India-US Relations

From relief package to GST reforms: Inside Modi’s plan to counter Donald Trump’s 50% tariffs

Donald Trump’s 50 per cent tariffs on India are in effect posing a huge challenge to Indian exporters. However, PM Modi has vowed to protect the interests of Indians, refusing to relent under American pressure. The Centre has drawn up multiple ways, including support measures of Rs 25,000 crore and GST reforms, to counter the impact of the US levies

‘Your purchases killed civilians’: Who is Lindsey Graham, the US senator slamming India over Russian oil?

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham has become one of Donald Trump’s closest allies, backing the US president’s 50 per cent tariffs on Indian exports. Once a fierce critic of Trump, Graham is now championing sweeping sanctions against nations trading with Russia, including India

Trump tariffs: What happened when US sanctioned India in 1998? Déjà vu for New Delhi?

As Donald Trump’s 50 per cent tariffs on Indian goods take effect, echoes of 1998 resurface when Washington imposed sweeping sanctions after India’s nuclear tests at Pokhran. Then, India endured the Glenn Amendment restrictions and now, it faces the sharpest tariff escalation yet

Trump’s 50% tariffs to take effect tomorrow: Why India refuses to cower to US pressure

‘No matter how much pressure comes, we will keep increasing our strength to withstand,’ said PM Narendra Modi just hours before Donald Trump’s whopping 50 per cent tariff comes into effect tomorrow (August 27). But what’s behind India’s defiant stance?

Explained: India’s decision to hire second lobbying firm in US and its connection to Trump

Days ahead of the US imposing a secondary tariff of 25 per cent on India, the embassy in Washington, DC, has hired a second lobbying firm, Mercury Public Affairs. This firm has close ties to American President Donald Trump; it once employed current White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. Will it be able to woo the American leader?

Musk once called him a 'snake': Who is Sergio Gor, Trump's pick for US envoy to India?

US President Donald Trump has nominated longtime aide Sergio Gor as the next US ambassador to India, alongside appointing him special envoy for South and Central Asia. The move comes amid strained ties over tariffs and India’s Russian oil imports

Amid tariff dispute, Trump rules out further trade talks: A timeline of souring India-US ties

After imposing a total of 50 per cent tariffs on India, Trump has now ruled out a possibility of holding negotiations on a potential trade deal. This marks a new low in India-US ties

Reagan warned against tariffs, Trump weaponises them: The high cost of short-sighted trade wars

Both Republicans, while Reagan embraced global trade with wisdom, Trump wields tariffs with reckless emotion

From ‘friend’ to ‘dead’ economy: How did India and the US get here?

Donald Trump is mincing no words when it comes to India. The US president has launched a tirade against New Delhi — he first announced 25 per cent tariffs on the country, then sanctioned six oil firms and even called it a ‘dead economy’. This is a new twist in relations as the two nations try to hammer out a trade deal

FirstUp: India's chief negotiator joins India-US trade talks in Washington, and other news today

India's Chief Negotiator and Special Secretary in the Department of Commerce, Rajesh Agarwal, will be in Washington today to participate in the ongoing India-US trade talks. A court hearing on the release of the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, will take place in Tennessee's Nashville