Why India cannot do away with indirect subsidy
India’s stand at the WTO negotiations on signing up the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) may have greatly disappointed the US. In his recent visit to New Delhi, the US Secretary …
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Modi casts spell in Kathmandu, pushes right buttons
“Heart-touching”, “warm”, “magnetic”, “Hit”, and “super-duper” – these are just a few superlatives being used to describe the stirring speech given by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi to his captivated …
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Transforming Ties: Modi a big HIT in Nepal, India unveils $1 billion credit
HIT Nepal with Highways, I-ways and Tansways. India has just found a winning formula to transform its relations with Nepal as Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled $1 billion line of credit for a host of development projects in the neighbouring country. In the first prime ministerial visit from India in the last 17 years, Modi launched a charm offensive on his maiden visit to the picturesque Himalayan state, which is intimately bound with India by deep-seated cultural and religious ties.
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Modi’s visit to Nepal: A fresh start, full of possibilities
In this wide-ranging conversation with Manish Chand, Editor-in-Chief, India Writes Network, www.indiawrites.org, Mr Jayant Prasad, a former ambassador of India to Nepal, speaks about the importance of Prime Minister Modi’s August 3-4 visit to Nepal, the potential of hydropower cooperation which can transform Nepal into the richest country in South Asia, and his response to speculation about a developing India-China rivalry in the Himalayan state, a nascent democracy which is navigating its journey to national renewal.
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WTO deal: India places developed world in a spot
India has shown the industrialised countries they can longer have their way in multilateral trade negotiations at the expense of the developing world. The WTO General Council meeting that concluded in Geneva on July 31 failed to approve the protocol of amendment proposed by the 9th ministerial conference in Bali for enshrining the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) into the WTO Marrakesh Agreement.
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WTO deal collapses, India plays hardball
The efforts to reach a consensus on a Trade Facilitation Agreement failed at the World Trade Center as India stuck to its key demand that this agreement must be bundled …
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Taking India-US ties forward
There is a great deal of rhetoric flying around when it comes to India-US relations. In November 2010, addressing a joint session Parliament, President Barack Obama described the US India …
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Scripting a new chapter: India, US hold talks to set stage for Modi visit
Signalling an upsurge in India-US ties under the new leadership in Delhi, India and the US have concluded their fifth strategic dialogue to galvanise their strategic partnership and set the …
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India-US Strategic Dialogue: Focus on the Big Picture
There were expectations that the new Modi Government will set out new policies on many fronts, including foreign policy and security arena. But starting from his swearing-in ceremony to the …
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US needs to work harder to lift India ties: Kanwal Sibal
As India and the US hold their fifth strategic dialogue, Kanwal Sibal, well-known foreign policy analyst and a former foreign secretary of India, strikes a cautionary note. In this interview …
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