The Seoul skyline. Mongkol Chuewong | Moment | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets traded mixed Friday, breaking ranks with Wall Street as investors also assessed a slate of economic data in the region. Japan’s Nikkei 225 slid 0.41%, while the Topix lost 0.39% after core consumer prices in Tokyo rose at a slower pace in August. The…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will likely meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation during his China visit later this week, reports said on 28 August. Narendra Modi will be in China between 31 August and 1 September for the SCO summit in Tianjin. According to reports, the Modi-Xi meeting…
President Trump’s steep 50% tariff on Indian goods is now in effect. The president had initially announced a 25% tariff on India, but earlier this month he signed an executive order imposing an additional 25% tax because India buys Russian oil. CBS News business contributor Javier David has more. Source link
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Russian President Vladimir Putin will be among the world leaders attending a regional security forum in China next week. Other leaders from Central Asia, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia will also gather at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) 2025 summit, which will be…
Updated on: Aug 27, 2025 04:25 pm IST Kirti Vardhan Singh, minister of state for external affairs, says strength of India’s economy will carry it through these times In the first response from a top official in the Narendra Modi government on the day US trade tariffs on India hit 50%, union minister of state…
Xi Jinping’s SCO summit in Tianjin is more than a diplomatic gathering—it’s a high-stakes chessboard. For the first time in seven years, PM Narendra Modi will step onto Chinese soil, joining Xi and Vladimir Putin in a powerful projection of Global South strength. With Russia isolated in the West, Beijing is offering Moscow a stage,…
BEIJING – Chinese President Xi Jinping will gather more than 20 world leaders at a regional security forum in China next week, in a powerful show of Global South solidarity in the age of Donald Trump’s second U.S. Presidency while also helping sanctions-hit Russia pull off a diplomatic coup. Aside from Russian President Vladimir Putin,…
President Donald Trump’s tariff blitz is shaking the pillars of global trade and diplomacy. President Donald Trump’s second term is turning out to be less about diplomacy and more about demolition of America’s traditional alliances. In his latest push to reassert American primacy, Trump has unleashed a new wave of tariffs-50% levies on Indian and…
Amid United States pressure to halt Russian oil purchases as part of efforts to end the Ukraine war, India’s Ambassador to Russia, Vinay Kumar, has firmly rejected Washington’s punitive tariffs on Indian goods, stressing that New Delhi will continue buying oil from wherever it secures the “best deal”. Speaking to Russia’s state-run TASS news agency,…
Xi Jinping, Narendra Modi and Shigeru Ishiba (Image/Agencies) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Japan after receiving invitation from Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. He will later travel to China to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Tianjin.He will travel to both nations from August 29 to September 1…