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India and Australia have agreed to deepen their strategic ties by deciding to establish a Framework for Security Cooperation, with its most substantive element being the deepening of defence and …
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India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the “Make in India” initiative, which is aimed at increasing the manufacturing output within India. This is a welcome step towards harnessing India’s large labour force and resource base. However, the manufacturing sector in India has lagged in recent years, and to succeed several reforms are necessary to unlock the potential of India’s manufacturing sector.
Rebooting India’s manufacturing sector is a challenging but essential task. India has a huge potential for manufacturing a wide range of products ranging from traditional and cultural-related products to the most modern sophisticated products. Many of these products have good export potential that can be exploited. The example of the auto sector is a lesson to follow. India has become a major producer and exporter of automotive products including a wide range of 2, 3 and 4 wheelers and components. This has happened as a result of liberalization and integration into the global economy.
The “Make in India” campaign needs the widest possible support to succeed. The central and state governments, business and industry, and labour organizations must work together to achieve this goal.
The recently concluded G-20 Summit in Australia saw India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi strongly pitch for a new global standard on tax disclosure information to tackle the issue of unaccounted …
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It was a show like no other! For the thousands of Indians gathered at Sydney’s Allphones Arena on the evening of November 17 at least, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi was no less than a rock star. It was evident not just in the huge presence of members of the Indian community at the cavernous arena, but also in the manner in which they hung on to every word of his and cheered him on.
If the Rolling Stones Mick Jagger rocked the iconic sports complex in Sydney just a week ago, the Indian Prime Minister had Indian expatriates virtually eating out of his hands during his six-hour stay in Sydney. A stay during which he received a traditional Aussie welcome and a boomerang as a gift.
Mr Modi, in turn, played to the gallery as he tugged at their heart strings, his speech a mix of the emotional, the practical and even the humorous. The around 20,000-strong crowd, in turn, responded by frequently breaking into chants of ‘Modi, Modi’ as the Indian leader exhorted the rapturous crowd to return to their Motherland what they had got from it.
It’s Business with capital B as India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi began the bilateral leg of his visit to Australia with a strong sales pitch for garnering more investments. Interacting …
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Australia for the G20 Summit in Brisbane, and will then travel to Canberra for an official bilateral visit. Modi’s visit, taking place nearly 30 years after the last Indian Prime Ministerial visit (Rajiv Gandhi in 1986), comes at a critical time for both countries – when strategic equations are being redrawn, creating new Asian security dynamics.
India and Australia are engaged today in a variety of areas. They have growing defense ties in the form of consultations and multilateral exercises, as well as a broader security and strategic relationship that covers nuclear non-proliferation and energy security, both in coal and civil nuclear, and is likely to expand to solar and wind. The congruence of interests and ideas is indeed growing. However, it is important that India-Australia relations are not entirely viewed through the bilateral prism. Instead, the relationship needs to be based on regional security considerations about which Canberra and New Delhi share similar views.
BRISBANE: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the most sought after leader at the G20 summit of the world’s leading economies, says Suresh Prabhu, India’s Sherpa for the G20 summit …
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As US president Barack Obama met India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the gala dinner for G-20 dinner hosted in Canberra by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, the American leader could not but help remark to the Indian leader: “You are a man of action.”
In speaking thus, President Obama was possibly speaking not just for himself but for the galaxy of world leaders gathered for the G-20 Summit in the Australian capital as they queue up to have a bilateral meeting with Mr Modi, the most sought after leader at the G20 power pack gathering.
For the world is eager to engage with the new Modi-led government in the hope that it will take swift and clear decisions, particularly in the economic arena from which numerous countries stand to benefit. The diplomatic outreach by world leaders to the Indian prime minister was clearly evident on the margins of the G-20 multilateral meet on November 15. And not merely because for many among them it was their first opportunity to touch base with the new Indian leader but also because Mr Modi for now is perceived as a “doer”.
With China breaking away from the fold of the developing world India will have the hard task of defending the principle of CBDR, and urge for greater emission cuts in industrialised world. The China-US deal on climate talks and the India-US pact on food security can only facilitate talks on climate change and keep multilateral talks going, but a permanent solution to the problems is not in sight.
The extension of Peace Clause is just like a lolly pop. The real issue is ensuring free and fair trade and acknowledging the right of food security in developing countries as enshrined in the UN Millennium Development Goals.
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi prepares to leave for Brisbane for the G-20 summit, there is considerable excitement among India’s maritime analysts. On completion of the world leaders’ meet, the …
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