Amid US decision to impose 25 per cent additional tariffs on Indian goods for purchase of Russian oil, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Friday that China, not India, is the biggest purchaser of Russian oil and EU is the biggest purchaser of LNG and that the logic of singling
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.
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.
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said he was pleased to meet Russian scholars and think tank representatives, where they discussed India-Russia relations, global geopolitics, and India's viewpoint.
Babushkin also hit out at Washington's tariff decision and pressure on New Delhi over Russian crude oil, saying the moves were "unjustified and unilateral."
"There is no change in our position on Taiwan. We stressed that like the rest of the world, India has a relationship with Taiwan that focuses on economic, technology and cultural ties. We intend to continue it," sources said today.