ndia's Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Pakistan will not get water from rivers over which India has rights, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, a month after a deadly attack in Indian Kashmir led New Delhi to suspend a key river water-sharing treaty between the neighbours.

The suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, negotiated by the World Bank in 1960, was among a slew of measures announced by India against Pakistan last month after the April 22 attack that killed 26 men, mostly Hindu tourists.

New Delhi had said the attack was backed by Pakistan – an accusation Islamabad denied – and the nuclear-armed neighbours were involved in their worst military fighting in nearly three decades before agreeing to a ceasefire on May 10.

"Pakistan will have to pay a heavy price for every terrorist attack ... Pakistan's army will pay it, Pakistan's economy will pay it," Modi said at a public event in the northwestern state of Rajasthan, which borders Pakistan.

The Indus treaty provides water for 80% of Pakistan's farms from three rivers that flow from India but Pakistan's finance minister said this month that its suspension was not going to have "any immediate impact".

The ceasefire between the countries has largely held, with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar saying that there is no exchange of fire currently and "there has been some repositioning of forces accordingly".

"The (military) operation continues because there is a clear message...that if there are acts of the kind we saw on April 22, there will be a response, we will hit the terrorists," Jaishankar told Dutch news outlet NOS.

"If the terrorists are in Pakistan, we will hit them where they are," he added.

There was no immediate response from Pakistan to comments by Modi and Jaishankar.

India and Pakistan have shared a troubled relationship since they were carved out of British India in 1947, and have fought three wars, two of them over the Himalayan region of Kashmir, which they both claim in full but rule in part.

New Delhi also blames Pakistan for supporting Islamist separatists battling security forces in its part of Kashmir, but Islamabad denies the accusation.

The arch rivals have taken several measures against each other since the April attack in Kashmir, including suspension of trade, closure of land borders, and suspension of most visas.

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India says it has powers to suspend Celebi's clearance without warning

India's government told a court on Thursday it was well within New Delhi's legal powers to revoke Turkey-based Celebi's clearance to provide aviation ground services without giving it advance warning, given the matter concerned national security.

Celebi's clearance was cancelled by India last week amid growing public anger after Turkey supported Pakistan in the recent India-Pakistan conflict. Indians have also been boycotting everything from Turkish coffee, jams and chocolates to Turkey holidays.

Celebi asked the Delhi High Court this week to quash the cancellation by arguing it was issued without any warning and based on "vague" and unexplained "national security" concerns, but Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said on Thursday it did not need to share details of its reasons with the company.

Indian courts have previously held that in some cases national security concerns can outweigh the requirement of fairness and in this case, there was no need to comply with principles of natural justice, he said.

"In some situations, it is not possible to give reasons of action and neither giving a hearing is possible," Mehta said in the court in Indian government's first detailed remarks on Celebi's challenge.

The Indian government handed some details to Justice Sachin Datta in a sealed envelope. The case will next be heard on Friday.

Earlier in the day, Randhir Jaiswal, spokesperson for India's foreign ministry, said the Celebi matter had been discussed with the Turkish embassy in New Delhi.

Celebi argued in its court filing that the decision impacts 3,791 jobs and investor confidence. It added that it provided ground handling services at airports in New Delhi, Kerala, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Goa.

In defending Celebi's cancellation, Mehta also argued on Thursday that airport ground operators have detailed access to the physical infrastructure as well as passenger details including VIP movements.

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Why Indian consumers are boycotting Turkish goods

Supporters of Swadeshi Jagran Manch protest against Turkey for allegedly supporting Pakistan in the recent conflict with India.

India is staging an unofficial boycott of Turkish goods and services after Ankara backed Pakistan in the recent military and diplomatic standoff between the South Asian nuclear powers.

No formal trade ban exists but Indian distributors, online commerce platforms and travel companies are cutting ties with Turkish businesses, citing national interest.

The unofficial boycott started after president Turkish Recep Tayyip Erdogan voiced support for Pakistan in the wake of a terror attack in Kashmir which killed 26 people, mostly Hindu tourists, on 22 April.

India blamed the attack on Islamabad and cited it as justification for launching missile strikes on the neighbouring nation which precipitated this month’s military conflict.

Pakistan’s deployment of Turkish drones to target Indian military facilities only intensified anger against the Mideastern country.

