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A week before Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama are scheduled to meet on the sidelines of the UNGA session, India and the US are set to hold their first Strategic and Commercial Dialogue (S&CD) in Washington on September 22. The dialogue will firm up the agenda and flesh out outcomes for the much-awaited Modi-Obama meeting in New York on September 28
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The India growth story will come under a closer scrutiny in the US when Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets the corporate elite and digital billionaires in New York and San …
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Is India’s growing relationship with the US, as epitomized by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second visit to the US in a year, directed against China? Beijing thinks so, but Washington is wary of such a spin.
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India and the US are inching closer towards jointly developing a next-generation aircraft carrier to bolster Indian Navy’s blue water capabilities, according to a top Pentagon official. The first meeting …
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Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the US, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has already launched an outreach to the US investors, allaying their concerns about the business environment in India and making a strong pitch for scaling up bilateral trade and investment. Assuring a fair and predictable taxation regime, Mr Jaitley invited US investors to invest in various sectors, including infrastructure, manufacturing and defence.
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In the backdrop of India’s decision to restart oil and gas exploration off the Vietnam coast despite objections from Beijing and New Delhi’s Act East policy, a state-run Chinese think …
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The new economic reforms unveiled by the Indian government have the potential to create a positive investor sentiment in the US, ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to New …
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In a shot in the arm for the Narendra Modi government ahead of his US visit, the US Department of Labour has cleared Indian IT giant Infosys of visa violation charges. The non-immigrant visas of H-1B and L-1 are the most sought after visas in the US by foreign workers to work in high skill technology sectors and Indians get the maximum number of these visas in the US. However, it has been a major point of contention between India and the US, with India pushing the US to liberalise the visa regime in this category.
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In another case that India has lost to the US in recent times in the WTO, a WTO panel gave a ruling against India over its solar power programme, requiring …
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India and the United States met at the US Department of State in Washington DC on August 11 and 12 for the 2015 US-India cyber dialogue. They have committed to robust cooperation on cyber issues to increase global cyber security and promote digital economy.
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