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<ul><li>A day after the <keyword id="70191" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="International-Court-of-Justice">International Court of Justice</keyword> (ICJ) delivered its verdict in Kulbhushan Jadhav case, India today asked Pakistan for Jadhav’s immediate return. </li><li>Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar, while speaking in the Parliament today said the government will put all efforts to bring Jadhav back to India. </li><li>The ICJ had yesterday announced that its Pakistan’s obligation to inform Jadhav his rights and allow India to provide counselor access to him. </li></ul>After the final verdict of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case yesterday, India today asked Pakistan to immediately release him and vowed to bring the retired Navy officer back. Yesterday, The International Court of Justice (ICJ) had in its final verdict directed Pakistan to suspend the death penalty on Jadhav given in 2017 for charges of sabotage and espionage. He will also be provided consular access which was denied by Pakistan. “Pakistan was found to have deprived India of the right to communicate with Jadhav, have access to him, visit him in detention, and arrange his legal representation,” S Jaishankar, the Minister of External Affairs (MEA), said speaking at both the houses of Parliament. Jadhav, the 47-year old retired <keyword id="6355100" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Indian-Navy">Indian Navy</keyword> officer was apprehended by Pakistan security forces in <keyword id="45793" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Balochistan">Balochistan</keyword> province of Pakistan. He was charged with espionage, three years back. In April 2017, he was sentenced to death on charges of espionage and terrorism. “Kulbhushan Jadhav is innocent of the charges made against him. His forced confession, without legal representation and due process will not change this reality,” Jaishankar further said. “We once again call Pakistan to release and repatriate him forthwith,” the minister said. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) had yesterday unanimously delivered the judgement that Jadhav must be given judicial representation, by a vote of 15-1. The judgement was welcomed across party lines and all thumped the benches as Jaishankar said that the government will vigorously continue its efforts to ensure his safety and well being, and his timely return to India. The ICJ clearly pronounced that the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations was breached by Pakistan as it did not notify India of Jadhav’s detention in time and deprived India of its right to communicate with and provide consular access to Jadhav. It is to be noted that the Court has asked Pakistan to provide for appropriate reparation of its own choice in the case. The minister termed the ICJ verdict as a vindication for not only India and Jadhav but also for all those who believe in the rule of law and respect and work by the international treaties.

Kulbhushan Jadhav is innocent, release him says India’s External Affairs Minister

<ul class="summary-list"><li>India can buy as much Russian oil as it likes, US Treasury Secretary Yellen told Reuters.</li><li>However, India can't use Western shipping, insurance, and financial services in such deals, she said.</li></ul>India can buy as much oil from Russia as it likes — even at prices above a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/g7-countries-price-cap-russian-oil-moscow-vows-cut-off-2022-9">G7 imposed price cap</a> — but stringent conditions apply, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exclusive-india-can-buy-much-russian-oil-it-wants-outside-price-cap-yellen-says-2022-11-11/">Reuters</a> Friday.Indian oil companies can purchase oil at any price they want, as long as they don't use Western services like insurance, finance, and maritime services which are bound by the price cap, Yellen said, per Reuters.Concerns have been mounting over increasing Russian crude oil exports to India, despite sweeping sanctions against Moscow to curb funding for its war in Ukraine. In October, <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/russia-india-crude-oil-iraq-eu-saudi-arabia-markets-energy-2022-11">Russia</a> surpassed Saudi Arabia and Iraq to become India's top oil supplier. Indian foreign minister <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/buying-russian-oil-is-indias-advantage-foreign-minister-2022-11-08/">Subrahmanyam Jaishankar</a> said last week his country will continue buying discounted Russian oil as the relationship has worked to India's benefit. An anonymous Indian official also told Reuters the country will not follow the G7 price cap mechanism. Despite India's proclivities towards Russian oil, Yellen appeared to be confident that Indian wouldn't find many substitutes for Western insurance, finance and maritime services."Russia is going to find it very difficult to continue shipping as much oil as they have done when the EU stops buying Russian oil," Yellen told Reuters, referring to a ban on most Russian crude imports by the European Union from December 5. "They're going to be heavily in search of buyers. And many buyers are reliant on Western services."Russian energy giant Rosneft is already working on a solution as the company is expanding its oil tanker chartering business, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exclusive-rosneft-moves-into-tanker-chartering-eu-ban-looms-2022-10-17/">Reuters</a> reported in October, citing three sources familiar with the matter. There are also <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/russia-oil-china-india-price-cap-g7-shipping-crude-us-2022-11">smaller insurance companies,</a> including Chinese ones, that would be willing to support the sale of Russian oil even at prices above the price cap, <a href="https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/oil/110722-shipping-russian-oil-flow-to-asia-may-not-slow-on-insurance-glitch">S&amp;P Global</a> reported earlier in November.But Yellen told Reuters that even with such additional capacity — which includes using a secretive network of ships — Russia will still "find it very difficult to sell all the oil that they have been selling without a reasonable price." The G7 is still working on details of the price cap for Russian oil, which will come into force on December 5, US State Department ambassador James O'Brien <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/g7-be-ready-with-details-russian-crude-price-cap-by-dec-5-official-2022-11-04/">told reporters</a> in Brussels on November 4.The G7 is counting on the price cap to slash the amount of oil revenue Russia will be earning, even if demand for the fuel persists. Russian oil "is going to be selling at bargain prices and we're happy to have India get that bargain or Africa or China. It's fine," Yellen said.The world has been struggling to replace Russian energy supply since the US, the EU, and their allies started imposing hard hitting sanctions against Moscow for the invasion of Ukraine.Germany, in particular, faces an imminent energy crisis as it was reliant on Russian natural gas, but its storage capacities are currently full, ahead of winter, the <a href="https://twitter.com/bnetza/status/1592488225515655168">German energy regulator</a> said on Tuesday.

