senate
“The (India) government continued taking steps to restore normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir by gradually lifting some security and communications restrictions,” according to the State Department's annual human rights report
