Jaishankar and Rubio both reaffirmed their commitment to stronger US-India ties especially in technology, defence, and energy.

EAM S Jaishankar arrived in Washington at the invitation of the US Government to witness Donald Trump's inauguration as the 47th President of the United States. His meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, representing the world's largest and oldest democracies, was held at the State Department's Foggy Bottom headquarters.

On his first full day as secretary of state, Marco Rubio is meeting with his counterparts from a group of countries known as the Quad: the United States plus India, Japan and Australia, representing nearly 2 billion people and more than a third of global GDP.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet India's external affairs minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday in Washington for their first bilateral discussi

The two ministers affirmed a shared commitment to continuing to strengthen the India-US partnership, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said in a readout after the meeting.

The lawsuit challenging the president’s executive order marks the beginning of what is expected to be a protracted legal battle over immigration policy.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with his Quad counterparts - India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Japan's Takeshi Iwaya, and Australia's Penny Wong - at the US Department of State here on Tuesday.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to have his first bilateral meeting with India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in Washington. The meeting will occur after the QUAD ministerial at the State Department headquarters.

First meeting of Trump presidency for security group focused on Indo-Pacific voices opposition to altering status quo 'by force or coercion' Just hours after being sworn in as US secretary of state on Tuesday,