India can buy as much Russian oil as it wants, Yellen says. The caveat: it can't use Western insurance, finance and maritime services.

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11894337" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="russia" source="Orion">Russia</keyword> has increased oil shipments out of the major port of Kozmino by about 20%.</li><li><keyword id="11892748" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="china" source="Orion">China</keyword> and <keyword id="11892747" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="india" source="Orion">India</keyword> have been snapping up discounted Russian oil amid sanctions and boycotts.</li></ul>Russia is shipping more oil to Asia as it looks to counter the impact of EU sanctions.Last Monday, the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/european-union-leaders-russian-oil-2022-5">EU agreed on a Russian oil ban</a> that stands to cut about 90% of Russian oil imports to the bloc by the end of the year. But demand from <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/oil-price-outlook-china-russia-tankers-cheap-crude-commodities-analysis-2022-5">China</a> and <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/india-russian-oil-imports-deal-rosneft-ukraine-war-sanctions-energy-2022-6">India</a> is robust, as Russia discounts its oil prices amid sweeping sanctions over the war in <keyword id="11985141" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ukraine" source="Orion">Ukraine</keyword>.To meet Asian demand, Russia has increased shipments by about 20% out of the major port of Kozmino in the east of the country, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/exclusive-russia-hikes-oil-exports-major-eastern-port-help-offset-eu-ban-2022-06-07/">Reuters</a> reported on Tuesday, citing three sources familiar with the matter.The exports from the port are pumped via the East Siberia Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline operated by Transneft. The Russian pipeline company has increased the amount of <keyword id="12107782" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="crude-oil" source="Orion">crude oil</keyword> pumped to Kozmino by 70,000 barrels a day, Reuters reported. On top of the piped oil, Russia also plans to send an additional 80,000 barrels of crude oil a day via rail to Kozmino from Siberia.Transneft did not respond immediately to Insider's request for comment sent outside regular business hours.Much of the oil is headed to China and India, neither of which has condemned Russia's actions in Ukraine. <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-says-not-deliberately-circumventing-sanctions-russia-2022-04-02/">Beijing</a> has <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-accuses-united-states-of-creating-panic-sanctions-against-russia-2022-2">criticized sanctions against Russia.</a>India, meanwhile, has hit back at criticism that it's funding the war in Ukraine through its purchases. In May, the <a href="https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1822665">Indian petroleum and natural gas ministry said</a> Russian <keyword id="11917806" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="energy" source="Orion">energy</keyword> accounts for a "miniscule" proportion of its consumption and that a sudden stop to crude shipments would jack up global oil prices and hurt consumers."We don't send people to buy Russian oil, we send people to buy oil in the market, buy the best oil," Indian foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Friday, per <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/india-defends-oil-imports-from-russia-export-ban-on-wheat/articleshow/91988719.cms">Economic Times.</a>Jaishankar also called out the rest of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-putin-cannot-spend-energy-exports-revenue-germany-habeck-sanctions-2022-6">Europe</a> for its massive Russian natural-gas purchases. "Why it's only Indian money and fund coming from India and not gas coming to Europe which funds war, let's be even-handed out here," said Jaishankar, per Economic Times.Former White House press secretary <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/04/11/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-april-11-2022-2/">Jen Psaki said in April</a> India isn't violating sanctions by buying Russian oil.

Russia is sending more oil to Asia as China and India continue to snap up cheap barrels, bolstering Moscow's revenues despite EU sanctions

