External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar at a press briefing, said that India is “perplexed” at Washington’s logic about New Delhi’s purchase of Russian oil.

Indians abroad are facing a storm – a surge in racial hostility that is fuelled by envy, stereotypes and far-right paranoia. They are admired and resented, successful and scapegoated, celebrated in official speeches but vilified in everyday life.

Samarath Bajwa shot physics teacher Gangandeep Singh Kohli at Guru Nanak School, hiding a pistol in his tiffin. Kohli is stable; probe ongoing.