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Parliament Budget Session: Congress' Manish Tewari moves adjournment motio
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
Congress MP Manish Tewari on Thursday moved an adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha, urging the House to debate on a matter of "grave public importance" related to the India-US trade deal and energy understanding.
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'Provides no details': Jairam Ramesh reacts to statement of Piyush Goyal o
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
The Congress leader remarked that Piyush Goyal's "high-sounding claims go completely contrary" to what the US President, the US Secretary of Agriculture, and the US Trade Representative have put out in their names on social media.
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Ensuring energy security of 1.4 billion Indians Govt's supreme priority: P
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
During his statement on the India-US trade deal in the Rajya Sabha, Goyal noted that diversifying energy sources in response to market conditions is central to the national strategy.
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India-US trade deal: "Trying to spin fake narrative," BJP's CR Kesavan sla
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
BJP National Spokesperson CR Kesavan on Wednesday slammed Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and accused him of weaving a "fake narrative" about the India-US trade deal announced by US President Donald Trump earlier in the week, following a telephonic conversation with Pri
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"Successful in safeguarding interests of agriculture and dairy sectors": P
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday assured Members of Parliament that India had successfully safeguarded the interests of the agriculture and dairy sectors in the trade deal with the United States.
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"US has nearly bought India...": Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut criticise
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Thursday criticised the India-US trade agreement, which reduced the previously imposed tariff of 50 per cent to 18 per cent, saying that with this trade deal, the United States has almost bought India.
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"Good gesture between India-US": BJD leader Debi Prasad Mishra lauds trade
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
"It is a good gesture between India and the US. The Commerce Ministry had been working to get the tariff reduced. This will ease out any apprehensions," he told ANI.
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India-US trade deal is "major step forward", but ties will take time to ge
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The Director of the Centre for New American Security (CNAS), Lisa Curtis, on Tuesday (local time) described the recently announced India-US trade deal, in which Washington reduced the tariff on Indian goods to 18 per cent, as a "major step forward" for bilateral ties, while also cautionin
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USIBC President lauds India-US trade deal, says agreement sends "very posi
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The President of the US-India Business Council (USIBC) at the US Chamber of Commerce, Atul Keshap, has welcomed the recently announced India-US trade deal, in which Washington reduced the tariff on Indian goods to 18 per cent, saying that the agreement sends a "very positive psychological
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"Great occasion for both countries; this is just beginning": Former diplom
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Former Indian diplomats on Tuesday welcomed the India-US trade agreement, calling it a positive and evolving step that would boost bilateral trade, business confidence and people-to-people benefits between the two countries.
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"Will make industries more globally competitive": State industry bodies on
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
Rajesh B. Lund, President of the Chamber of Commerce, Coimbatore, said the industry has "warmly welcomed" the US tariff reductions announced under the new trade initiative. "This is a landmark achievement, and we wholeheartedly appreciate the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose
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US-India trade deal removes 'competitive disadvantage': Former Envoy Arun
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"Till the Prime Minister's visit to China for the SCO Summit, comments from people around President Trump were very critical. But after the optics of the PM's meetings with President Putin and President Xi, the tone changed. President Trump began posting that India and PM Modi are great frie
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