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Swiss ratification clears way for India‑EFTA mega trade pact in October

July 11, 2025

New Delhi: Switzerland has finally completed the ratification process for a landmark trade deal between India and the European Free ...

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U.S. Treasury Secretary signals new trade deals ahead of July 9 tariff hike deadline

July 7, 2025

New Delhi: United States' Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Sunday said that Washington is close to reaching agreements on several trade ...

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India-US trade pact: Piyush Goyal meets Lutnick

May 23, 2025

New Delhi: Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal Friday held his second meeting with US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in ...

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India trade pact coming soon, says Vance; calls Modi a tough negotiator

May 2, 2025

New York: US Vice-President J D Vance has called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “tough negotiator” and accused New Delhi ...

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US Treasury Secretary expects India to strike first trade deal

April 24, 2025

New York: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent expects India to strike the first trade deal with Washington because the issues ...

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India, Oman aiming to seal mega trade deal soon

January 15, 2025

Muscat: India and Oman are looking at sealing a broad trade and investment pact this year that will cut tariffs ...

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India-Australia trade deal to make big difference through closer economic cooperation: High Commissioner O’ Farrell

February 16, 2023

New Delhi: The India-Australia trade deal would make a "big difference" through closer economic cooperation between the nations, Australian High ...

China renews war threats as Taiwan launches its military exercises Beijing: China Thursday renewed its threat to attack Taiwan following almost a week of war games near the island. Taiwan has called Beijing's claims to the self-governing democracy “wishful thinking" and launched its own military exercises. Taiwan's “collusion with external forces to seek independence and provocation will only accelerate their own demise and push Taiwan into the abyss of disaster,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a daily briefing. “Their pursuit of Taiwan independence will never succeed, and any attempt to sell the national interest will be met with a complete failure," Wang told reporters. China's attempt to intimidate the Taiwanese public and advertise its strategy for blockading and potentially invading the island was nominally prompted by a visit to Taipei last week by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The US, Japan and allies have denounced the exercises, with the Group of Seven industrialised nations issuing a statement at a recent meeting expressing its concern. On Wednesday, Britain's government summoned Chinese Ambassador Zheng Zeguang to the Foreign Office to demand an explanation of "Beijing's aggressive and wide-ranging escalation against Taiwan”. Taiwan says Beijing used Pelosi's visit as a pretext to raise the stakes in its feud with Taipei, firing missiles into the Taiwan Strait and over the island into the Pacific Ocean. China also sent planes and ships across the midline in the strait that has long been a buffer between the sides, which separated amid civil war in 1949. In a lengthy policy statement on Taiwan issued Wednesday, China distorted the historical record, including the United Nations' 1972 resolution that transferred the China seat on the Security Council from Beijing to Taipei, Taiwan's Cabinet-level Mainland Affairs Council said. The Chinese statement also discarded a pledge not to send troops or government officials to Taiwan that was contained in previous statements. The UN resolution makes no mention of Taiwan's status, although China regards it as a foundational document proclaiming the Communist Party's right to control over the island. The Taiwanese council's statement said China was orchestrating its moves against Taiwan ahead of the ruling Communist Party's 20th National Congress to be held later this year. President and party leader Xi Jinping is expected to receive a third five-year term at the conclave, after leading a relentless crackdown on political figures accused of corruption, human rights activists and civil society groups. Xi's suppression of free speech and political opposition in Hong Kong was also seen as a factor behind Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen winning a second term in 2020. China says it plans to annex Taiwan under the now widely discredited “one country, two systems" format applied in Hong Kong. The concept has been thoroughly rejected in Taiwanese public opinion polls in which respondents have overwhelmingly favoured the status-quo of de-facto independence. The Chinese statement is “full of wishful thinking, and ignores the facts," the Mainland Affairs Council said in its press release. The “crude and clumsy political operations by the Beijing authorities further highlight its arrogant thinking pattern of attempting to use force to invade and destroy the Taiwan Strait and regional peace," the release said. “The authorities in Beijing deceive themselves. We warn the Beijing authorities to immediately stop threatening Taiwan with force and spreading false information," it said. Taiwan placed its military under high alert during the Chinese drills but took no direct countermeasures. It held artillery drills off its southwestern coast facing China that ran through Thursday, illustrating the challenges the People's Liberation Army would face were it to launch an invasion across the strait. AP China, Taiwan

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US to hold trade talks with Taiwan, island drills military

August 18, 2022

Hualien (Taiwan): The US Government Thursday announced trade talks with Taiwan in a sign of support for the island democracy ...

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison cooks ‘khichdi’ to celebrate trade deal with India

April 10, 2022

Canberra: To celebrate the new trade deal with India, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison Saturday took to Instagram to post ...

British PM Rishi Sunak committed to FTA with India, says Downing Street

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Trade deal in mind, UK mulls offering cheaper, easier visas to Indians

January 2, 2022

London: The UK is planning to relax immigration rules by offering cheaper and easier visas for Indian tourists, students and ...

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War of Attrition

February 25, 2026

President Vladimir Putin of Russia believed he could finish off, within months, the conflict that he started on European soil...

February 24, 2026

In the just concluded AI Summit at New Delhi, the government of India has majorly played up the issue of...

February 22, 2026

Once bitten, twice shy is an old idiom. But when it comes to US President Donald Trump, it loses its...

February 22, 2026

By Aakar Patel The Bharatiya Janata Party has been governing Gujarat for about 30 unbroken years now. Notionally Gujarat is...

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