Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, "I do not claim victory. These are ideas which are under discussion in various fora. The sherpas have been discussing these ideas and it is a process of give and take. But I do claim some credit that in my speech, I brought the development issue into the very forefront of sustainable, manageable growth process."
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said some countries still use terrorism as "an instrument of state policy" and the world must act against radicalisation without any political consideration
Acknowledging that effective taxation of mobile income is a key challenge, G20 leaders including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday vowed to take steps to change rules to tackle tax avoidance, harmful practices and aggressive tax planning.
US President Barack Obama would meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit in Toronto, a top Indian official said Wednesday. "The Prime Minister would be traveling for the G-20, he will be meeting President Obama," Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma told Indian media-persons in Washington.
Reports (not denied by India) that the USA had 'for the first time provided real-time details to their Indian counterparts on the Chinese positions and force strength in advance of a PLA incursion' into Tawang at the LAC in December 2022, helping India thwart China's expansionist designs, show how operationally effective the USA-India friendship has become on the ground. A engaging excerpt from Sreeram Chaulia's must-read new book, Friends: India's Closest Strategic Partners.
Paris attacks took the centre stage at the G20 Summit on Sunday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling for a united global effort to combat terrorism as world leaders joined a clarion call to eliminate ISIS network.
India on Saturday favoured greater mobility of skilled labour
The unease in India-Canada ties was on display when Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday responded to a congratulatory message from his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau and said New Delhi looks forward to working with Ottawa based on mutual understanding and respect for 'each other's concerns'.
'Disengagement is merely the first step in a lengthy process of arriving at a new normal along the LAC in Eastern Ladakh and the entire land boundary.' 'The Indian government should insist on the restoration of the status quo ante in Eastern Ladakh.'
Canada has decided to rope in its content solution company, OpenText, to do a 'Facebook' on the negotiators.
Highlighting the need to arrive at a "balanced package" at the forthcoming Hong Kong Ministerial, the group of 20 leading economies of the world on Friday
'In terms of incentives, if you think about it, hybrids are a 20-year-old technology.'
Modi regretted that the international response to terrorism was weak and said more cooperation was needed to fight the menace.
The possibility of a meeting between United States President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during the G-20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, is not being ruled out, days after the two leaders agreed to work together to address the faltering global economy and the painful Eurozone crisis.
The leaders from the US, UK, France, China and others reached a historic agreement to put the group at the centre of their efforts to build a roadmap for durable recovery, avoiding the financial fragilities that led to the crisis.
'While on the one hand, terrorism continues to be a serious threat to global peace and security, on the other hand, areas such as cyber, maritime and space, are emerging as new theatres of conflict'
PM Modi went to New York this time not to engage in polemics, but to find solutions to global problems. He made some progress on several matters, even on reform of the UN Security Council, when the US made a major concession for the first time that six permanent members without veto, including India, could be considered
The new Cabinet member says growth cannot come unless all sectors of the economy -- agriculture, manufacturing and services -- expand.
PM Modi to travel to Vietnam before going to China to attend G20 summit.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in New Delhi after attending the G-20 summit in Pittsburg in the US, during which leaders of the world's richest and most influential countries resolved to continue the stimulus for the recession-hit global economy.
The Indian mrime minister supported a new global standard on automatic exchange of tax information
Prime Minister Narendra D Modi was rather selective about his famous hugs when he encountered his G20 guests at Bharat Mandapam on Saturday, September 9, 2023, morning.
The G-20, a group of developing countries including India, on Friday dismissed as "unacceptable" a 'blended formula' of tariff reduction in agriculture, proposed by the United States and the European Commission.
In view of the austerity measures, the Prime Minister's delegation for G-20 Summit in Pittsburg in the US has been pruned a bit. At least two officials and three members of the official media have been dropped from the delegation that will leave for the four-day visit on Wednesday, official sources said in New Delhi on Tuesday.
'To get a 100 per cent consensus document without any reservation, any bracket, any chair summary is unprecedented in the history of multilateral forums.'
In a statement before leaving for London to participate in the meeting of world leaders to discuss the economic meltdown, Singh also focussed on the need to ensure adequate flows of finances to the developing countries to overcome the reversal of international capital flows.
People everywhere, consumers and investors alike, are cancelling spending plans, because the world economy seems very risky right now. The same thing happened during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
it's just a matter of time, the former army chief said in response to a question.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to oppose suggestions to introduce a financial transaction tax, commonly known as tobin tax.
G20 finance ministers meet in London on Friday to chart the next steps out of the global economic crisis, with calls to curb bankers' bonuses as part of beefed-up financial market rules topping the agenda.
India should push the World Bank to focus on generating ideas and technology.
The White House has asserted that there is a commonality in the agenda of the new Obama administration and the leading G-20 countries on the front of financial crisis, and that the US president is looking forward to the economic summit next week.
Delhi wears an empty look as the capital police remain on high alert on the first day of the G20 Summit.
An influential G-20 alliance, spearheaded by India, Brazil and South Africa, on Monday mounted pressure on rich nations to substantially cut their lavish farm support in the wake of change in the world commodity prices.
Moody's Ratings on Tuesday said India's growing water shortage can disrupt farm and industry sectors and is detrimental to the credit health of the sovereign as rising food inflation and decline in income may spark social unrest. It said decreases in water supply can disrupt agricultural production and industrial operations, resulting in inflation in food prices and hence can be detrimental to credit health of sectors that heavily consume water, such as coal power generators and steel-makers.
India on Wednesday said it hopes the G-20 nations will pay heed to its call for a strong action on the issue of black money stashed in tax havens during their crucial summit in Cannes.
The world's 20 most important finance ministers and 20 most important central bankers travelled to Washington in April from every part of the globe to accomplish, predictably, exactly nothing.
The G20 has cited India among other countries for launch of major investment initiatives and for having a sustainable growth.
New Delhi has reached out to Moscow while waiting for a new president in Washington. New Delhi knows well that in international relations, there are no permanent friends or foes, only permanent national interests, points out Dr Rup Narayan Das.
The recent meeting of G20 finance ministers in Washington agreed to set up a surveillance system to monitor the economic performance of countries with the greatest potential for "spillover effects" - the economic impact that extended beyond their boundaries.
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