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Embassy clarifies USAID never funded voter turnout projects in India from 2014–2024; controversy stems from DOGE announcement and Trump’s repeated allegations.

India has successfully test-fired an indigenously developed intermediate-range ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead deep into the territory of its geopolitical rival, China, just as Prime Minister Narendra Modi prepares for his first visit there in years.

MEA said border trade between India and China through Lipulekh Pass began in 1954 and was disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic and “other developments”

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh met Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian astronaut on the ISS, in New Delhi. He hailed Shukla’s achievement as a major milestone in India’s human spaceflight journey and praised his contributions to science and technology.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in New Delhi by the end of year.According to sources, Putin will travel to New Delhi but no dates have been finalised yet. MeanwhilePM Modi and Putin will also hold a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Tianjin scheduled at the end of this month.

The US Embassy in New Delhi contradicted US President Donald Trump's claims of $21 million in funding for voter turnout in India, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply.

An Indian parliamentary committee on aviation has warned that staffing shortages at the country's air safety regulator and lack of air traffic controllers pose a threat to safety in one of the world's fastest growing aviation markets.

Relations plummeted in 2020 after security forces clashed along the border. The violence, the worst in decades, left 20 Indian soldiers and four Chinese soldiers dead, freezing high-level political engagements.

The foreign ministers of India and China met in New Delhi on Monday in a renewed effort by the nuclear-armed Asian rivals to ease tensions after a five-year border standoff significantly hurt relations.