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="3658" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="India">India</keyword>'s delegation to the <keyword id="107692" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="G7">G7</keyword> is self-isolating after two of its members tested positive for COVID-19.</li><li>India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said he would attend his meetings virtually.</li><li>India's second wave accounted for a quarter of global <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> deaths last week.</li></ul>India's foreign minister is self-isolating after two members of the country's delegation to the G7 meeting of foreign ministers in <keyword id="6354968" type="LOCATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="london">London</keyword> have tested positive for COVID-19."Two delegates tested positive so the entire delegation is now self isolating," a British official told <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/covid-scare-g7-meeting-after-indian-delegates-test-positive-sky-2021-05-05/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Reuters</a>.Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, India's foreign minister, said on <a href="https://twitter.com/DrSJaishankar/status/1389854062762409987">Twitter</a> that he was made aware of possible exposure to the virus on Tuesday and said that he would now attend Wednesday's G7 meeting virtually "as a measure of abundant caution."A source told Insider that the Indian delegation has yet to attend the G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting at Lancaster House so did not pose a risk to the summit.They added that all delegates took daily COVID-19 tests, wore masks, and practised social distancing.India is battling a record-breaking surge of the virus that has overwhelmed hospitals, morgues, and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-coronavirus-dead-cremation-parking-lots-overflow-2021-4">crematoriums</a>. Hospitals are struggling with a critical oxygen shortage.Rapidly spreading coronavirus variants are perhaps the biggest culprit for India's new surge.The variant first found in the country, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-variants-uk-south-africa-brazil-us-facts-questions-2021-1">B.1.617</a>, is in <a href="https://cov-lineages.org/lineages/lineage_B.1.617.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fact three distinct viruses</a>. Collectively, they have spread to 17 countries, according to the WHO. All three have been detected in the US, <a href="https://cov-lineages.org/lineages/lineage_B.1.617.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to GISAID.</a>But <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-coronavirus-cases-deaths-lesson-stay-alert-2021-4">a number of other factors</a> also contributed to their spread: massive social gatherings, a slow vaccine rollout, and a healthcare system that was woefully unprepared for the influx of patients.India accounted for <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-deaths-india-one-quarter-global-count-2021-5">one in four global deaths from the coronavirus</a> last week, the World Health Organization said, as well as 46% of global cases. The country has reported a total of <a href="https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">226,188 deaths</a> since the start of the pandemic - the third highest, behind just the US and Brazil.India is not a member of the G7, an intergovernmental organization which includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the <keyword id="6354868" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="UK">UK</keyword>, and the US, but it is attending this week's meeting.The G7 is holding its annual summit in Cornwall in June - the group's first face-to-face summit in two years.

Two coronavirus cases have been confirmed among the Indian delegation attending the London G7 meeting

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Sergei <keyword id="13256778" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="lavrov" source="Orion">Lavrov</keyword> has arrived in India for two days of talks, including with Narendra <keyword id="11893655" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="modi" source="Orion">Modi</keyword>.</li><li>It comes just hours after <keyword id="13013008" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="liz-truss" source="Orion">Liz Truss</keyword>'s plea for India to stop buying cheap Russian oil was rejected.</li></ul>India welcomed <keyword id="11894337" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="russia" source="Orion">Russia</keyword>'s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov for talks on Friday after rejecting the UK's plea to <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/russia-crude-oil-west-sanctions-china-india-2022-3">cut its use on the country's cheap oil</a>. India's external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar held lukewarm talks with UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on Thursday, in which he shrugged off her request to buy discounted oil from Russia following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.Lavrov's delegation on Friday was granted an audience with India's Prime Minister, a high-level engagement which Truss did not receive.India was among a small number of nations that did not vote against Russia's invasion of Ukraine at the UN, opting to abstain. It has not joined Western efforts to sanction the Russian economy. Speaking at a policy exchange economic forum in New Delhi, Truss warned that oil and gas revenues were helping to fund Vladimir <keyword id="11909347" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="putin" source="Orion">Putin</keyword>'s war efforts, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/31/india-defends-buying-discounted-russian-oil-despite-appeal-by-truss">according to the Guardian</a>. She said: "If Putin was successful, if he was able to have success invading a sovereign nation, what message does that send to other aggressors around the world?"While she did not name India, she praised countries such as Australia, South Korea and Singapore for participating in.She said: "I think countries across the world, regardless of their specific size, status or structure, understand there is a fundamental problem if an aggressor can get away with invading a sovereign nation, and that does violate international law and violates the UN charter."But Jaishanker pushed back, by observing that European consumption of Russian gas was going up despite the sanctions regime.Europe exempted Russia energy imports from the sanctions, a reflection of its heavy reliance on Russia for power.Jaishanker said Europe had bought "I think, 15% more oil and gas from Russia, than the month before."During Friday's meeting, the Russian foreign minister was expected to call on India to bypass Western sanctions and increased its purchases of Russian oil and gas, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60939406">the BBC reported</a>. There is no love lost between Truss and Lavrov. When the pair held talks aimed at averting Russia's invasion, they gave a frosty press conference in which Moscow's foreign minister branded the meeting "a dialogue of a mute person with a deaf person".During his two-day visit to India, which comes after a trip to China, Lavrov was also scheduled to meet Jaishankar, as well as India's prime minister Narendra Modi, who did not meet Truss."We are living through a serious stage in the history of international ties. The outcome of this stage will substantially clarify the international situation. We will move towards a multipolar, equitable and democratic world order with China and like-minded nations," Lavrov said ahead of his flight to New Delhi. Reporting the talks, <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/russian-foreign-minister-sergey-lavrov-to-meet-pm-modi-jaishankar-101648778407470.html">local media outlet the Hindustan Times</a> described Russia's invasion as a "special military operation." The phrase is the preferred terminology of the Kremlin, which has banned Russian media from using words like "invasion" or "war."On Thursday, British Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan was critical of India for having "chosen to sit on the fence", although said she recognised "they have connections in both directions". <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-india-shouldnt-be-sitting-on-the-fence-over-russias-invasion-says-trade-secretary-12578510">The minister told Sky News</a> that "standing up for democratic nations and peaceful borders" was "something that we want to see everyone doing". India's neutrality during an invasion in which thousands have been killed does not sit easy, she said.

