india-russia relations

New Delhi, March 30 India and Russia explored ways to further strengthen their already close strategic partnership against the backdrop of the West Asia crisis and its economic repercussions on Monday.The escalating conflict in West Asia figured prominently in Russian Deputy Foreign Minister...

New Delhi, March 30: India and Russia held Foreign Office Consultations here on Monday, reviewing their Special and Privileged Strategic Partnership and discussing bilateral, regional, and global issues of mutual interest.Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister...

New Delhi, March 23 India and Russia need to address issues such as non-tariff barriers and regulatory impediments to increase the two-way annual trade to USD 100 billion by 2030, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Monday while reaffirming New Delhi's steadfast commitment to...

New Delhi, March 17 – US President Donald Trump may have believed that his threats of tariffs would make India back down, but a new paper by an IIM Udaipur professor argues that he got the country badly wrong.The paper, by Professor Kunal Kamal Kumar and published in Third World Quarterly...

New Delhi, March 12 Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday criticized Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for speaking in the Lok Sabha on "various other issues" but not on the subject of LPG, which he wanted to discuss.After Gandhi's speech in the House, Rijiju told reporters that the Congress had...

New Delhi, March 12 Asserting that the foundation of every nation is its energy security, Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Thursday alleged that the government has "bartered" India's right to determine its relationships with different oil suppliers to the US due to a "compromise"...

New Delhi, March 12 – Lok Sabha Leader of the Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi, on Thursday, raised concerns about the shortages of LPG affecting the hotel industry, in the wake of the West Asia crisis, and claimed that this was the "beginning of a difficult situation" that would only worsen in the...

FGN56 NEPAL-RSP-2NDLD INDIARSP to pursue 'development diplomacy' to boost Nepal-India ties: Chairman LamichhaneKathmandu: Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) chief Rabi Lamichhane has said he looked forward to strengthening Nepal-India ties through “development diplomacy” as he thanked Prime...

Patna, March 9 – Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) National Working President Tejashwi Yadav criticised the Union government's foreign policy stance on Monday, stating that a country like India should not need permission from any other nation to decide its energy needs or trade policies.In a post on...

Bengaluru, March 9 – Karnataka BJP State President and MLA B.Y. Vijayendra on Monday criticized Chief Minister Siddaramaiah over his criticism of the Union government’s foreign policy, accusing the Congress of compromising India’s sovereign interests during the UPA era.In a strongly worded...

Bengaluru, March 7 – Criticizing the Centre over the increase in LPG cylinder prices, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said on Saturday that the latest increase is deeply concerning and demanded the Centre's resignation."The latest increase in LPG cylinder prices is deeply concerning for...

Srinagar, March 7 National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah on Saturday criticized the Centre over a US waiver allowing Indian refiners to purchase Russian oil, saying that the country should make its own decisions and no one else should dictate them."We are not dependent. The problem...

Chandigarh, March 7 Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday criticised the central government over a US waiver allowing Indian refiners to purchase Russian oil, asking whether the country was being run from the White House.Amid the escalating conflict with Iran, the US on Thursday...

Chennai, March 7. A.N. Prasad, spokesperson for the Tamil Nadu unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has stated that the United States granting a temporary waiver allowing Indian refiners to access certain Russian crude shipments demonstrates the success of India's diplomatic and energy...

New York/Washington, March 7 The US has said it has given "permission" to India to purchase Russian oil that is currently on ships floating on waterways, in an effort to ease supply shortages around the world amid the conflict in West Asia."The world has ample oil supplies. Yesterday, the...

New Delhi, March 6 Left leaders on Friday questioned the Centre over the US' announcement of a "waiver" for Indian refiners to purchase Russian oil, terming it a "humiliation" of sovereign India.CPI leader P Sandosh Kumar in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India's foreign policy...

New Delhi, March 5 Russia has always been open to supplying crude oil to India, Russian Ambassador Denis Alipov said on Thursday, amid growing concerns over soaring prices of petroleum products in the context of the West Asia crisis.Global oil and gas prices have surged after Iran has...

February 23, New Delhi — In a significant step to broaden India’s inter-parliamentary engagement with the world, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has established Parliamentary Friendship Groups with more than 60 countries. This move reflects a conscious effort by the Indian Parliament to deepen...

Moscow, February 17 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hosted ambassadors from BRICS member and partner countries on Tuesday, and discussed ways to enhance "strategic partnership" within the group during India's rotating chairmanship this year.India formally assumed the chairmanship of...

Lucknow, February 15 A Ramlila event will be held on February 20 in Moscow, with the support of the Indian Embassy in Russia, as a people-to-people initiative aimed at strengthening bilateral ties, officials said on Sunday.Organizers said elaborate stage design, traditional costumes, and music...