Shivam Patel

India and the U.S. will discuss trade issues in their next call scheduled for Tuesday, Washington's newly-appointed ambassador to New Delhi, Sergio Gor, said on Monday, at a time when failure to secure a trade deal has roiled their ties and pushed the rupee to a record low.

At least half a dozen executives from top Indian arms makers, including Adani Defence and Bharat Forge , attended rare meetings in Russia this year to discuss potential joint ventures, three people familiar with the matter said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin offered India uninterrupted fuel supplies on Friday, eliciting a cautious response even as he and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed to expand trade and defence ties between countries with decades-old ties.

India's imports of Russian oil may decline for only "a brief period" as Moscow plans to boost supplies, using sophisticated technology to avert the impact of Western sanctions, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.

The crash in front of global arms buyers at the Dubai Airshow is the latest blow to a key national trophy.

China ran a disinformation campaign to hurt sales of the French Rafale fighter jet after India used the planes in May for the first time against Chinese weapons deployed by its neighbour Pakistan, a bipartisan U.S. commission said this month in a report that the Chinese rejected as false information.

The U.S. State Department has approved the sale of Javelin anti-tank missile system and Excalibur guided artillery munitions worth $93 million to India, the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said on Wednesday.

India's air force chief made the inaugural landing of a military transport aircraft at a new airbase capable of fighter jet operations close to the disputed Himalayan border with China, a defence official said on Thursday.

India and Bhutan expanded their energy ties on Tuesday during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the Himalayan nation where he extended a 40 billion rupee ($455 million) line of credit and inaugurated a hydroelectric power project.

Indian police are investigating a deadly car blast in the capital under a law used to fight "terrorism", an officer said on Tuesday, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to bring to justice all those responsible.