India & The New World

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,...