India grants Russian FM audience with Modi after rejecting UK request to stop buying discount Russian oil

<ul class="summary-list"><li>US President <keyword id="99719" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="joe-biden" source="Orion">Joe Biden</keyword> told <keyword id="11892747" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="india" source="Orion">India</keyword>'s <keyword id="11895802" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="narendra-modi" source="Orion">Narendra Modi</keyword> that buying more <keyword id="13337215" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="russian-oil" source="Orion">Russian oil</keyword> isn't in the country's interest.</li><li>He said Washington stands ready to help India diversify its sources of energy.</li></ul>US President Joe Biden asked India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to increase purchases of Russian <keyword id="11896879" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="oil" source="Orion">oil</keyword>, saying it isn't in the country's best interests to do so.In an hour-long video call Monday, Biden said the US could help India diversify its sources of energy, but stopped short of making a "concrete ask" of Modi, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/indian-pm-modi-suggests-direct-talks-between-putin-zelenskiy-2022-04-11/">Reuters</a> reported, citing an official."The president … conveyed that we are here to help them diversify their means of importing oil. The imports from the United States are already significant, much bigger than the imports that they get from Russia," White House spokesperson Jen Psaki told reporters, according to Reuters.India, the world's third-largest consumer of oil, doesn't get much of its supply from Russia. In 2021, it purchased about <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-60783874">12 million barrels</a> from Russia, making up only 2% of its total imports."The president also made clear that he doesn't believe it's in India's interest to accelerate, or increase imports of Russian energy, or other commodities," Psaki added. Psaki didn't specify whether India had made any commitment towards Russian energy imports.Russia's war against Ukraine has led the US and its allies to impose sweeping sanctions, including bans on oil and other commodities. Oil is a key source of revenue for Russia, the world's third-largest producer, but it has fallen out of favor with a number of its consumers. Both the US and the UK have banned Russian oil imports. The European Union hasn't yet done so because it's more reliant on Russian supplies.Beyond Europe, India and China have been <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/russia-crude-oil-west-sanctions-china-india-2022-3">buying cargoes of cheap Russian oil</a>. Neither country has overtly condemned Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. But Psaki said India has now spoken out more forcefully against reported atrocities, "particularly as it relates to the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/videos-showing-russian-atrocities-in-ukraine-flood-social-media-2022-3?r=US&amp;IR=T">horrific photos that we saw around Bucha</a>." "Recently, the news of the killings of innocent civilians in the city of Bucha was very worrying," Modi said on Monday. "We immediately condemned it and have asked for an independent probe."Modi said he had recently suggested to Russia that President <keyword id="11899444" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="vladimir-putin" source="Orion">Vladimir Putin</keyword> and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy hold direct talks.Still, unlike other members of the Quad countries – the US, Japan, and Australia — India hasn't imposed direct sanctions on Russia. It's purchased at least 13 million barrels of Russian crude since the invasion, according to Reuters.India abstained when the UN General Assembly last week voted to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-suspended-from-un-human-rights-council-over-ukraine-invasion-2022-4?r=US&amp;IR=T">suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council</a> over its atrocities in Ukraine.Indian external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Monday defended India's oil purchases from Russia."I suspect, looking at the figures, probably our total purchases for the month would be less than what Europe does in an afternoon," he said.A US official told Reuters that "we haven't asked India to do anything in particular," adding that the Modi government will make its own judgments after a candid conversation."We've seen them take steps to provide humanitarian assistance and a range of assistance, but it is something we always encourage leaders to do – to speak out, to be vocal, to ensure they are on the right side of history," Psaki said about the Indian government.Read More: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stock-picks-to-buy-high-upside-investing-tips-goldman-sachs-2022-4">GOLDMAN SACHS: Buy these 18 deeply oversold stocks that have upside of at least 50% over the next year</a>

The US urges India not to step up imports of Russian oil as other nations wean off their reliance

