After their summit-level talks, India and Russia unveiled a strategic economic roadmap through 2030 aimed at lifting bilateral trade to $100 billion within five years. Moscow pledged to remove non-tariff barriers and regulatory hurdles to boost Indian exports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has held talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an annual summit, focusing on diversifying economic ties.

Russian and Indian leaders reaffirm ‘strategic partnership’ and highlight joint work on nuclear power and critical materials

“By engaging Putin so prominently, India was also sending an overt message of defiance, using its relationship with Moscow to highlight its independent stance in global affairs” said a senior western diplomat in Delhi, declining to be named, as he was not authorised to comment on the Putin visit.

The United States itself still buys nuclear fuel from us for its own nuclear power plants. That is also fuel,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said during his first visit to India in four years.

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In a historic meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi conveyed a strong message to Russian President Vladimir Putin, stating, 'India is not neutral, India is on the side of peace.

Narendra Modi came up with a pop song to get India to consume millet; diners consider—if bathed in butter. Prime Minister Narendra Modi aired security concerns to Western leaders in the months before the killing of a Canadian Sikh activist. The prime minister raised the issue with his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, ahead of the G-20 summit.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said he presented a copy of the Gita in Russian to President Vladimir Putin.