Arul Louis

Arul Louis

About Arul Louis

The author a New York-based journalist, is a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Society for Policy Studies

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US to stand by India in face of China's aggressive action

In the face of China's aggressive actions against India, the US will stand with New Delhi, according to State Department spokesperson Ned Price

Blinken, Jaishankar discuss Myanmar, regional and Quad issues in renewed call

India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken have had renewed discussion on the situation in Myanmar and cooperation between the two countries in the Indo-Pacific region

Indian-American cabinet nominee apologises for tweets about Republicans, recalls difficult childhood

When she came up before a Senate panel, Neera Tanden, the Indian-American nominee to US President Joe Biden's cabinet, apologised to Republican senators for insulting them with venomous tweets

A 233-year-old impeachment of Bengal governor-general figures in Trump trial!

Warren Hastings, the 18th-century British governor-general of Bengal, figured intriguingly in the US Senate trial when the prosecutors cited his impeachment by the British House of Commons after he had left his Indian position as a precedent for trying Donald Trump who is no longer the president

Cancer drugmaker in India hit with $50M fine, forfeiture in US for irregularities

A cancer drugmaker in India has admitted to destroying and concealing records before an inspection of its plant in West Bengal by US authorities and agreed to pay $50 million in fines and forfeitures, according to the Justice Department

Biden calls Modi, to work closely on terrorism, Indo-Pacific, Covid, climate change, promoting democracy

US President Joe Biden and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi committed themselves to work closely on a range of issues from fighting terrorism and upholding territorial integrity to defeating the COVID-19 pandemic, rebuilding the global economy and promoting democratic values, according to the White House

Biden cancels Trump's nomination of Indian American as judge

US President Joe Biden has cancelled the nomination of Vijay Shanker to be a judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in Washington

Biden names China as main adversary, but silent on India, Indo-Pacific

Biden's predecessor Donald Trump had made the Indo-Pacific region, the main theatre of confrontation, a focus of his strategy on China with the Quad – US, India, Japan and Australia – as an emerging force there, an alliance of democracies bookended by the US and India, writes Arul Louis for South Asia Monitor 

India warns against terrorists getting chemical weapons of mass destruction

India has warned against chemical weapons of mass destruction falling into the hands of terrorists noting the reports of the resurgence of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria

Freedom of expression is a fundamental universal freedom: UN spokesperson

Freedom of expression is a fundamental right, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric has said as a general enunciation of a principle in regard to India