US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s 3-day visit to New Delhi, starting Tuesday, may give India and US a chance to sort out some of the irritants in their ties.
While the language war in other states is targeting those who can't speak the local language, in Bengal, even those whose mother tongue is Bengali have to constantly prove their Bengali-ness.
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.
Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
To be perfectly honest, India and the United States are not a marriage made in heaven. All of Asia – barring Pakistan and North Korea – is troubled by the rise of China. That shared concern is not cement enough to create the defining partnership of the 21st century and all the high sounding phrases that are uttered at the time of each summit. The whole world has profited from access to the US market. For India, it has sustained our IT industry, made it a global success story. However, India has missed the bus that a succession of Asian economies, starting with Japan and going all the way up to China, forty years later, have ridden to export led prosperity. Still a good, possibly even the best, friend. However, a complex relationship that is under considerable strain now.
To be perfectly honest, India and the United States are not a marriage made in heaven. All of Asia – barring Pakistan and North Korea – is troubled by the rise of China. That shared concern is not cement enough to create the defining partnership of the 21st century and all the high sounding phrases that are uttered at the time of each summit. The whole world has profited from access to the US market. For India, it has sustained our IT industry, made it a global success story. However, India has missed the bus that a succession of Asian economies, starting with Japan and going all the way up to China, forty years later, have ridden to export led prosperity. Still a good, possibly even the best, friend. However, a complex relationship that is under considerable strain now.