World and Diplomatic Affairs Correspondent
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Priya Nair reports on world affairs and diplomacy for The NE Times, explaining how global events and India's foreign relations affect readers at home.
A US appeals court on 24 July 2026 refused to revive the $100,000 H-1B fee struck down in June, barring USCIS from collecting it during appeal — an interim win for Indian tech workers.
India's MEA rejected China's readout of the Jaishankar-Wang Yi Manila meeting, saying Beijing illegally occupies Indian territory in J&K and Ladakh and objecting to Chinese projects there.
As Sonam Wangchuk's hunger strike ends, the NEET-UG crisis draws diaspora rallies abroad and scrutiny from rights and internet-freedom groups. An NE Times analysis.
An Indian Muslim man working at a shopping mall near Salt Lake City was stabbed repeatedly in an attack that local police say was motivated by religion.
The UN nuclear watchdog insists inspectors will return to Iran's enrichment sites under an interim US-Iran deal, but Tehran says access waits for a final agreement, leaving Indian importers eyeing both oil flows and the Strait of Hormuz.
China has reclaimed the top spot on the global supercomputing rankings with an all-domestic machine running at over two exaflops, a milestone in the US-China tech contest that underscores why India is racing to build its own sovereign computing power.
At their annual summit in New Delhi, Prime Ministers Modi and Takaichi unveiled a roadmap deepening cooperation on maritime security, artificial intelligence, semiconductors, shipbuilding and critical technologies.
A ferocious early-summer heatwave has shattered temperature records across Western Europe and killed hundreds, prompting red alerts, early monument closures and fresh caution for the thousands of Indian tourists and students heading there this season.
A United Nations commission chaired by former Indian judge Srinivasan Muralidhar has concluded that Israel continues to commit genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children, in a 94-page report that names a death toll of more than 20,000 minors.
India hosts the BRICS National Security Advisers' meeting on 22-23 June 2026, with NSA Ajit Doval chairing talks on terrorism, cyber risks, emerging technology and regional instability amid Middle East tensions.
Reports of a planned high-level India-New Zealand engagement have revived attention on free trade talks, professional mobility and Indo-Pacific cooperation between two partners with clear room to grow.
NSA Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met on the sidelines of the BRICS security advisers' meeting in New Delhi, noting progress toward a gradual, guarded normalisation of strained relations.
An explosion at an industrial facility in Qatar's Ras Laffan area has killed 12 Indians and injured 14, renewing concern over migrant worker safety in the Gulf.
A New York City bill to phase out horse-drawn carriages has been renamed Romanch's Law in memory of Romanch Mahajan, an 18-year-old Indian who died after a Central Park accident.
Venezuela's foreign minister publicly thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for India's Operation Amistad earthquake relief, highlighting how humanitarian assistance has become a working arm of Indian foreign policy.
Buoyed by personal rapport between Narendra Modi and Mark Carney, New Delhi and Ottawa are working to convert a fragile diplomatic thaw into a comprehensive trade agreement, with implications for students, professionals and the large Indo-Canadian diaspora.
European Union heads meet for a high-stakes two-day summit covering the next long-term budget, Ukraine, Middle East fallout and a fresh vote on the EU-US trade deal.
Five major central banks set rates within eight days as an oil shock pushes the ECB to hike, the Fed to hold amid dissent and the Bank of Japan toward a defensive move.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi marked America's 250th Independence Day with a message to President Trump, saying the next 250 years should lift the India-US partnership to new heights.
Indiaspora's new 250 at 250 list, released ahead of America's 250th anniversary, celebrates Indian-origin achievers across technology, medicine, government and the arts, underscoring the diaspora's deepening footprint in US public life.
India is hosting a BRICS National Security Advisers meeting in New Delhi, with cross-border terrorism, cyber threats, AI misuse and transnational crime set to dominate a fast-broadening security agenda.
India's prime minister attends his seventh consecutive G7 summit, with a much-watched Modi-Trump bilateral and supply-chain security dominating talks in the French Alps.
A deadly explosion and fire at Qatar's Ras Laffan gas complex has killed 13 people and injured 66, with Indian nationals reported among the casualties, raising fresh consular and migrant-safety concerns.
New Delhi is closely tracking Bangladesh's proposal to develop the Teesta river with Chinese assistance, a move that revives one of South Asia's most sensitive water-sharing disputes and tests regional strategic trust.
Oil prices have tumbled for five straight sessions on expectations of a US-Iran agreement, offering rare relief to India's import-heavy economy after weeks of supply-shock fears.
Reports that Prime Minister Modi may visit Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand in July have spotlighted India's Indo-Pacific calendar, raising the question of what concrete agreements the trip could deliver.
India is hosting the BRICS national security advisers' meeting chaired by Ajit Doval, placing cyber risks, counter-terrorism and ICT security at the centre of the run-up to the 2026 BRICS Summit.
After months of missile exchanges, Israel and Iran have suspended attacks under a conditional truce, with Washington claiming a formal peace agreement is now within reach.
Twelve Indian nationals were among 13 people killed in an explosion at a gas processing facility in Qatar's Ras Laffan Industrial City, with authorities citing a technical malfunction during operations.
