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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 opened in Mexico City as the tournament debuts a record 48-team format spread across the United States, Mexico and Canada.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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