External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday spoke to his counterparts from Kuwait and Singapore, focusing on the West Asia crisis as the US blockade of Iranian ports takes effect.

The UAE is India's trusted strategic partner in the middle east, from which substantial quantities of crude oil and natural gas are imported. Bilateral trade between the two nations reached $100 billion in 2024-25.

The announcement of his travel comes hours after the US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire, with President Donald Trump accepting Tehran's 10-point conditions and calling them "workable".

and had participated in the AI Impact Summit 2026.

Such moves are driven by bilateral dynamics between Washington and Islamabad, sources told NDTV.

"Met with Iran's Ambassador in India, Dr. Mohammad Fathali this afternoon. Discussed the conflict in West Asia," S Jaishankar wrote on X after the meeting.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar are members of the CCS, which is headed by PM Modi.

Riaz Hamidullah met a senior Indian cabinet minister for the first time since taking charge in May last year.

New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar and his Israeli counterpart Gideon Saar held a telephonic conversation on Thursday over the ongoing conflict in West Asia and its repercussions.

Talks have yielded "some results", and this is an "ongoing" process, External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar has said after Iran allowed two Indian-flagged gas tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, which Tehran has blocked

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has spoken to his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, three times in the past few days, his office said in a press briefing Thursday afternoon.

Parliament Budget Session2026 Highlights: Union Home Minister Amit Shah is expected to address the Lok Sabha today during the debate on the motion seeking the removal of Speaker Om Birla.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi held high-level discussions today with Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to address the shortage of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG).

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar told Parliament today that India had granted docking permission to an Iranian naval vessel at Kochi port on humanitarian grounds, describing the decision as "the right thing to do".

Dialogue and diplomacy are the only way out of the Middle East crisis, and the government is closely monitoring developments in the region that is home to millions of Indians, External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar said in Parliament today.

Opposition members have moved a resolution to remove Om Birla as the Lok Sabha Speaker.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday spoke about India's decision to allow an Iranian naval vessel to dock in Kochi amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, describing the ships as having been "caught on the wrong side of events".

Israel-Iran War: Iran launched a new wave of attacks Thursday morning at Israeli and American bases and threatened that the United States would "bitterly regret" torpedoing an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean

India is engaging with international partners more intensively and from a "position of strength", External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Tuesday, citing a string of recent trade agreements as evidence of the country's growing economic clout.

India is very much wedded to its policy of "strategic autonomy" and the country's energy procurement will be driven by factors like costs, risks and availability, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday met his counterparts from the G7 countries as he reiterated India's support for reform of the UN Security Council (UNSC) at the Munich Security Conference.

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram argued today that what India and the US have arrived at is not a deal but an interim agreement.

The "historic" India-US trade agreement is in the final stages of detailing that will be completed "very soon", External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday after holding wide-ranging talks with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The sudden breakthrough in the India-US trade negotiations was a result of multiple converging factors, Dhruva Jaishankar, Executive Director of the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) America, has said.