<ul><li>Subrahmanyam Jaishankar was India’s top diplomat till January 2018. </li><li>He had joined the Tata Group as the President of Global Affairs after retiring from service.</li><li>Jaishankar is an expert on foreign affairs in US and Europe to China, Japan, and southeast Asia.</li></ul>Subrahmanyam Jaishankar was India’s top diplomat till January 2018. Three months later, <a href="http://www.tata.com/htm/Group_Investor_GroupFinancials.htm">the $145 billion Tata group</a>, comprising over 100 companies that produce everything from steel to software, announced that Jaishankar would take over as its president for global corporate affairs. In March 2019, Jaishankar had received the Padma Shri award from President Ram Nath Kovind. Now, he has been appointed as the Minister for External Affairs in the Modi government that has come back to power for a second consecutive term. He was the country's longest-serving foreign secretary and has helped craft much of Modi's foreign policy. He joined Indian Foreign Service in 1977 and served as Indian Ambassador to the United States in 2014 and 2015. He was India's ambassador to China from 2009 to 2013, and to the Czech Republic from 2001 to 2004. He also planned and executed a highly successful maiden visit of Prime Minister Modi to the US in September 2014 and his landmark address to the Indian diaspora at the Madison Square. A major highlight of his diplomatic career was his tenure as Joint Secretary in-charge of Americas Division from 2004 to 2007 when he was involved in negotiating the historic Civil Nuclear Agreement. He also led the Indian team of negotiators for the subsequent 123 Agreement with the US, which was linked to the Civil Nuclear deal and concluded in 2009. Jaishankar's tenure as India's Ambassador to China from 2009 to 2013, which was the longest by any IFS officer, coincided with several major developments in bilateral relations. It was his briefing to the Cabinet Committee on Security in 2010 regarding China's refusal to issue a visa to the Northern Army Commander which led to suspension of Indian defence co-operation with China and military exercises, before the matter was resolved in April 2011. Also in 2010, Jaishankar negotiated an end to the Chinese policy of issuing stapled visas to Indians from Jammu and Kashmir. Jaishankar also had to do <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/national-politics/what-all-can-the-court-overlook-in-the-rafale-matter-723110.html" data-type="tilCustomLink" target="_blank">some fire-fighting for the Modi government</a> as a foreign secretary when the opposition parties raised the ante on the final deal to purchase 36 Rafale fighter jets from French company Dassault. "Jaishankar has an extremely good relationship with Modi, even before his term as foreign secretary," G Parthasarathi told India Today. Jaishankar is also the son of K Subrahmanyam, an extremely influential foreign affairs expert in the country, a journalist and a former civil servant. He played a key role in determining India's global stance on key issues including the country's nuclear doctrine. With inputs from IANS SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/new-cabinet-ministers-ravi-shankar-prasad-gets-eit-communication-and-law-and-justice/articleshow/69594535.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink" target="_blank">Ravi Shankar Prasad retains all his ministries in Modi 2.0 government</a>

Modi's new Foreign Minister S Jaishankar is a career diplomat and former Tata Group employee

<ul><li>The five businesses that made the most <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="news">news</keyword> in the year are <keyword id="6355199" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="reliance-industries">Reliance Industries</keyword>, <keyword id="6358200" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="jet-airways">Jet Airways</keyword>, Amazon India, <keyword id="46894" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Tata-Sons">Tata Sons</keyword> and <keyword id="6354706" type="DEFINITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="IndiGo">Indigo</keyword> Airlines.</li><li>A report made by the technology led PR platform Wizikey shared insights into what made these companies the newsmakers of 2019. </li><li>From Reliance’s AGM to Jet Airways downfall, it was a mix of good and bad that brought these companies in the news.</li></ul>2019 was a year of headlines – from Indian general elections to the economic slowdown. Businesses have been at the receiving end – from those which shut shop to those that opened new doors to success. The top five businesses that generated the most news are Reliance Industries, Jet Airways, Amazon India, Tata Sons and Indigo Airlines, according to a report by the technology-led PR platform Wizikey. They stayed in the news for both good and bad reasons. Reliance Industries Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance recently created history in the stock market with its market cap crossing ₹10 lakh crore. It was the first Indian company to do so. But that wasn’t the only news that caught everyone’s attention. The stock and the company has been buzzing especially during the second half of the year. According to the Wizikey report, Reliance holds the credit for one-third of the total news created by the top 5 companies. The busiest news month for the company was in August, when it held its annual general meeting. At the AGM, Ambani made major announcements -- like fundraising apart from unveiling next-gen technology. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="70638299" title="Mukesh Ambani's speech at the Reliance Industries AGM had ten big takeaways" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div>

 Jet Airways The Indian airlines shut shop in April this year and not surprisingly, that was the month it was mentioned the most. The report said that the most common buzzwords around Jet Airways were “flight cancellation, aircraft grounding, insolvency proceedings, debt resolution and management takeover”. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="69878191" title="It’s official-- Jet Airways is bankrupt, declares a Indian court on the same day the share price jumped 93%" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div>

