The European Commission’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas and European Commissioner for Trade Maros Sefcovic hold a press conference in Brussels, Belgium on September 17, 2025.
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The European Union has set out a plan to upgrade its strategic ties with India, even as it warned that India’s military exercises with Russia and its purchase of Russian oil are risks to the growing strategic ties between Brussels and New Delhi. The European Commission and the EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas released ‘A New Strategic EU-India Agenda’ on Wednesday (September 17, 2025) in Brussels and urged the European Parliament and Council (i.e., the heads of member states) to adopt it. Ms. Kallas called India a “crucial” partner for the EU, as she outlined the strategy that encompassed trade, technology, security, defence and climate.A Delhi court on Wednesday (September 17, 2025) declined to urgently hear journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta’s appeal against an injunction restraining him from publishing allegedly defamatory content about Gautam Adani’s Adani Enterprises Limited (AEL). District Judge Rakesh Kumar Singh of the Rohini court said the matter, arising from a September 6 injunction, would be taken up on September 18. “It will be heard tomorrow at 10 a.m.,” he said. “What if your client doesn’t publish for two days? Is it a matter of life and death?” the court added, dismissing the plea for an urgent hearing. Published - September 18, 2025 06:47 am IST
