Our stakes in the Gulf war rose sharply when the #US targeted ships carrying Indian crews. We must ring-fence interests and press for peace at the upcoming #G7 meet.


🔗https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinion/2026/Jun/12/blood-flows-as-fragile-pause-does-nothing-to-cap-costs

#OPINION | Gianni Infantino’s presidency of football’s global governing body has seen a series of code breaches. He has sidestepped compensation demands for #Qatar 2022, been overtly political in cosying up to the #US president, brought aboard questionable partners and priced out fans.


🔗 https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinion/2026/Jun/15/infantinos-fifa-scores-own-goals

#US President #Trump is likely to present the #FIFAWorldCup trophy to the winning captain at the 2026 final.

He drew attention at Club World Cup when he remained on podium beside #Chelsea captain #ReeceJames as he lifted the trophy.

🔗https://www.newindianexpress.com/sport/football/2026/Jun/16/trump-likely-to-hand-fifa-world-cup-trophy-to-winning-captain

#OPINION | #Trump desires to establish his place in history as an unconquerable President who stamped his supremacy over the world. Instead, he risks being recorded as a blundering #US leader who caused untold harm to global economic stability and international security.

🔗https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinion/2026/Jun/26/traipsing-down-to-road-to-trumpville

✍️K M Chandrasekhar

As the White House has soured on #Israel's war with #Hezbollah in #Lebanon, #US President #DonaldTrump has shocked many in the region by pushing an alternative: Let #Syria fight the Iran-backed militant group instead.

He has suggested that the battle-hardened and Islamist-led insurgents who overthrew Syria's autocratic President Bashar Assad a year and a half ago and formed a new government would do a better job of rooting out Hezbollah than the Israeli army.

🔗https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2026/Jun/28/trump-presses-syria-to-take-on-hezbollah-raising-alarm-in-lebanon-and-israel

#EXPLAINER | Negotiators from the #US and #Iran must turn broad political commitments in the MoU into a detailed, enforceable final agreement, addressing unresolved issues including Iran’s enrichment programme, sanctions removal pace, frozen assets, security guarantees, regional military arrangements and Strait of Hormuz administration, with the 60-day timeline extendable by mutual agreement.


https://www.newindianexpress.com/explainers/2026/Jun/27/what-the-us-iran-mou-means-why-it-matters-what-happens-next

#OPINION | The #US President is pivoting from the Persian Gulf to reboot the proxy war in #Ukraine, retracting the steps taken in Anchorage. Meanwhile, #Beijing is signalling a warmer relationship with #Washington.

🔗https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinion/2026/Jun/29/trumps-gaze-turns-to-inherited-war-xis-to-order-beyond

A divided #SupremeCourt on Tuesday upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President #DonaldTrump's executive order declaring that children born to people who are in the #US illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.

The justices relied on a long-settled understanding of the 14th Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, and more recent federal laws in ruling that anyone born in the country, with very limited exceptions, is a citizen.

🔗https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2026/Jun/30/us-supreme-court-upholds-birthright-citizenship-rejecting-trumps-proposed-limits

The #US Department of Justice has forcefully defended its decision to abandon the criminal case against Indian billionaire #GautamAdani and seven others, telling a federal judge the prosecution was legally flawed, diplomatically counterproductive and inconsistent with the #Trump administration's enforcement priorities.

https://www.newindianexpress.com/business/2026/Jul/04/us-doj-says-adani-case-should-never-have-been-brought-urges-judge-to-drop-charges-permanently-2

#OPINION | The turmoil of the tariffs may have subsided, but tolls for passage may tarnish free trade forever. Both the #US and #Iran should learn from history to avoid setting a terrible precedent.

🔗https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinion/2026/Jul/08/what-happens-at-hormuz-may-not-stay-in-the-gulf

#China on Friday achieved its first controlled recovery of an orbital-class reusable rocket booster after the maiden launch of its Long March-10B carrier rocket, marking a major milestone in the country's reusable space technology.

The achievement comes over a decade after #US-based #SpaceX, founded by #ElonMusk, became the first company to successfully recover an orbital-class rocket booster in December 2015.

🔗https://newindianexpress.com/world/2026/Jul/10/china-achieves-first-controlled-recovery-of-reusable-rocket-booster-after-spacex-2

Iran's military warned that it would not allow the #US to "interfere" in the management of the #StraitofHormuz, shortly after President #DonaldTrump said that the US is taking over the strategic waterway.