Washington has notified a roughly $482 million support package to keep India's Apache attack helicopters and M777 howitzers combat-ready, deepening defence ties through maintenance, spares and training rather than new weapons.
A proposed near-doubling of the US naturalisation fee, alongside the removal of waivers, threatens to reshape citizenship timelines and household budgets for one of America's largest immigrant communities.
Washington is projecting rapid growth and rate cuts for 2026, but the looming succession at the Federal Reserve has raised global concerns over the central bank's independence.
Investigators have missed the one-year deadline to deliver their conclusions on the Ahmedabad disaster that killed 260 people, blaming an incomplete examination of the Boeing 787's engines in the United States.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup has opened in Mexico City, Los Angeles and Toronto, launching the first 48-team edition spread across three host nations and sixteen cities.
A Seoul court convicted former president Yoon Suk Yeol of sending military drones over Pyongyang to manufacture a pretext for his failed 2024 martial law bid.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup opened in Mexico City as the tournament debuts a record 48-team format spread across the United States, Mexico and Canada.
UN-backed assessments confirm famine conditions in parts of Darfur and Kordofan, with 21 million people facing acute hunger as the Rapid Support Forces consolidate control of the west.
A WMO forecast projects near-record global temperatures through 2030 as researchers raise fresh alarm that a key Atlantic ocean current may be approaching collapse.
After three days of talks in New Delhi, India and the United States say the first tranche of their interim trade agreement is all but complete, with signatures expected within weeks.
Maritime intelligence data suggests nearly 62 percent of tankers and cargo vessels sailing from the Gulf to India have switched off tracking systems while crossing the Strait of Hormuz, signalling heightened risk perceptions in a vital energy corridor.
An explosion at a gas facility in Qatar's Ras Laffan industrial zone has killed 12 Indian nationals among 13 dead, with India's Ministry of External Affairs coordinating victim identification and the return of mortal remains.
Four astronauts, including an Italian from the European Space Agency, were assigned to a 2027 Earth-orbit test flight that will help pave the way for a crewed lunar landing.
A US proposal to replace indefinite student status with fixed admission periods and a shorter post-study grace window threatens to reshape choices for the nearly 3.6 lakh Indians who form America's largest international student population.
Early-stage talks for India to sell BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles and Akashteer air-defence systems to the UAE could mark a major step for Make in India and New Delhi's arms-export ambitions in the Gulf.
A strong earthquake off Mindanao triggered a tsunami and widespread destruction, with the death toll climbing and millions of schoolchildren affected.
With a new elected government in Bangladesh, New Delhi is pushing to repair ties strained since 2024, but unresolved disputes over water, trade and visas continue to weigh on the relationship.
Qatar's Emir telephoned Prime Minister Narendra Modi after an explosion at Ras Laffan Industrial City killed 13 people, including 12 Indian nationals, prompting urgent consular coordination.
An explosion at Qatar's Ras Laffan LNG complex has killed 13 people, including 12 Indian nationals, renewing scrutiny of the safety of India's vast Gulf migrant workforce.
Islamabad's 18.77 trillion-rupee budget pushes military spending past three trillion rupees for the first time, even as the government holds the line on fiscal targets set by the International Monetary Fund.
The UN nuclear watchdog secured a localised ceasefire so technicians could fix a critical line at Europe's largest nuclear plant, the sixth such truce since late 2025.
A powerful eruption at one of Japan's most active volcanoes coated the city of Kagoshima in ash, grounding flights, halting trains and disrupting the summer tourist season.
Ukraine's president called for direct negotiations in an open letter, winning backing from European leaders, even as drone attacks and shelling persisted across the front.
On the sidelines of the G7 summit in France, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump met to advance the trade deal and coordinate on a deepening crisis in West Asia.
President Lee Jae-myung's Democratic Party won most governorships and metropolitan mayoralties on a high turnout, yet the opposition held the symbolically vital Seoul mayoralty.
Signs of a possible accord to end months of conflict pushed oil prices to a near two-month low, with talks reportedly aimed at reopening the vital Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told NSA Ajit Doval in New Delhi that India and China must respect each other's core interests and keep the border issue in its proper place within the broader relationship.
Leaders gathered for talks aimed at deepening regional trade ties and coordinating action on climate resilience.
A senior UN envoy has told the Security Council that delays in the Council-backed Gaza transition plan are deepening suffering, with fuel and water shortages crippling relief efforts.
More than a year after the patrolling deal that ended the eastern Ladakh standoff, India and China are negotiating de-escalation and the harder task of formally defining their disputed boundary.
With nearly two-fifths of India's record remittance inflows originating in the Gulf, a deepening crisis in the region threatens a financial pipeline that supports millions of households back home.
As ties with parts of South Asia stay frosty, New Delhi is leaning on warmer relationships with Colombo and Kathmandu, deepening cooperation on defence, connectivity and energy.
An unusually intense bout of heat arriving weeks ahead of the typical summer peak has broken temperature records from Portugal to Britain, with scientists pointing to climate change.
Clashes around the strategic Rubaya mining area and a deadly insurgency in Ituri are testing a US- and Qatar-brokered peace process between the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and M23 rebels.
An outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda has surpassed previous records, with hundreds of cases and a mounting death toll prompting an international response.