India & The New World

Parliamentary Democracies: 250 million Quit Poverty in India Deepak Razdan 15 January, 2026 As the world struggles to draw up a peace agreement to end the Russia-Ukraine War and watches Iran’s anti-government protests, India is hosting a conference of Commonwealth Speakers to take stock how Parliaments are strengthening people’s faith in democratic institutions. The 28th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC), is being attended by about 60 Speakers and Presiding Officers of 42 Commonwealth nations and focusing on the centrality of people in democracies. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the conference on 15th January and narrated how Parliamentary democracy in the country had helped 250 million citizens come out of poverty. This, he said, proved wrong all those who doubted that India would not be able to deliver on development due to its vast diversity. India showed its diversity was really its strength, Modi said. Speaking on t...

  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomes Mr Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation in New Delhi for participation in the 23rd India–Russia Annual Summit on 5 December, 2025 Amid Western sanctions, Putin gets Red Carpet Welcome in New Delhi Deepak Razdan 05 December, 2025 As the Western World studied US President Donald Trump’s 28-point Peace Plan to end the Russia-Ukraine War, India hosted Russian President Vladimir Putin to a warm State visit on 4-5 December, 2025. The Russian President’s India visit was meant for the 23rd India-Russia Annual Summit, but its significance was much greater. The powerful Western World has been trying to isolate Russia with sanctions and forcing it to end its war against Ukraine. President Trump imposed severe tariffs on India for buying Russian oil as it could strengthen Russia financially to continue the war. India expressed its helplessness to buy the Russian oil in the interest of its domestic economy and the world waited how th...

25th Council of Heads of SCO Member States and the SCO plus in Tianjin, China on 1st September, 2025 Weapons Show: East vs. West Deepak Razdan Sunday, 7 September, 2025 On 3rd September, China held a Victory Parade in Beijing where it displayed its deadly and highly advanced weaponry that could match any adversary in military strength. The parade was almost like China’s reply to the US display of its missile power in destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities in June this year. The Chinese parade had followed the largest-ever Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) annual conference of over 20 Heads of State, hosted by SCO current Chair China in Tianjin from 31st August to 1st September. If US President Donald Trump had Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska in the US to discuss Ukraine, Chinese President Xi Jinping had the Russian President by his side at the SCO Summit. The East vs. the West power games were evident. The SCO was established in 2001 in Shanghai, China by K...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump giving statements after their Alaska Summit on 15 August, 2025 Search for Peace in Ukraine Gets Pace Deepak Razdan Sunday, 17 August, 2025 The first shots for a peace agreement in Ukraine have been fired. This was clear from the Alaska Summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on 15th August. So far, President Putin had appeared to be an unreal person determined to destabilize Europe after destroying Ukraine. The Coalition of the Willing was working hard to put together a European Army to counter Russia. NATO was putting pressure on its European members to raise their defence budgets to five per cent of the GDP, 3.5 per cent on core defence expenditure, and told them not to depend on the US wholly for protection against Russia. The Alaska Summit changed the atmosphere. It showed President Putin was open to talks. The two sides could meet and the world could know why the Ukrain...

  President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a phone call with Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi on 11th August, 2025. Ending Wars Not Easy, Like Tariff Tables Deepak Razdan Tuesday, 12 August, 2025 After the trade war’s first phase ends with US announcement of new import tariffs for nearly the whole world, the New World can now attend to real wars – conflicts where missiles and drones cross borders from both sides. Unlike the tariff tangles, the military fights, however, don’t end with one side dominating the other so strongly that its voice is reduced to a whisper. Like, in the Ukraine war, its President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made it clear there will be no ceding of territory to Russia by his country, though talks between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska this weekend are welcome. As the US announced deadlines for its trade partners to reach deals, there were hardly any noises regarding the US pressures for tariffs suitable...

US President Donald Trump hosts Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi India Meets the New World Deepak Razdan Monday, 4 August, 2025 India is finally face to face with the New World. So far, there was much greeting and hope. There was a happy distance. Now, India is part of the New Tariffs World. There is no haze of suspense any more. Thursday on, Indian products will have a 25 per cent import tariff, besides other levies, before entering the US soil. President Trump announced the new tariff rate for India even as India and the US were engaged in talks for a new trade agreement. India was included in a long list of nations on 31st July for which the new tariffs were announced. President Trump additionally made a post on India on X to convey India deserved no mercy because it bought oil from Russia and thereby financed Russia’s war against Ukraine. In his latest comment on India, the US President said “India is not only buying massive amounts of Russian oil, they are then,...