FTA, India’s first bilateral trade deal with a Western nation, will see tariffs on whisky-gin from UK halved to 75 percent. Automobile tariffs will be cut to 10 percent with a quota.
EAM Jaishankar is on a tour of the UK and Ireland, where he will give momentum to a £41 billion trade partnership. Despite the progress, skepticism lingers in India-UK relations.
UK-India Partnership on AI, semiconductors & quantum computing also among 10 recommendations set out by the strategic advisory and policy advocacy organisation Thursday.
19 of 26 chapters in trade talks closed, but issues like informal labour, liquor tariffs & migration policies to be resolved. PM Modi & UK PM Rishi Sunak agreed to 'work at pace' towards FTA.
A consultant who is part of India-UK FTA talks says neither side has received any guidelines that trade talks have been halted on account of Khalistan issue.
India hopes to finalise trade agreement by March 2023 as earlier deadline passes. In an interview with ThePrint, UKIBC MD Kevin McCole says UK won't 'compromise quality for speed'.
The video captured the alienation between urban India and nature. To those who see air as something that needs to be purified, the sight of thick white mist feels suspicious.
Clean energy is “no longer the sideshow, it is the show”, BVR Subrahmanyam told the Odisha summit, warning India to lead the global shift or risk others’ tech dominance.
Dubai airshow crash & pilot death have rekindled concerns over pilot safety, and need for smarter automated systems that can step in when G-forces, temporary loss of consciousness hit the pilot.
None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.
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