At the first-ever bilateral summit between PM Modi & his UK counterpart Boris Johnson, both leaders also agreed to launch negotiations on a free trade agreement.
For the moment, Bangladesh is stuck between a rock and a hard place, although foreign minister S. Jaishankar has said that India will fulfil its commitments.
India, UK were to agree on a Roadmap 2030 for re-energised relations across trade and investment and climate action, which is now likely to be signed off remotely.
Addressing a virtual conference inaugurated by Modi, the British PM hailed Indian PM's 'fantastic leadership' in areas such as renewable energy in the fight against climate change.
Amid reports that doses were causing blood clot-related complications, Johnson said that six months since its discovery, multiple countries like India are producing the vaccine.
The British PM is aiming to overhaul UK's international policies after Brexit and making it clear he regards the Indo-Pacific as increasingly the geopolitical center of the world.
It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.
While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.
It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.
To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.
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