Best of BS Opinion: Strategic defence partners, climate change, and more

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinions

While India-US relations can be improved through defence cooperation, it is on issues of consumption and climate change that they can stumble. It is the latter that is portentous for job creation. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up

Narendra Modi must lock the US into a relationship that yields strategic benefits for India. Ajai Shukla describes how

Rathin Roy says: More equitable consumption patterns need to be fostered to solve the environmental problem.

Will the government incentives for mobile manufacturing speed up job creation? Subhomoy Bhattacharjee looks for answers

 

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