Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a series of bilateral meetings with his global counterparts on the margins of the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, with discussions focusing on a range of issues such as trade, investment, counter-terrorism and global challenges.
Lee Jae-myung's decisive victory in South Korea's snap presidential election marks a major political shift driven by public backlash against authoritarian, with significant implications for domestic reform and the future of the US-South Korea alliance, observes Dr Rajaram Panda.
S&P Global Ratings on Monday said several Asia-Pacific economies could face higher tariffs under the Trump administration, while India, South Korea, and Thailand could be most vulnerable to trade retaliation. In its report titled 'Asia-Pacific Economies Likely To Be Hit By US Trade Tariffs', S&P said economies like Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand, and South Korea have relatively greater economic exposure to the US, meaning that tariffs, if imposed, would have the largest economic impact.
India, South Korea sign 7 agreements to boost cooperation.
The visit of Park Geun-Hye to India, though a symbolic one, will certainly give a further impetus to the strategic partnership between the two countries says Rup Narayan Das.
China is likely to deploy Artificial Intelligence-generated content via social media to sway public opinion to boost its geopolitical interests during elections in countries like India, South Korea and the US, tech giant Microsoft has warned.
India and South Korea on Monday signed an agreement on transfer of sentenced prisoners and three other pacts and discussed the prospects of cooperation in civil nuclear field amid South Korea's keen interest.
India posted a comfortable 10-0 win over Bangladesh, while South Korea beat Chinese Taipei 8-2 in the Junior Asia Cup hockey tournament.
India and South Korea have reached an agreement on civil nuclear cooperation.
Arjun Erigaisi's win over In-Jung Gu came after a stiff fight with the Korean having gained an advantage before slipping up.
After FTA, duties were either cut or eliminated on 90 per cent of goods traded between the coutries.
India made the grade in the four-nation tournament in Japan after the Koreans beat Japan in the last league match.
India and South Korea have entered into a five-year defence cooperation accord by signing two memorandums of understandings on sharing of military expertise and technology.
But Indians work less than smaller countries with small populations like Bhutan, the Congo, Lesotho and Gambia.
Moon who is on a three-day visit to India arrived in New Delhi on Sunday evening.
Liquor market in the continent is growing twice as fast as the rest of the world.
Is likely to give another six-month reprieve from financial sanctions to India, South Korea, Turkey and others.
In Seoul, Nikhil Lakshman discovers, fears about North Korea and its bizarre ways are never far away.
It is not just the spectators but the players and coach of the Indian hockey team, who are equally disappointed with India losing the right to host of this year's Champions Trophy hockey tournament.
The self-proclaimed voice of the British business, CBI, has said India is both a threat and an opportunity for UK's manufacturing sector. Commenting on the government's "Growth Review Framework for Advanced Manufacturing", announced earlier this week, CBI has said UK manufacturers and government must be aware of the potential threat countries like India and China pose in the global marketplace.
The prime minister's directive, which came after general elections were announced, would postpone signing of the India-ASEAN and India-South Korea free trade pacts. Many believe that the prime minister put an embargo on the FTAs as model code of elections had come into force and such important policy issues would need to be looked into after polls.
Around 6% of the world's population is addicted to the internet.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to South Korea is considered essential in strengthening defence ties, enhancing economic cooperation and forging cultural ties between the two countries, says Dr Rahul Mishra
Under the India-South Korea Bipa, a party can drag the other to international arbitration if its investments are threatened.
'Only when China treats India as an equal can we consider them real friends.'
186,267 Indian students were studying in the US in 2016-2017.
India, which accounts for the third largest online userbase globally after China and the US, has had the lowest Internet penetration growth in Asia Pacific (APAC) at 17.4 per cent so far this year, research firm eMarketer said in a report.
The multinational search for the missing AirAsia flight entered the third day on Tuesday after a futile day-long scanning of the JavaSea where the Airbus 320-200 is believed to have gone down with 162 passengers and crew.
Any correction in Indian equities is an opportunity for investors to put in money for the long term
The benchmark Nifty rallied 1,000 points or 17% from 7,000 in 78 trading sessions since May 12, till date to surpass the 8,000 mark.
Tata, Adani, Lanco to be hit as Indonesia may ban export of low-grade coal
India, China and other countries that have been cutting their oil imports from Iran have reached a point where it is "very very difficult" to reduce any further without seriously impacting their economies, US Secretary of State John Kerry has told lawmakers.
There is enough scope for India and China to cooperate on nuclear energy issues despite the lingering issues which not only includes the Sino-Pakistan nexus, but also the Sino-India border dispute over the LAC, says Debalina Ghoshal.
Both India and South Korea will use President Park Geun-hye's visit to unveil a comprehensive programme for mutual benefit and impacting on regional security environment, says Srikanth Kondapalli.
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