India And US

The TPF aims to iron out key trade and investment-related issues between India and its largest trade partner - the US

Visiting US official speaks about 'shared goals' on climate change, debt burden of developing countries

There is great merit in expanding the partnership between India and the United States towards a knowledge-based economy, a top Indian American corporate leader said on Tuesday, asserting that a successful collaboration would result in a number of joint efforts in matters of mutual interest. With India and US demographics, industrial might, and technological entrepreneurism, the two nations form a natural partnership, Vivek Lall, chief executive of the General Atomics Global Corporation, told students at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. University's India Caucus, a student organisation that aims to promote India-centric discourse, had organised an interactive session on defence, innovation, and technology with Lall. He was recently honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award by US President Joe Biden. Given the shared values of India and the United States, this relationship enjoys strong bipartisan support in both the countries, and there is great merit in ...

India, as a member of the UNSC, abstained on a vote condemning Moscow's "annexation" of Ukrainian territory. To add insult to injury, Modi told Zelenskyy there was "no military solution" to it.

India would be "happy and willing" to negotiate a trade pact with the US, provided America decides to look for a new free trade partner, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal has said here. He said the US administration, as a policy, is not looking at a free trade agreement (FTA) with any new partner. "Should they change their mind, India would be happy and willing to discuss. Without that also, we are engaged in attracting investment, technology, trade between the two countries," the minister told reporters here. During the Trump administration, India and the US had discussed a mini-trade deal to boost economic ties. Meanwhile, addressing the US India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF), Goyal said talks for a trade deal are progressing with Canada. "Canada (Minister of International Trade Mary Ng) and I are very confident that we would be done with our early progress trade agreement by December," he said. On the proposed India-Israel agreement, the minister said: "I stil

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal will hold bilateral meetings with his American counterparts next week in the US to discuss ways to boost trade and investments ties, an official said. The minister will be on a six-day visit to San Francisco and Los Angeles from September 5. During the visit, Goyal will participate in the two-day ministerial meeting of Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) on September 8 and 9 in Los Angeles, the official said. He will meet US Trade Representative Katherine Tai and US Secretary of Commerce Gina M Raimondo on the sidelines of the IPEF ministerial meeting. The IPEF was launched jointly by the US and other partner countries of the Indo-Pacific region on May 23 at Tokyo. It seeks to strengthen economic partnership amongst participating countries with the objective of enhancing resilience, sustainability, inclusiveness, economic growth, fairness and competitiveness in the region. The 14 members of IPEF are -- Australia, Brune

India is in an advanced stage of negotiations with the US to procure 30 MQ-9B Predator armed drones at a cost of over USD 3 billion to crank up its overall surveillance apparatus along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China and in the Indian Ocean, people familiar with the development said on Sunday. The long-endurance-hunter-killer drones are being procured for the three services as they can carry out a variety of roles including maritime surveillance, anti-submarine warfare, over-the-horizon targeting and hitting stationary ground targets. The MQ-9B drone is a variant of MQ-9 "Reaper" that was reportedly used to fire a modified version of the Hellfire missile which eliminated al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in the heart of Kabul last month. Authoritative sources in the defence establishment said talks between New Delhi and Washington are underway for the government-to-government procurement of the drones manufactured by US defence major General Atomics, and rejected reports

According to HSBC Holdings Plc. report in Bloomberg, Singapore will take over Australia and have Asia's highest share of millionaires in the adult population by 2030

A joint exercise between the special forces of India and the US began in Himachal Pradesh's Bakloh. The drill aims to improve inter-operability between the special forces of both the countries

Green finance could become a bright and robust strand of the growing India-US economic relations in the next 25 years, India's envoy said

India Friday rejected its criticism it in a US State Department report on religious freedom, saying it is unfortunate that "vote bank politics is being practised in international relations". External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said the observation on India in the report is based on "motivated inputs and biased views". The annual report on international religious freedom, released by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, alleged that attacks on members of the minority communities, including killings, assaults, and intimidation, took place in India throughout 2021. "We have noted the release of the US State Department 2021 Report on International Religious Freedom, and ill-informed comments by senior US officials," Bagchi said. "It is unfortunate that vote bank politics is being practised in international relations. We would urge that assessments based on motivated inputs and biased views be avoided," he added. Bagchi was responding to media queries on the report "A

During his US visit, the minister said he received a positive response from American leadership for co-development, co-production and investments in research and industry in India

Both nations hope to reach some kind of understanding to resolve issues pertaining to agriculture, non-agriculture goods, services, investments, over the next six to eight minths

Bilateral trade between both nations expected to surpass $100 billion mark

US Trade Representative says priority is to iron out market-access restrictions

While the agenda for Katherine Tai's visit has not yet been disclosed, the two sides are likely to discuss issues on market access, including tariffs, by reconvening India-US Trade Policy Forum

India-US strategic partnership was revamped after Biden administration took charge

US lawmakers urge the Biden administration to make the military available to bring additional urgent medical supply donations to the country

Biden was an early supporter of the India-US relationship and his administration will continue to prioritise the defence and security partnership with New Delhi, Barrack Obama-era administration said

The meeting was attended by the US and Indian energy firms