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India, Japan to enhance defence ties to bolster their strategic partnership

India and Japan on Thursday agreed to step up bilateral defence cooperation and engage in more military exercises, including holding the first joint fighter jet drills, as they emphasised that their special strategic ties played a crucial role in ensuring a free, open and rules-based Indo-Pacific, amidst China's aggressive behaviour in the region. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh met his Japanese counterpart Yasukazu Hamada here on the first day of his official visit to Japan and the two leaders reviewed various aspects of bilateral defence cooperation and regional affairs. During the 90-minute-long meeting, the two ministers also agreed to hold military drills aimed at boosting co-ordination between the air forces of the two nations. "Reviewed various aspects of bilateral defence cooperation and regional affairs during the bilateral meeting with Japan's Minister of Defence, Mr Yasukazu Hamada in Tokyo today. This year marks 70 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries,"

Indian exporters should not rush to hedge non-dollar exposure: Analysts

Biswas pointed to next week's U.S. consumer inflation and the Sept. 20-21 Fed meeting as events that could trigger a pullback on the dollar index

Why India remains a marginal player in global fruit and veggie market

Though a major producer, lack of infra has meant that country accounts for just 1% of market share, and relies predominantly on neighbours

Democracy holds India together as country and economy: BS Panel

For the next 25 years, the panellists picked equitable wealth distribution as the biggest issue to be addressed

India edges out China in creating new unicorns in H1CY22: Hurun report

As many as 147 unicorns worldwide saw their valuations drop in the last six months

Job creation, wealth distribution priority over inflation: FM Sitharaman

The finance minister said if India and the United States joined efforts in growing their respective economies, they might be the engines of global growth within the next two decades

Planet Scuba India ropes in CREST to manufacture dive equipment in India

The company will introduce CREST Diving to DRDO's DEBEL and will aim to make India an alternative to China as a manufacturer of dive equipment

Critical to revisit UNSC's peacekeeping approach, address challenges: India

Underlining that UN peacekeeping has become increasingly challenging in face of growing violence across conflict hotspots, India has called for reassessing the Security Council's approach towards peacekeeping and to address operational and other challenges faced by these operations. Today, UN peacekeeping is becoming increasingly challenging in the face of growing violence across conflict theaters, with a diminishing focus on the political process, India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj said while addressing the UNSC briefing on United Nations Peacekeeping Operations on Tuesday. She said that it is critical to reassess the Council's approach towards peacekeeping as well as to address the security and operational challenges faced by peace operations. India is one of the largest troop and police contributors, with more than 5,700 Indian peacekeepers presently deployed in 9 out of 12 peacekeeping missions. Underlining that India's peacekeeping credentials

India, Bangladesh sign deal on water sharing, six other treaties

Prime Minister Modi and his visiting counterpart Sheikh Hasina say bilateral cooperation between nations growing

India's urban unemployment rate improves across genders, says NSO

India's urban unemployment rate improved across genders and age groups to its best-ever level in the quarter ending June 2022

Sri Lanka has an IMF deal, now seeking debt relief from China and India

Spending cuts, tax hikes and debt write-downs are a common formula for bankrupt countries, but crisis veterans say there are some uniquely difficult elements here

Moody's retains India's sovereign credit rating at Baa3 with stable outlook

As per the release, India's sovereign ratings has been retained by Moody's at Baa3 with a stable outlook

Made in India iPhones to be 5-7% of Apple's global supply this year

As Apple gears up for the launch of iPhone 14 on September 7, its plants in India are also gearing up to manufacture more of these phones to contribute more to Apple's global supply

India's crude oil supplies to come mostly from Gulf: Hardeep Singh Puri

Indian refiners have been snapping up relatively cheap Russian oil, shunned by Western companies and countries since sanctions were imposed against Moscow.

Opec+ to cut crude oil output by 100k barrels per day from October

In a step that may increase prices in India, the group has decided to reduce output quotas for October, after a fall in global oil demand outlook.

As India makes headway in exports to the US, can it be the next China?

Sea-borne shipments of festival goods and accessories to America touched $20 million last month, almost triple the value from the year-ago period

Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan birth anniversary: Top 20 facts, quotes

Teacher's Day 2022: India is celebrating the 134th birth anniversary of former President Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Read this detailed report about his life and some quotes from him

Teachers' Day 2022: Wishes, top 20 quotes, messages and WhatsApp status

Teacher's Day 2022: India will celebrate the birth anniversary of former President Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan today. Read this report to know some amazing quotes, statuses and WhatsApp messages

Charge of the sodium-ion brigade: How India can power e-mobility industry

India could well emerge as a global hub for manufacturing sodium-ion batteries, which is seen as an alternative or complementary technology to the more expensive lithium ion-powered batteries.

India vs Pakistan, Super 4: Match preview, predicted 11, pitch and weather

India vs Pakistan, Super 4: India will play against Pakistan in the second match of Super 4 at Asia cup 2022. Read this report to get an idea of the match, playing 11, pitch report and weather