“Our integrated air defence systems stood like a wall and they couldn’t breach it,” the Indian military’s director general of air operations said at a media briefing. “Whether it’s a Turkish drone or anything else, it fails in front of the technology of India.”

India imports goods worth over $2.7bn per year from Turkey, mainly mineral fuels, precious metals, processed foods and textiles. Turkish food exporters in particular were estimated to lose $234m a year after the All India Consumer Products Distributors Federation, which supplies nearly 13 million neighbourhood stores, declared an “indefinite and total boycott” of the country.

Indian social media has been abuzz in recent days with trending hashtags like #BoycottTurkey. Everyday Turkish items like chocolates, coffee, jams, biscuits and skincare products have begun disappearing from stores.

E-commerce platforms have followed suit, with Flipkart’s fashion arm Myntra removing Turkish clothing brands such as Trendyol, LC Waikiki, and Mavi. The decision was reportedly taken “in national interest”.

Ajio, owned by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance conglomerate, has delisted Turkish brands or marked them “out of stock” in a quiet nod to public sentiment.

Online travel booking platforms MakeMyTrip, Cleartrip, Ixigo and EaseMyTrip have paused or cancelled their services for Turkey.

Ixigo has extended its suspension of services to Azerbaijan and China, which have also been accused in India of aiding the neighbouring country during the recent conflict.

“Respecting the sentiments shared by all Indians at this time, we have suspended all flight and hotel bookings for Turkey, Azerbaijan and China. Our commitment is to act responsibly and in alignment with our country’s broader interests while prioritising the trust, safety, and interests of Indian travellers," the company’s CEO Aloke Bajpai told The Print. “Blood and bookings won’t flow together.”

EaseMyTrip said Indian travellers had “expressed strong sentiments over the past week, with bookings for Azerbaijan and Turkiye decreasing by 60 per cent” and overall cancellations surging by 250 per cent.

Billionaire Harsh Goenka was among the prominent voices joining the growing chorus of calls to boycott Azerbaijan and Turkey.

Indians had given tens of millions of pounds in tourism revenue to the two countries just last year and, thus, “created jobs, boosted their economy, hotels, weddings, flights” and yet, he alleged, they stood with Pakistan after the attack in Kashmir.

“Plenty of beautiful places in India and the world,” Mr Goenka wrote on X. “Please skip these 2 places. Jai Hind.”

Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, chief minister of the northern state of Himachal Pradesh, asked for halting the import of Turkish apples, which were worth £45m in 2024. Himachal is India’s main apple-growing region alongside Kashmir.

At the government level, New Delhi last week revoked the security clearance of Celebi Airport Services, paralysing the Turkish firm’s operations at nine major airports, including Delhi and Mumbai.

The move triggered a 20 per cent crash in Celebi’s shares and wiped about £150m off its market value. India was Celebi’s largest overseas market, contributing over £130 in revenue last year. Celebi took the matter to the Delhi High Court, but experts said legal relief was unlikely to restore lost ground.

The decision against Celebi affected over 3,800 Indian jobs but airport authorities claimed most workers would be absorbed by new vendors.

In another move to punish Turkey and Azerbaijan for their alleged backing of Pakistan, over 125 Indian trade leaders, under the Confederation of All India Traders, resolved to boycott all trade, tourism and business engagement with both countries.

They urged the Indian film industry and the corporate sector to avoid shooting films or ads in Turkey and Azerbaijan, warning of public boycotts if they did.

In a statement, the confederation declared that it would run a nationwide campaign to push economic disengagement as a patriotic response.

“It is deeply unfortunate that Turkey and Azerbaijan, who have benefited from India’s goodwill, aid and strategic support in times of distress, have chosen to side with Pakistan, a country known globally for its support to terrorism,” the trade body’s secretary general, Praveen Khandelwal, said. “Their position not only hurts India’s sovereignty and national interest but also directly insults the sentiments of 140 crore Indians.”

Kapil Surana, president of the Udaipur Marble Processors Association, told ANI news agency they had written to the prime minister asking for a ban on Turkish marble. “Business cannot be bigger than the nation,” he said.

This is not all. Colleges and universities across the country have severed ties and suspended student exchange programmes with Turkey.

Top public and private institutions like IIT Bombay, JNU, Jamia Millia Islamia, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Chandigarh University and Lovely Professional University have either completely shut off or temporarily halted their engagements with Turkish counterparts in response to the current situation.