1.U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told him New Delhi will stop buying oil from Russia, though the move will take time.″[Modi] assured me today that they will not be buying oil from Russia. That’s a big stop.” Trump said at the press briefing in the Oval Office. “Now we’ve got to get China to do the same thing.” https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/trump-says-india-will-stop-buying-russian-oil-ukraine-war-crude-china-putin-modi.html 2.Amid escalating trade tensions with China over its export restrictions on rare earth minerals, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said that Washington expects support from India and other allied nations. In an interview to Fox Business on Monday (October 13, 2025), Mr. Bessent said “this is China versus the world”. “They have pointed a bazooka at the supply chains and the industrial base of the entire free world,” he said. https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/us-expects-support-from-india-ot...