This announcement comes just days after PM Modi’s first phone conversation with President Donald Trump since the Republican leader assumed office for a second term.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces the challenges of reviving growth and giving relief to a middle class hit by rising living costs, while also preparing for an uncertain year of global trade,

Fear and uncertainty are rippling through India, which sends more undocumented migrants to the United States than any other country outside Latin America.

While Donald Trump's first week as president saw him direct accusations against allies in the Americas and Europe, India remained unscathed, with its top diplomatic envoy among the first to engage with new U.

US President Donald Trump has said India "will do what's right" on the deportation of illegal migrants following a phone call with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The leaders spoke on Monday, their first conversation since Trump's inauguration last week.

US President Donald Trump, during his presidential campaign, had called India a 'very, very big abuser' of import tariffs.

India's UPL swung to quarterly profit on Friday helped by higher demand for agrochemical products following an above-average monsoon, while its costs fell.

It was the latest thaw in relations between the two countries, whose troops were involved in deadly skirmishes high in the Himalayas in 2020.

The United States has clarified to India that tankers loaded with Russian oil have to discharge by Feb. 27 under the latest sanctions targeting Moscow's oil revenue, India's oil secretary Pankaj Jain told reporters at an event.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Microsoft-backed OpenAI's chief Sam Altman is planning to visit India next week, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter said, in what could be his first visit in two years at a time when the company faces legal challenges in the country.

Dozens of people were killed in a pre-dawn stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India on Wednesday as tens of millions of Hindus gathered to take a dip in sacred river waters on the most auspicious day of a six-week festival.