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India used a regional security meeting in the Philippines to press its argument that countries which fund or shelter armed groups should face no tolerance from the rest of the world, and said the United States had reaffirmed its support for India against cross-border terrorism Image Via: @SecWar on X India’s defence minister, Rajnath Singh, met his American, Japanese, Singaporean and South Korean counterparts in a single day on the margins of the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus in Cebu. In the meeting with US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, the two reviewed a ten-year defence framework agreed between the countries and discussed quicker technology transfer, closer integration of defence industries and the security of supply chains. According to India’s defence ministry, Singh called for an uncompromising approach towards states that support, train or finance armed groups, and Hegseth reaffirmed American support for India against cross-border terrorism. No American account of ...

Jaishankar told the General Assembly that Bharat's right to self-defence against terrorism 'will be exercised', in a speech that also put the Gulf shipping crisis at the centre of India's case for a reordered world Screengrab of UN address; Via: @sidhant on X India's external affairs minister warned the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday that his country would exercise its right to defend itself against terrorism, and that existing understandings with a neighbour he did not name could be reopened. "Yesterday, a serial practitioner of terrorism misrepresented facts before this Assembly," S Jaishankar told the general debate at the assembly's 81st session in New York. Arguments had been invoked, he said, to normalise terrorism and claim immunity from its consequences. "That will not stand." He did not name Pakistan, whose prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, had addressed the assembly the previous day. But the reference was unmistakable, ...

 The 15-nation Caribbean Community has decided to support India's candidature for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council for the 2028-29 term, India's foreign ministry said, in the clearest outcome yet from a week of Global South diplomacy at the UN General Assembly. The decision was conveyed at the India-CARICOM foreign ministers' meeting in New York on 23 September, held on the margins of the assembly's 81st session. India's external affairs minister, S Jaishankar, co-chaired it with Melvin Bouva, Suriname's minister of foreign affairs, international business and cooperation. Jaishankar thanked the group and said India would be a strong voice of the Global South. Image Source: @DrSJaishankar Foreign ministers from Barbados, Dominica, the Bahamas, Guyana, Jamaica, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Haiti, St Lucia, St Kitts and Nevis, and Antigua and Barbuda attended, along with Grenada's finance minister, a ...

India, the European Union and five other initial co-sponsors issued a joint declaration on Monday pledging to strengthen international cooperation and reform multilateral institutions as they warned of growing conflict, polarisation and pressure on international law. The declaration, titled A Joint Commitment to Multilateralism, International Law, Peace and Prosperity , names Australia, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, the European Union, India and Kenya as its initial co-sponsors. It commits the signatories to work together on peace, sustainable development, human rights and shared prosperity. Image from UNHighLevelWeek: Via: @DrSJaishankar The signatories expressed concern about violations of international law and the increasing use of coercion, protectionism and threats or force. They also warned that economic interdependence was being used as a source of leverage, disrupting trade, supply chains, investment and development finance. The declaration did not name any country in connecti...

Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar joined the inaugural Partners for Multilateralism, International Law, Peace and Prosperity summit in New York during a series of meetings on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations General Assembly. Image via: @DrSJaishankar In the first meeting of the Visegrad Group and India in a foreign ministers’ format, the two sides agreed to hold annual meetings of their foreign ministers and an annual business forum, Jaishankar said. He also listed plans for closer cooperation in technology, research, education and defence, as well as cultural exchanges and support for multilateralism. The Visegrad Group comprises Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.  After that meeting, Jaishankar shared a statement by Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Blanár supporting India’s inclusion as a permanent member of the UN Security Council. Jaishankar separately said he and French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot had discussed Security Council reform, the war...

India's external affairs minister, S Jaishankar, inaugurated a maternal and child hospital and a bridge in eastern Bhutan and laid the foundation stone for a hydropower project in the north of the country on Wednesday, the first day of a two-day official visit. Jaishankar is visiting Bhutan on 16 and 17 September at the invitation of the country's minister of foreign affairs and external trade, DN Dhungyel, according to a statement issued in New Delhi on 16 September. Image Source: @DrSJaishankar on X The statement said Jaishankar would hold bilateral talks with Dhungyel, have a royal audience with Bhutan's king, and call on Bhutan's prime minister. It described the visit as in keeping with the tradition of regular high-level exchanges between the two countries, and as intended to strengthen their close ties of friendship and cooperation. Jaishankar arrived in Paro and was welcomed by Dhungyel, he shared in a post on X. He later met Dhungyel in Bumthang, where the tw...

India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will undertake a three-day official visit to Germany from April 21 to 23, aimed at strengthening the India–Germany strategic defence partnership through expanded industrial collaboration, military engagement and cooperation in emerging technologies. File Photo Via: Rajnath Singh Singh is scheduled to hold bilateral talks with German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius and other senior government leaders, with discussions set to focus on enhancing defence industrial cooperation, deepening military-to-military engagements, and exploring opportunities in domains such as cyber security, artificial intelligence and drone technologies. According to an official statement issued on Saturday, the visit is expected to see the signing of a Defence Industrial Cooperation Roadmap, alongside an implementing arrangement for cooperation in training related to United Nations peacekeeping operations, in the presence of both defence ministers. The visit will also ser...