 IndiGo Accompanying Jet Airways in the newsmakers sector, was one of India’s largest airlines – IndiGo. Having gained from the collapse of Jet Airways, with more bookings coming its way, IndiGo too had its fair share of trouble. A feud between its founders Rahul Bhatia and Rakesh Gangwal over company’s control took an ugly turn. Both of them had landed in the courts in July 2019, after Gangawal’s sensational expose on the workings of the airline. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="71740625" title="Indigo debt has swollen by seven times in one year" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div>

 Amazon India Amazon India has been generating both good and bad news this year. “Amazon saw itself being mentioned the most throughout the year - for all the wrong reasons,” said the Wizikey report. October was the month of most mentions, after the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade called in the e-commerce giant for its <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/ecommerce/news/headline-amazon-dismisses-deep-discounts-and-says-sellers-set-their-own-pricesamazon-dismisses-deep-discounts-and-says-sellers-set-their-own-prices/articleshow/72450155.cms">deep discounts</a> and possible foul play. But it was also the festive month, where Amazon’s great sales kept it in the news. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="70222978" title="Amazon India sets up ‘war rooms’ to handle Prime Day pressure" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div>

 Tata Sons Tata Sons owe their “newsy” year to one person – Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, when he was appointed the Minister for External Affairs. Jaishankar held the post of President, Global corporate affairs at Tata Sons, which is why his appointment in the ministry shared the spotlight on the company. But that’s not all. “Rumours around Jaguar being sold to BMW saw Tata mentioned in the news early in the year,” said the report. Tata’s interest in Jet Airways too got them a lot of space in the papers. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="71802900" title="Not just Tata Motors, a lot of other companies are excited by Jaguar Land Rover numbers" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div>

