During his week-long visit to the U.S. in October, a group of energy executives met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Houston. One of them was Seifi Ghasemi, chief executive of Air Products and Chemicals Inc., the world’s leading industrial gas company with the largest hydrogen pipeline supply and fueling station network. Air Products already has $500 million in investments in India’s industrial gas infrastructure – but what can read more

The latest visit to India by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina earlier this month (3-6 October) was an opportunity for both countries to showcase an exemplary neighbourly relationship and further strengthen bilateral cooperation. (Her last visit was in April 2017. ) The two governments expressed satisfaction that the “fraternal ties” and “excellent state of relations” represented a bond that transcended strategic partnership. read more

On questions relating to Jammu and Kashmir, China has been going back and forth for a long time. It quite deliberately becomes aggressive sometimes, backs off at other times. It moves between calling for a resolution on the basis of dialogue between India and Pakistan, or calling for a resolution on the basis of UN resolutions. However, announcing as it did in the meeting with Imran Khan yesterday that it will support Pakistan’s “core” read more

In the span of a mere decade, the Indian economy has gone from being cash-based to being heavily reliant on digital payment systems. This transition has been driven by domestic initiatives such as the Unified Payments Interface, IndiaStack, Aadhaar-Enabled Payment Systems and mobile wallets. These have brought many visible and worthwhile changes, such as greater convenience, financial inclusion, transparency read more