Don’t End Up Punishing India: JPMorgan CEO Asks US to Rethink Russian Oil Tariffs
Jamie Dimon, the long-time chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, spoke on the sidelines of his bank’s India Investor Conference. Dimon didn’t mince words. Looking straight at the idea of America slapping heavy tariffs on countries that still buy Russian crude, he said something that landed with quiet force: “I think hopefully America will sit […]
How will the U.S.’s Sanctioning Act affect India? | Explained
The US just handed President Trump a new stick to swing at countries still buying Russian oil, and India is right in the firing line. On Friday, Trump signed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 into law. Named after the late senator who pushed hard on this for years, the […]
Trump Just Signed That Big Russia Sanctions Bill – And India’s Sitting Right in the Middle of It
Trump signed the thing into law yesterday. The Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026. That’s the official name. It’s a mouthful, I know. Basically, after months of back-and-forth, Congress finally got it done and the president put pen to paper on Friday. The bill’s named after Lindsey Graham – the South […]
US Lawmaker Just Put India’s Name on That Russia Sanctions Bill
Congressman Steny Hoyer put forward an amendment that lists out the countries that could get hit with 100 percent tariffs. The list includes China, India, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Hungary, Slovakia, the UAE, Singapore, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The House Rules Committee made these amendments public on Monday. They only have about four working days left before the […]
Why Xi Jinping Skipped Modi’s BRICS Dinner
Chinese President Xi Jinping came to Delhi for the BRICS Summit. He landed Saturday afternoon, went straight into the meetings, sat with Modi for their bilateral talk, and then… when the big gala dinner started in the evening at Bharat Mandapam, he wasn’t there. Putin was at the table. Other BRICS leaders were there. Our […]
Before 9/11, India Was On Osama Bin Laden’s Hit List, CIA Documents Reveal
The anniversary of 9/11, more stuff comes out about what the intelligence people knew or didn’t know back then? Well, this time the CIA dropped a bunch of old presidential briefs, and one of them has India’s name right there on a list of places Osama bin Laden was looking at for attacks. Not years […]
Return to Bangladesh not about power but to stand by people, says ex-PM Sheikh Hasina
In a phone interview with Hindustan Times just the other day, the former Bangladesh prime minister basically said, plain and simple: I’m coming back, and it’s not because I want the chair again. It’s because I can’t keep sitting outside while people back home are going through it. She’s been in India since August 2024, […]
After unity pitch in US, RSS chief praises India’s asylum policy in Canada: ‘Came as aggressors, but still thrive’
Just a day or two after Mohan Bhagwat stood in New York talking about unity in diversity like it was something baked into India’s bones, he lands in Toronto and keeps the same vibe going. The RSS chief is on this outreach trip, you know, part of the organisation’s big centenary push, hitting the US, […]
Subhash Chandra Plans a Fresh Start in Switzerland After Massive Debt Settlement
The 75-year-old founder of Zee and chairman of the Essel Group just got the National Company Law Tribunal’s nod on his personal insolvency plan. Creditors who had claimed around Rs 22,006 crore from him will get roughly Rs 6.5 crore in total. That’s about 0.03 per cent recovery — a haircut of nearly 99.97 per […]
India and China Just Agreed to Push Early on Boundary Talks – Here’s What the New 8-Point Deal Actually Means
On 25 August, Ajit Doval and Wang Yi sat across the table for the 25th Special Representatives meeting on the boundary question. Next day both countries put out the same eight-point consensus. And the part that actually stands out is this: they have agreed to push for an “early and substantial harvest” on boundary delimitation. […]