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">China Daily via ReutersIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan, China, in April 2018.</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>Muslims in Xinjiang, China, are being surveilled and locked up en masse by regional authorities who see them as terrorists whose religion are akin to a disease or cancer.</li><li>Meanwhile, India revoked the autonomy of the mostly-Muslim region of Jammu and Kashmir, and is building detention camps for ethnic Bengalis - most of them Muslim - in the northeastern state of Assam.</li><li>There are several parallels between these two countries' actions - both claim their projects are to prevent violence and explicitly told other countries to butt out of their affairs.</li><li>The rest of the world is too powerless to stop these economic powerhouses from continuing their mass internment projects.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>China and India, two economic powerhouses with some of the largest populations in the world, are brutally oppressing their ethnic and religious minorities. But the international community is loathe to rebuke them.In <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/xinjiang">Xinjiang</a>, Chinese authorities have installed the equivalent of a 21st-century police state, with the Uighur ethnic minority monitored by electronic spyware, and locked up en masse in prisons and detention camps. Uighurs call the region East Turkestan.In August, Indian authorities revoked the semi-autonomy of the disputed territories of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/kashmir">Jammu and Kashmir</a>, and placed the region under an internet and phone blackout that largely remains today.Residents - many of whom are Muslim - have been placed under virtual house arrest, unable to worship on holidays or <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-kashmir-trade-lockdown-ruins-apple-economy-2019-9">harvest crops</a>.In Assam, northeast India, officials are also building internment camps to hold hundreds of mostly-Muslim ethnic-Bengalis, whom the state has declared illegal immigrants because their names are not included on the National Register of Citizens.Many of them have lived in India their whole lives, but their citizenship documents are nonexistent, lost, or riddled with spelling errors. Indian authorities <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/india-implement-nationwide-citizenship-count-191120122109336.html">said this week</a> they want to extend the policy throughout the country, making activists grow more fearful for Muslims' safety."In Assam, the camps are currently set up within existing prisons," Angana Chatterji, co-chair of the University of California, Berkeley's Initiative on Political Conflict, Gender, and People's Rights told Business Insider."Reportedly about 600 to 700 people are being held in them," she said, adding that the prisons and camps being built "are being likened to concentration camps."Though Xinjiang, Kashmir, and Assam are hundreds of miles apart, they all seem to follow the same playbook.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Anuwar Hazarika / REUTERSShefali Hajong, a laborer whose name has been excluded from India's National Register of Citizens, at a construction site for a detention center in Goapara, Assam, in September 2019.</div></div></div><h2>Both countries target Muslims to 'prevent violence'</h2>China has repeatedly claimed that its actions in Xinjiang are a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-tries-to-cite-islamophobia-to-export-model-of-muslim-repression-2018-11">counterterrorism measure</a>, and even <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-tries-to-cite-islamophobia-to-export-model-of-muslim-repression-2018-11">cites Islamophobia</a> to justify its actions. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-uighur-detention-camps-cleanse-religion-leaked-documents-nyt-2019-11">Leaked Communist Party documents</a>, published last week by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-detention-directive.html">The New York Times</a>, shows authorities referring to Uighurs' religion as a cancer, disease, or drug addiction.Meanwhile, India's External Affairs Minister <a href="https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/indian-external-affairs-minister-on-kashmir-climate-trump-a-1296790.html">Subrahmanyam Jaishankar</a> has said the country cut off Kashmir's internet and communications to fight radicalization and "prevent the loss of life." Locals and law-enforcement officials <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kashmir-villagers-allege-beatings-abuse-electric-shock-india-denies-2019-8">have been involved</a> in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kashmir-man-blinded-pellets-police-insist-no-major-injuries-2019-8">violent clashes</a>, and thousands of people have been detained.Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, which is built on Hindu supremacy, has also capitalized on local Hindu suspicion in Assam of ethnic Bengalis, who have different ethnic identities, religions, and languages, said Meenakshi Ganguly, the South Asia director of Human Rights Watch.Amit Shah, the country's home minister, has referred to illegal Muslim immigrants in India as "<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/india-election-speech/amit-shah-vows-to-throw-illegal-immigrants-into-bay-of-bengal-idUSKCN1RO1YD">termites</a>" and threatened to throw them into the Bay of Bengal. The government has justified its actions in Assam as a matter of national security.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Anuwar Hazarika / REUTERSLaborers at a school building at a construction site for a detention center in Goalpara district, Assam, in September 2019.</div></div></div><h2>Ethnic tensions are an 'internal matter'</h2>Both China and India have batted away international criticism by <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-lawmakers-bill-punishing-china-over-uighur-muslim-persecution-2018-11">insisting that those issues</a> are <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-tells-un-to-back-off-after-alleging-xinjiang-has-1-million-in-camps-2018-9">internal matters</a> - and to an extent, their tactics are working.The Chinese government forbids foreign journalists from entering Xinjiang to report, opting instead to organize <a href="https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-china-xinjiang-usa/u-s-official-denounces-choreographed-visits-to-chinas-xinjiang-idUKKCN1R503T">heavily-choreographed</a> and chaperoned tours to the region that involve bizarre performances of Uighurs dancing or learning Chinese in classrooms. At least two such trips have taken place.Beijing has repeatedly dismissed reports of physical and psychological torture in those camps, claiming instead that they are "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-calls-xinjiang-uighur-detention-camps-free-vocational-training-2018-10">free vocational training</a>" - even though many of the detainees doctors, journalists, or other professionals.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">ReutersA perimeter fence constructed around a detention camp for Uighurs in Dabancheng, Xinjiang. China calls this a "vocational skills education center."</div></div></div>India, meanwhile, has repeatedly said that the Kashmir issue can only resolved bilaterally between India and Pakistan, citing <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-negotiate-in-kashmir-pakistan-india-2019-7">two historic agreements</a> on the matter. The issue of illegal immigration in Assam and elsewhere is <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/india-implement-nationwide-citizenship-count-191120122109336.html">a matter of national security</a>, according to Indian politicians. In October, Indian authorities took a group of mostly right-leaning Members of the European Parliament on a tightly-controlled trip to Kashmir, which included a stay in a luxury hotel and a peaceful boat ride, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-50231022">the BBC reported</a>. The delegation did not witness any clashes or detentions.But Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a vocal critic of Indian policy in Kashmir, was barred from entering Kashmir during a trip to India in early October."I was told it was not a good time" by Indian authorities, Van Hollen told Business Insider. "India's actions are fueling the more extreme elements on the ground," he added, referring to anti-India militants in the region, many of whom are funded by Pakistan.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Adnan Abidi/ReutersSmoke rises from teargas shells fired by Indian security forces in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir state, in August 2019.