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.
Despite growing passenger volume, 11 out of 14 carriers reported losses in 2023-24. IndiGo recorded profit of Rs 8,167 crore, which reduced to Rs 7.253 crore in 2024-25.
Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).
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.
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.