🔗https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2026/Jul/13/iran-says-under-no-circumstances-will-it-allow-us-interference-in-hormuz-as-trump-declares-take-over-of-strait

#US President #DonaldTrump vowed to charge all cargo shipped through #Hormuz to pay for keeping the strait open, and to reinstate a blockade on Iranian ships even as #Washington continued to launch more strikes targetting #Iran.

"The Hormuz Strait is OPEN," he posted on his Truth Social platform.

🔗https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2026/Jul/13/trump-vows-20-charge-on-cargo-ships-in-hormuz-to-reinstate-naval-blockade-as-us-strikes-iranian-port

“They have no navy. They have no air force. It’s all gone."

#US President #DonaldTrump has claimed that #Iran’s senior military leadership has been wiped out, alleging that #MojtabaKhamenei, the son of the late Supreme Leader #AyatollahAliKhamenei, is “90% gone” as tensions between #Washington and #Tehran continue to escalate.

🔗https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2026/Jul/14/mojtaba-khamenei-is-90-gone-trump-makes-big-claim-as-us-iran-conflict-spirals-out-of-control-2

"I have decided to replace the 20% United States Reimbursement Fee with Trade and Investment Deals that the various Gulf States will be making into the United States," #US President #Trump said on his Truth Social platform.

🔗https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2026/Jul/14/trump-drops-20-hormuz-levy-in-favour-of-gulf-trade-deals-as-netanyahu-warns-iran-of-decisive-blow

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that a lack of understanding among India’s partners about its concerns over cross-border terrorism can affect bilateral ties, in an apparent reference to the United States’ renewed engagement with Pakistan.

Speaking at a conversation hosted by the Asia Society in New York after the UN General Assembly’s high-level week, Jaishankar said terrorism emanating from a neighbouring country remains one of India’s primary security concerns.

#India #US #Pakistan

🔗https://www.newindianexpress.com/india/2026/Sep/29/jaishankar-flags-us-lack-of-understanding-on-cross-border-terror-concerns-says-it-impacts-bilateral-ties

“No one in the room would disagree with the fact that the landscape today is primarily marked by a radical repositioning of the United States. A repositioning which is a posture of choice and, in a way, it has deliberately become a lonelier power"

US has ‘deliberately become a lonelier power’; global competition has led to ‘weaponization of leverage’: Jaishankar at the Munich Leaders Meeting.

#US #Jaishankar

https://www.newindianexpress.com/india/2026/Oct/04/us-has-deliberately-become-a-lonelier-power-global-competition-has-led-to-weaponization-of-leverage-jaishankar

#OPINION | The war between the US and Iran has settled into a dangerous, unstable equilibrium. Washington possesses overwhelming destructive capacity, yet lacks the strategic leverage or political willingness to enforce a decisive outcome. Tehran lacks the capability to win conventionally, but retains sufficient asymmetric reach to hold its own against US attacks.

As military stockpiles run low and global markets adjust to prolonged instability, the Iran War serves as a stark demonstration of the limits of unilateral military force in an increasingly multipolar world.

#IranWar #US

🔗https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinion/2026/Oct/08/operation-epic-fury-is-an-epic-failure-at-home-and-in-hormuz

#OPINION | If Washington increasingly treats India as an adversary on trade and energy, it cannot expect the wider strategic partnership to remain insulated from the consequences. Cooperation in areas important to the US also depends on reciprocity and respect for Indian interests. This is a reminder that the benefits of partnership must not flow in only one direction.

#US #Trump

🔗https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinion/2026/Oct/11/the-diesel-pact-double-standards-and-the-price-of-strategic-partnership

India-US relations are facing fresh challenges under US President Donald Trump, with tensions over visa restrictions, trade negotiations and Russian oil.

From the controversy surrounding Indian professionals in the American technology sector to Washington’s demands for greater access to India’s agricultural and dairy markets, several issues are testing this strategic partnership.

Is the US treating India as an equal partner, or using economic pressure to influence its decisions?

This explainer examines the key disagreements, India’s strategic autonomy and the options available to New Delhi as it seeks to protect its national interests while maintaining crucial ties with Washington.


https://youtu.be/njVWQjcKg8E?si=SvO_SoJ8iMD9SKGr

#US #Trump