India has decided it won’t join any trade deal that has China as a member. But RCEP member nations are likely to sign deal despite Beijing’s belligerence.
A report by Radio New Zealand said raids were conducted to take photographs of code books used to encrypt communications between Indian government officials and its diplomats.
James Cameron's return to New Zealand to shoot his Avatar sequel shows how the country can leverage its new super power — being Covid-free — to boost economy.
New Zealand, which had declared it was Covid free, saw new cases after 2 sisters, who returned from UK, were allowed to leave quarantine early without a Covid test.
New Zealand is one of the few countries in the world to have successfully eradicated the pathogen, and the first among those that suffered a sizable outbreak.
As of June 4, New Zealand has had 20 consecutive days of zero new cases, with only one active case remaining. But some cases may emerge soon as rules are relaxed.
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.
Sensible decision. Apart from our confrontation with China another reason is that India as of now is not ready or should I say competitive enough to join RCEP.
Carry out reforms, develop skills of your youth(other than IT related), build physical infrastructure, focus on domestic manufacturing and then open up your economy for a healthy competition.
Without these reforms, RCEP would result in Indian economy being owned by the Japanese, Koreans and the Chinese. Forget being a superpower or a ‘Great power’, India would end up looking like a client state, where our regional politicians would become puppets of major foreign corporations, pretty much like East India company in the 18th century.
We should have woken up 70 years ago.
We had better wake up.
Sensible decision. Apart from our confrontation with China another reason is that India as of now is not ready or should I say competitive enough to join RCEP.
Carry out reforms, develop skills of your youth(other than IT related), build physical infrastructure, focus on domestic manufacturing and then open up your economy for a healthy competition.
Without these reforms, RCEP would result in Indian economy being owned by the Japanese, Koreans and the Chinese. Forget being a superpower or a ‘Great power’, India would end up looking like a client state, where our regional politicians would become puppets of major foreign corporations, pretty much like East India company in the 18th century.