External affairs minister, at Global Technology Summit 2025, also spoke of India’s urgency to complete trade deals with US, UK and EU amid ongoing tariff wars.
While the bulk of the trade between India and Australia is so far in the energy sector, the FTA is expected to broaden this to include other goods and services.
In late November, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal had said India was looking to advance a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) with Bangladesh.
Pakistan plans to grow trade with 5 landlocked nations — Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan & Kazakhstan — to about $1.5 bn a year, said the commerce adviser to the PM.
Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it may not have the imagination.
Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.
21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
Recall Union Carbide. More recently, the vast compensation the US government extracted from British Petroleum for the
Deepwater Horizon oil spill, where there was environmental damage but only a handful of lives lost. Also recall Fukushima.
Recall Union Carbide. More recently, the vast compensation the US government extracted from British Petroleum for the
Deepwater Horizon oil spill, where there was environmental damage but only a handful of lives lost. Also recall Fukushima.