External affairs minister S Jaishankar with American secretary of defence Pete Hegseth. NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday (Tuesday in the US) held a bilateral meeting with American secretary of defence Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon, where he underlined the strategic importance of India-US defence ties, describing them as “one of the…
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said the India-US defence partnership is one of the most important parts of the two countries’ relationship during his visit to the Pentagon in Washington. “I am here with you at the Pentagon because we believe that our defence partnership is, today, truly one of the most consequential,” Jaishankar told…
In early 2017, American intelligence agencies delivered an unequivocal judgment about why President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had ordered a sprawling effort to sabotage the recent American presidential election. Mr. Putin wanted to cripple the faith Americans have in their own elections, they found, and to undermine a United States-led “liberal world order” that…