External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow to review political and bilateral ties and prepare for the annual summit. Both leaders discussed cooperation, global geopolitics, and multilateral platforms like SCO, BRICS and G20, underlining eff
Amid the US imposing a 50% tariff on India, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has pushed to increase trade with Russia, encouraging Russian companies to engage "more intensively" with their Indian counterparts.
In his remarks at the India-Russia Business Forum in Moscow, EAM Jaishankar highlighted several key lessons, including the need to address concerns over dependence on a limited number of markets, reliance on narrow connectivity, and the costs of insufficient research into new opportunitie
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday focused on removing tariff and non-tariff trade barriers, improving logistics, and promoting connectivity through major corridors like the International North-South Transport Corridor and the Chennai-Vladivostok Corridor.
MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal asserted that India has been trading with China through the Lipulekh pass since 1954 and said India remains open to "constructive interaction" with Nepal through dialogue and diplomacy to resolve the "boundary issues."
"India is now in the TOP 3 of Russian trading partners, says Russian Deputy PM Denis Manturov after meeting with India's top diplomat Subrahmanyam Jaishankar."
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that bilateral trade in goods between India and Russia has increased more than five-fold from USD 13 billion in 2021 to USD 68 billion in 2024-25, and the trade imbalance should be addressed urgently.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Wednesday responded to media queries regarding the press statement issued by the interim government of Bangladesh.
"Caring for each other as Global South partners - India dispatches 32 tonnes of humanitarian assistance to Peru. A consignment of 250,000 units of physiological saline solution will support patients suffering from dehydration in Peru," MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said in a post on X.