India’s Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan on Sunday held bilateral discussions with Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Colombo, as part of his ongoing two-day official visit — the first such bilateral visit by an Indian Vice-President to Sri Lanka. Image Via: MEA India The meeting took place at the Presidential Secretariat, where both sides held what officials described as “productive discussions” focused on deepening multifaceted India–Sri Lanka ties anchored in shared history and cultural linkages. India reaffirmed its commitment to its “Neighbourhood First” policy and emphasised expanding cooperation for mutual benefit. Glimpses from Vice President of India Shri C. P. Radhakrishnan’s call on with the President of Sri Lanka, H.E. Anura Kumara Dissanayake, at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo today. pic.twitter.com/zaQEiNizBz — Vice-President of India (@VPIndia) April 19, 2026 According to official statements, the talks covered ongoing development cooperat...

Iran on Saturday used its highest-level engagement with India to sharply frame the ongoing war as “unlawful aggression” by the United States and Israel, with President Masoud Pezeshkian telling Prime Minister Narendra Modi that Iran “did not initiate the war” and that attacks were carried out “without any justification, logic, or legal basis,” even as Modi condemned strikes on energy infrastructure, stressed freedom of navigation, and called for an early return to peace through dialogue. File Photo of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian; Via: ShaykhSulaiman According to an official Iranian readout , Pezeshkian outlined what he described as the “dimensions of the aggression,” alleging that U.S. and Israeli strikes had resulted in the deaths of senior leaders, military commanders and civilians, including “innocent schoolchildren,” and claimed that a U.S. strike on a school in Minab led to the killing of 168 children.  He rejected U.S. assertions that the campaign was aimed...

✍️ Written by Saket Suman Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday spoke with Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan ,  President of the UAE, and  condemned attacks on the UAE while also stressing the urgent need to ensure safe navigation through the Strait of Hormuz. This comes as India has simultaneously ramped up nationwide fuel supply safeguards, intensified anti-hoarding enforcement, expanded evacuation operations and stepped up its diplomatic outreach through EAM S Jaishankar in response to the escalating Iran war and widening risks to global energy flows and Indian nationals across the Gulf. File Photo of PM NaMo welcoming President of the UAE at the airport.  Modi said he conveyed advance Eid greetings to the UAE leader and reiterated “India’s strong condemnation of all attacks on the UAE that have resulted in loss of innocent lives and damage to civilian infrastructure,” according to a statement . He added that both sides “...

✍️ Written by Saket Suman The widening war involving the United States, Israel and Iran  has marched from the Persian Gulf to the Indian Ocean and  has now begun to unfold within India’s extended strategic neighbourhood. The sinking of an Iranian naval vessel near Sri Lanka, missile exchanges across the Gulf, disruptions to energy flows and airspace closures across major aviation hubs have all brought the conflict closer to India’s economic and security periphery. In moments like these, there is always a temptation for countries to claim the moral high ground or issue strong declaratory positions. But for India, the wiser path may lie in something quieter b u t strategically more consequential. Restraint, Vigilance and the careful use of Multilateral Diplomacy.  So far, New Delhi appears to have largely followed that course. File Photo: EAM Jaishankar India’s response to the crisis has been marked less by rhetoric and more by calibra...

India has issued its first formal condolence over the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar holding a telephone conversation with Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi and Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri visiting the Iranian Embassy in New Delhi to sign the condolence book on behalf of the Government of India.  Foreign Secretary Shri Vikram Misri visited the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran; Via: MEA India Jaishankar confirmed the call, while visuals from the embassy showed Misri interacting with the Iranian envoy and recording India’s message of condolence. This marks New Delhi’s first official, government-level gesture since Khamenei was killed in a joint U.S.-Israeli strike on Tehran. The condolence step landed amid India’s widening diplomatic engagement across West Asia as the conflict escalates and risks spreading further into the Gulf and the wider region where India has major people-and-supply-cha...

✍️ Written by Saket Suman India on Tuesday intensified its diplomatic outreach and economic preparedness measures as the West Asia conflict widened, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaking to leaders of Oman, Kuwait and Qatar, the External Affairs Minister engaging European counterparts, and key ministries reviewing trade, defence and energy contingencies. File Photo: PM NaMo The outreach followed the Ministry of External Affairs statement earlier in the day reiterating India’s concern over the deteriorating situation across Iran and the Gulf, the safety of nearly one crore Indian nationals in the region, and the need for dialogue and diplomacy to restore stability. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he spoke with Sultan Haitham bin Tarik of Oman and condemned what he described as the violation of Oman’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. He said both sides agreed that sustained diplomatic engagement was essential for the earliest restorat...