Instead of free trade agreement, India and US 'focusing on greater market access and ease of doing business'. Social security agreement on cards as PM Narendra Modi begins America visit.
When Modi's plane touched down in New York, TV reporters who had flown out for the state visit were thrilled. Arnab Goswami on Republic TV was screaming: 'The entire world is looking.'
When Narendra Modi and Joe Biden compliment each other as torchbearers of democracy and champions of global stability, they will be trading stock phrases bleached of meaning and substance.
Under protocol, state visits are only for foreign heads of state & not heads of government like PMs. To get around this, US has come up with another category: 'official state visit'.
Washington wants India to be a strategic counterweight to China while Modi is seeking to raise the influence that his country, now the world's most populous, has on the world stage.
The Prime Minister, on his historic state visit to the US, interacted with personalities such as investor Ray Dalio, Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
December oil imports from Russia may drop nearly 50%, but Indian buyers already shifting to non-designated Russian entities and opaque trading channels to keep Russian oil flowing.
New Delhi is interested in firming up bilateral agreements for increased trade, mobility, upgrade of Su-30 MKI fighters and the increased range of BrahMos supersonic missiles.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
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