India is in advanced discussions with the United States to finalise a bilateral trade agreement, and the first phase of the pact could be signed by the fall this year, said Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
At least three people were killed and four others wounded in fresh US airstrikes on Yemen's capital Sanaa, its outskirts, and other provinces.
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Sunday that it would not be appropriate to discuss security and trade together with the US.
With US tariffs once again targeting Canadian goods, including steel, aluminum, and autos, voters were looking for concrete answers. Instead, they got vague assurances and strategic dodges.
US Vice-President JD Vance, Second Lady Usha Vance and their three children left Italy for India where they are scheduled to arrive Monday morning for a four-day visit that included a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
In a sign perhaps of the second Trump administration's priorities, Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s first foreign engagement will be a meeting of the Quad foreign ministers later on Tuesday followed by bilateral meetings with each of them, starting with External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his counterparts from the other three QUAD nations reaffirmed their shared commitment to strengthening a free and open Indo-Pacific where "sovereignty and territorial integrity are upheld and defended."
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met America's new US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and exchanged views on a wide range of regional and global issues.
US President Donald Trump reaffirmed his stance to support the H-1B visa program, which allows employers in the US to hire nonimmigrant workers for speciality occupations, stating that the country needs "competent" and "great" individuals to come to the US and that this can be achieved through the H-1B visa program.
US President Donald Trump said in an Oval Office signing ceremony on Monday that his administration will impose 25 per cent tariffs on Mexico and Canada on February 1, an extraordinary change in North American trade policy that could raise prices for American consumers.
