Goanet Digest, Vol 21, Issue 263

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Today's Topics:

   1. Read: "Rubio?s Visit Offers No ?Real Medicine? for Wounds to
      Relationship With India" (Vivek Pinto)
   2. Ms Elizabeth receives Prof Leboino Magdalena memorial award
      (Nelson Lopes)
   3. Elizabeth claims late Fr Bruno award (Nelson Lopes)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 17:19:51 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Read: "Rubio?s Visit Offers No ?Real Medicine? for
	Wounds to Relationship With India"
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By:  Anupreeta Das - Reporting from New Delhi
Published in: *The New York Time*s
Date: May 27, 20226
The secretary of state visited India to reassure the South Asian giant that
it can still rely on the United States. India did not gain much from the
visit.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited New Delhi this week to reassure
India of its importance, but analysts mostly saw the trip as little more
than a salve applied to deep wounds inflicted by the Trump administration?s
policies on trade and immigration, and the war in Iran.

President Trump?s blow-hot, blow-cold approach to India is a stark contrast
from that of previous U.S. presidents, who sought to maintain good
relations with India. India needs civil and stable ties with the United
States, its biggest export market, and doesn?t want to attract the ire of
Mr. Trump, which could disrupt its economy or jeopardize its ability to
meet its enormous energy needs.

India, which imports 90 percent of its crude oil, had come under pressure
last summer after Mr. Trump slapped a punitive 25 percent tariff on India
for buying Russian oil. It was lifted in February after India agreed to
limit purchases of Russian oil. The Iran war and closure of the Strait of
Hormuz also greatly reduced India?s access to oil, prompting Prime Minister
Narendra Modi to ask his fellow Indians to work from home to save fuel.

The main issue is a ?lack of consistency that we have seen in the Trump
administration?s engagement with India and a lack of a public commitment to
this relationship,? said Harsh V. Pant, a visiting professor of
international relations at King?s College London.

Mr. Trump has upended many of India?s assumptions about the nature of its
relationship with the United States: The bedrock was an economic
partnership, with a marginal role for Pakistan and cooperation in the
Indo-Pacific region. Mr. Trump?s tariffs, his close relationship with
Pakistan?s leaders and his seeming desire to cultivate stronger ties with
China have called all of those assumptions into question.

That has left India without a framework for engagement, Mr. Pant said.

Mr. Trump?s recent meeting with President Xi Jinping of China has added to
India?s worries about its place in U.S. foreign policy. Several U.S.
administrations maintained ties with India, the world?s most populous
country and one of its fastest-growing economies, because they saw it as a
counterweight to China. India was happy to play that role, especially under
Mr. Modi, who had cultivated a close relationship with Mr. Trump in his
first term in office.

India is concerned that it would lose its value to the United States and
become dispensable once the U.S. relationship with China stabilizes, said
Constantino Xavier, an expert on South Asia at the Centre for Social and
Economic Progress, a research institute based in New Delhi.

Mr. Trump and Mr. Xi?s meeting might not lead to anything, Mr. Xavier said,
but it has made Indian officials anxious about becoming the U.S.
president?s ?backup plan,? to be used as a tool to threaten China when he
wants. ?The dispensability is increasing, and the utility is decreasing,?
he said.

Mr. Rubio insisted during his visit that India was one of America?s ?most
strategic partners in the world.? Mr. Trump joined Mr. Rubio in doling out
praise, dialing in live at a reception in New Delhi on Sunday to call Mr.
Modi a ?great friend,? and reassure India it could count on him.

?And anything India wants, they get,? Mr. Trump said.

Many Indians say they are getting the opposite of what they want. Its
students and workers have been hurt by the Trump administration?s
immigration restrictions. Mr. Rubio defended the policies at a news
conference, insisting that they are ?not a policy targeted at Indians.?

Beyond the reassuring talk, analysts said, it?s been hard to distill what
India secured from America from Mr. Rubio?s visit.

?The visit was a good painkiller, but some real medicine is needed to
revive the relations,? Dr. Xavier said. That medicine would involve a
?fundamental political reset between both leaders,? he added, such as a
visit by Mr. Trump to India or significant breakthroughs in trade and
defense deals.

The two sides did sign a framework agreement to cooperate closely on
securing supplies of critical minerals. And India?s commerce ministry said
on Wednesday that a U.S. delegation will visit India for another round of
trade talks.

In a measure of its concerns about its relationship with Washington, India
has struck several partnerships with other countries, including the
European Union trading bloc.

The last day of Mr. Rubio?s visit was dedicated to discussing the Quad, a
group of four countries ? the United States, India, Japan and Australia ?
intended to build maritime cooperation and ensure safe routes for commerce
in the Indo-Pacific. Although it was never explicitly stated, one of the
Quad?s main goals was to be a check on China?s influence in the region.

Not much appeared to materialize from this week?s daylong Quad summit.
Analysts said that the group can only be functional if the United States
remains an active participant. With Mr. Trump focused on his priorities in
China, his level of interest in the Quad is unclear.
Pragati K.B. contributed reporting.
Anupreeta Das covers India and South Asia for The Times. She is based in
New Delhi.


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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 17:54:26 +0530
From: Nelson Lopes <[email protected]>
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!"
	<[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Ms Elizabeth receives Prof Leboino Magdalena
	memorial award
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P .C.Trust.
Congratulations.
Ms. Elizabeth Maria Ivette Mascarenhas daughter of Mr.Erlic & Eng. Yasmin
Mascarenhas  ,resident of  First Palvem  ,Chinchinim.Her score at SSC,
GBSHSE , April 2026  is 548..Student of St Mary of the Angels H. School.
She ranked SECOND amongst the schools of Chinchinim and gets Prof.Leboino &
Maria Magdalena Mendes  maiden memorial award of Rs 2500.with citations
citations,instituted by son MrJohnny &Mrs.Sandra Mendes ,Dandeavado,USA.
Headmistress Sr.Flavia Vaz .
Nelson Lopes
Chairman
Nelson Lopes
Chinchinim
https://lopesnelsonnat.wordpress.com


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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 18:55:45 +0530
From: Nelson Lopes <[email protected]>
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!"
	<[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Elizabeth claims late Fr Bruno award
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P.C.Trust
Fr.Bruno Leitao maiden  Memorial award.
A pious , devoted and admired,respected  priest ,R/O
Tolleaband, Chinchinim

Ms Elizabeth Maria  Ivette Mascarenhas  ,St Mary of the Angels
H.S.Chinchinimm  stood SECOND amongst Chinchinim Schools with a score of
548 marks, at  SSC.GBSHSE April 2026.
She receives.Rs2500=  with citations ,award founded by Mr& Mrs
Polly/Sharlet Vaz  .Tolleaband ,Chicago, USA
D/ O Mr.Erlic & Eng.Yasmin Mascarenhas,  residents of First Palvem
,Chinchinim
Granddaughter of late Dr.Olivio Mascarenhas
Headmistress Sr.Flavia Vaz
  Mascarenhas
Nelson Lopes
 Chairman
Nelson Lopes
Chinchinim
https://lopesnelsonnat.wordpress.com


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