While the long-awaited trade agreement appears to be off the table during President Donald Trump's visit to India, “significant commercial” deals are in the offing, according to a senior administration official
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Trump to meet Indian investors in US
Amid the pomp and ceremony of an official visit next week, US President Donald Trump will take time to meet with Indian companies investing in manufacturing in the US, which will showcase India's contribution to his grand plan of revitalising his country's industrial base, a core of element in his election platform
Trump visit may be high on optics, low on substance
The visit will be high on optics and low on substance as both Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi seek relief from domestic pressures and revalidation before their citizens, writes Arul Louis for South Asia Monitor
Trump to Modi: 'You have 1.5 billion people; I have 350 million. You have an advantage (on Facebook)!'
US President Donald Trump, who is tangling with India trade, now thinks Prime Minister Narendra Modi has an unfair advantage over him on Facebook because of his country's huge population
‘India bigger threat than China on climate change’
Michael Bloomberg, the aspirant for the Democratic Party nomination for president, has said that India as a big problem for climate change than China and drew immediate media criticism
Guterres impressed by interfaith harmony at Kartarpur gurdwara
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that his visit to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartapur was a “very emotional moment
Security Council resolutions on Kashmir need to be implemented, says UN Chief
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that the Security Council resolutions on Kashmir have to implemented – and although he did not make a reference to it, the main resolution requires Pakistan to withdraw from the areas it occupies
South Asia on the brink of locus invasion: FAO official
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has issued a warning about twin invasion of desert locusts coming to India and Pakistan starting in May
Was India's controversial citizenship act modeled on US legislation?
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar missed an opportunity at the news conference with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the two other participants at last month’s 2+2 strategic dialogue to clearly explain India’s goals behind the CAA in the rare opportunity he got to make the case in public before the US media, writes Arul Louis for South…
Why Pakistan got trapped in its Kashmir plebiscite demand
The reason Pakistan was afraid of the plebiscite was that the raiders and troops it had sent in “had indulged in loot, arson, rape, and murder in the State. Scores of villages and towns were destroyed and hundreds of thousands of people uprooted, writes Arul Louis for South Asia Monitor
