ChatGPT parent OpenAI will open its first India office in New Delhi later this year, deepening its push in its second-largest market by user numbers.

ChatGPT owner OpenAI will open its first office in India later this year, as it looks to introduce more offerings into its second-largest market at affordable prices.Confirming the development on X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he will visit India next month.

Beijing's top envoy in New Delhi on Thursday expressed strong support for India, citing the steep US tariffs imposed against the country, and called for "teamwork" and "collaboration" between the world's two most populous nations in standing up to the "bully".

The rapprochement is not about Trump's tariffs, but easing tensions on the disputed Himalayan border, writes .

White House Trade Advisor Peter Navarro has made some starling and serious allegations against India. In his opinion piece in a leading newspaper earlier this week Navarro claimed that "what really drives this trade is profiteering by India's big oil lobby",

It comes as U.S. President Donald Trump imposed an additional 25 percent tariff on India for buying Russian oil.

The Income Tax Act, 2025, consolidates and simplifies India’s tax laws, cutting the number of sections from 819 to 536 and reducing chapters from 47 to 23.

Amazon is lobbying the Indian government to ease its foreign investment rules to allow the U.S. company to buy products directly from Indian sellers to sell in overseas markets, four people with direct knowledge of the matter said.

An Indian parliamentary committee on aviation has warned that staffing shortages at the country's air safety regulator and lack of air traffic controllers pose a threat to safety in one of the world's fastest growing aviation markets.