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.
Fauja Singh, 114, died after being hit by a speeding car. His death renews questions about India’s deadly roads, rising accidents, and poor traffic discipline.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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.