More than a week after schools and businesses reopened, traffic levels are edging back to pre-lockdown levels, yet there’s little sign of people taking to cars en masse.
The announcement comes a day after PM Morrison signed a crucial defence agreement with India and upgraded ties, as both nations navigate fraught relations with China.
The bilateral summit earlier scheduled to take place in India in January got postponed due to the bushfire crisis in Australia. PM Morrison said he missed 'Modi hug' & 'Gujarati khichdi'.
China imports between 2 million to 3 million tons of Australian barley, considered the best, as domestic production can not meet quality requirement of breweries.
Adani’s Carmichael coal mine project in Australia is predicated on the notion that it is an economically viable venture with a positive net present value.
Whether Australia has so far escaped the virus from skill or luck is impossible to know, but in the long term, it needs to maintain a heightened state of vigilance.
Chinese officials have drawn up a list of potential goods that could be subject to stricter quality checks, anti-dumping probes, tariffs or customs delays.
Australia, whose biggest customer for barley is China, had fuelled tensions by calling for an independent investigation into the origins of the pandemic.
India cannot be blasé about change in any important capital in the world. Let's look at five key areas where US policy matters for India and how it may vary between Harris and Trump.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
Troops patrolled up to Patrolling Point (PP) 10 on Monday. Though there are PP 10, 11, 12, 12A & 13 in Depsang Plains, it was decided that only one or two PPs would be patrolled.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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