A second home.

"US congressional leaders...invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address a joint meeting of the House of Representatives and Senate on June 22, one of the highest honors Washington affords to foreign dignitaries." Reuters. The letter was signed by both majority and minority leaders of the House and the Senate. "The speech would be Modi's second to a joint meeting of the US legislature, a rare honor for a leader once denied a visa to enter the United States over human rights concern." This is not Modi's second visit, however. He has enjoyed weeks of travel in the US in the 1990s and there are photographs of him in crisp white kurta pajama front of the White House in Washington and another in front of Universal Studios at the other side of the US. Firstpost. New York apparently was a second home to him. An enormous transition from selling tea at Vadnagar railway station, India Today, to weeks of comfortable tourism in the US of A. A House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recommended that India be included in Nato Plus 5, which is 31-member Nato plus Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Israel and South Korea. HT. Rejecting the offer, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said, "Nato template doesn't apply to India." India TV. Joining will mean a sudden end to India's collaboration with Russia. India's defence exports will stop while US arms manufacturers make huge profits selling to India, wrote MK Bhadrakumar. Then there is cheap Russian oil which allows the government to earn windfall gains in taxes on retail petrol and diesel. "In March, India imported from Russia 1.62 million barrels per day (bpd), 40 percent of its total oil imports, according to the International Energy Agency, up from around 70,000 bpd and just one percent of inflows before the war." ET. So, India is playing both ends against the middle. A local newspaper in Bangladesh. Kalbela "reported that the US will impose fresh sanctions against some former and current officials and political figures," and "It cited growing distance between the Bangladesh government and the US due to sanctions against some officials pf its elite law enforcement agency Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), US refusal to return the killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib and utterances of the current US Ambassador to Dhaka Peter Haas and other issues." ddnews. If the US is hoping to "consecrate" its relationship with India during Mr Modi's visit, Reuters, why is it creating problems for the present government, knowing how the previous Khaleda Zia government supported insurgent violence in the northeast of India and its close alliance with jihadi groups. Daily Pioneer. Bangladesh is to hold general elections in January 2024. wikipedia. Female wrestlers of India protesting against sexual molestation were persuaded by Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Thakur to pause their protest for police investigation. BBC. Why sports minister? Sexual assault is a serious crime in the West. The US may seem all sweetness and light at present but it could quickly turn into an iron fist in a velvet glove. Beware of the Jubjub bird.