The United States is likely to talk about closer cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, including the freedom of navigation. The BECA or Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement for Geo-spatial Cooperation could come up. But India prefers to sign the Industrial Security Agreement first. Both countries have a few problems with it.
The industrial policy will include incentives to make India a manufacturing and exports hub at a time global manufacturers, troubled by the US-China trade war, are looking beyond Asia’s biggest economy, a government official aware of the development said on condition of anonymity.
The deal — valued at more than $15 billion — has attracted initial offers from global defence majors, including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Sweden’s Saab. At least 85 per cent of production has to be in India, according to an initial document issued more than a year back. The Indian Air Force and Navy require as many as 400 single- and double-engine combat aircraft, according to the government.
Discussions are being held for the development of a chip that will include Indian navigation satellite ‘NavIC’ technology in mobile phones.
This marks the completion of the entire 750 km long trunk pipeline section one of PMUG constituting 30 per cent of the initially sanctioned project route. “GAIL’s infrastructure at Gorakhpur is in readiness to commence gas supplies to the upcoming fertiliser plant and the city gas project,” it said in a statement.
Specific allocation to pave way for the indigenous solutions through Make programs and Make 2 programs and seeing restoration of incentiviasation for the indigenous R & D and product development
Central Electricity Authority, the country is likely to cross the 50 GW installed capacity mark this month if NEEPCO manages to commission its proposed unit 1 and 2 of the Kameng project.
Giving details of the number of terrorists eliminated in different years, the minister said that 104 terrorists were killed in 2014, 97 in 2015, 140 in 2016, 210 in 2017, and 249 in 2018.
The flag weighing 15 Kilograms is made of knitted polyester fabric called ‘Deneir polyester’. The Chakra of the flag is printed by using specialised printing process. The 108 foot high monumental flag is the 27th Monumental Flag by Flag Foundation of India (FFOI) in Defence establishments across the country.
India signed an agreement with Russia last October to procure a batch of the S-400 missile defence systems at an estimated cost of Rs. 40,000 crore. India went ahead to seal the deal notwithstanding the US’s warnings against it. India believes that it meets the US waiver criteria for procuring the S-400 missile defence system from sanctions-hit Russia.