</div></div></div>Darren Byler, a Uighur expert and University of Colorado researcher, said the Chinese and Indian government tours are likely helping quell foreign criticism."I think the people that go on those tours, they understand that this is being staged for them, at least to some extent," he told Business Insider."But they also see it as a way of justifying, saying they've done their due diligence, and they've taken a look at what's happening on the ground - so they can sign off, check the box, to say they've looked into the box, and say there's nothing there."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Thomas Peter / REUTERSA Chinese police officer armed with an automatic weapon gestures towards reporters in Yining, Xinjiang, in September 2018.</div></div></div><h2>Criticism will not be tolerated</h2>China has repeatedly batted away criticism over Xinjiang, saying that its policies helped clamp down on terrorism and violence in the region. Shortly after The Times published the leaked Uighur files, the Chinese foreign ministry <a href="https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/web/wjdt_674879/fyrbt_674889/t1716742.shtml">said</a> its tactics in the region were "worth learning from."India, meanwhile, has <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kashmir-crisis-india-accuses-media-fake-news-using-trump-playbook-2019-9">embarked on a disinformation campaign</a> regarding Kashmir, accusing the BBC and Reuters of lying about massive protests in the region <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kashmir-india-accuse-bbc-reuters-lying-about-protests-despite-video-2019-8">even though they were recorded on video</a>.While both China and India's actions are driven by nationalism, it's important to note that they're not coordinating on tactics - the two countries have an <a href="https://thediplomat.com/2019/06/modi-2-0-and-indias-complex-relationship-with-china/">extremely complicated relationship,</a> due in part to China's encroachment near Indian territory and its friendly relationship with India's main rival, Pakistan.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">REUTERS/Adnan AbidiA signboard on the Indian side of the Indo-China border at Bumla in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, in 2009. China calls the state South Tibet.</div></div></div><h2>Too big to punish</h2>Another similarity between the Xinjiang, Kashmir, and Assam crises is the lack of tangible, international action against them.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/islamic-world-stopped-calling-out-chinas-muslim-persecution-2019-4">Not a single Muslim country is standing up to China over its actions,</a> either to preserve existing economic ties or in response to Chinese threats to suspend future investment. Many Western countries have publicly criticized China's actions in Xinjiang - but have taken limited steps to stop the atrocities.The European Union, for example, has told China to "<a href="https://www.france24.com/en/20190509-eu-urges-china-change-situation-xinjiang">change</a>" its actions but has not taken any tangible steps to ensure it. The 28-nation bloc lacks a coherent view toward China - and Beijing has capitalized on this disunity by <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-china-playbook-to-pit-eu-countries-against-each-other-2019-3">pitting EU countries against each other to prevent a united policy</a> that could hamper its plans.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Philippe Wojazer/ReutersEuropean Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Elysée Palace in Paris in March 2019.</div></div></div>Last month the <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2019-22210.pdf">US Commerce Department blacklisted</a> 28 Chinese companies, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-blacklists-china-ai-startups-2019-10">including eight highly-valued AI startups</a>, in response to their role in the "implementation of China's campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention, and high-technology surveillance" against Muslims in Xinjiang.The sanctions were hailed as a good first step, but there is no evidence of change in China's activities, or any indication that the US will take further measures.An executive at Dahua, one of the sanctioned tech firms, even <a href="https://ipvm.com/reports/dahua-strong-sanction">appeared to celebrate</a> after the announcement, telling <a href="http://www.nbd.com.cn/articles/2019-10-18/1379375.html">a business newspaper</a>: "The fact that we are under the US control list shows that we indeed have a strong technological capability."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Associated Press/Andy WongXi and US President Donald Trump at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing during Trump's state visit in November 2017.</div></div></div>"I think there's a lot of rhetoric - people want to care, they want to project that they're caring, but when it actually comes down to some kind of human or economic cost, they're not willing to take that step," Byler, the Uighur expert, said."They also point a finger at the Muslim-majority countries, saying: these countries aren't even taking a stand at all, or they're supporting the Chinese state," he added. "So that helps them feel justified in saying, 'at least we're condemning it, we've taken that step.'"Aside from written statements of concern, the US has not taken any concrete action against India over its crackdown in Kashmir and Assam either.The House Asia subcommittee <a href="https://sherman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/asia-subcommittee-to-hold-a-hearing-on-human-rights-in-south-asia-on">held hearings</a> on human-rights violations in the region in late October, and the US Commission on International Religious Freedom <a href="https://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/2019%20India%20Issue%20Brief%20-%20Religious%20Freedom%20Implications.pdf">issued a report</a> this week noting their concern over India's using the citizenship list to tacitly set a religious requirement on citizenship and oppress Muslims.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Mukhtar Khan / Associated PressA Kashmiri woman walks past paramilitary soldiers in Bijbehara, south of Srinagar, Kashmir, in October 2019.</div></div></div>The US is also "highly unlikely" to impose economic sanctions on India over Kashmir, a former US diplomat specializing in South Asia told Business Insider, noting that Washington hasn't sanctioned Pakistan for harboring militants in Kashmir either. The source had declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue.But "that doesn't mean that it's okay to apply a communications blockade on an entire region, and put a bunch of people who are mainstream politicians and who used to be in alliances with the ruling Indian government, into preventive detention," the person said.An appropriate venue to raise India's actions in Kashmir would be at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHCR) the diplomat said. But the fact that the US, the most powerful country in the world, quit the UNHCR - <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/44537372">calling it "hypocritical and self-serving"</a> - has effectively neutered its leadership in human rights and leverage to condemn India's human rights abuses.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Denis Balibouse/ReutersThe UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, in March 2019. The US quit the council in June 2018.</div></div></div>There is also evidence to suggest that UNHCR condemnations don't work: Earlier this year 22 mostly-Western countries <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-joint-letter-condemn-muslim-oppression-no-islamic-signatories-2019-7">wrote a joint letter</a> slamming China's "arbitrary detention and restrictions on freedom of movement of Uighurs, and other Muslim and minority communities in Xinjiang."The harsh language of the letter was outweighed <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/syria-saudi-nk-support-china-uighur-prison-camps-xinjiang-2019-7">by 37 other countries</a> - including Syria and North Korea - standing up for China.And in September, amid the Kashmir blackout and Assam's citizenship crisis, Trump <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-plays-unusual-role-of-warm-up-act-at-massive-rally-for-modi-in-houston/2019/09/22/18cf7a2a-dd50-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html">hosted Modi at a rally in Houston, Texas</a>, where Modi defended his government's actions in Kashmir.What China and India are doing to their Muslim minorities is bleak. 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