After Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Britain, a number of bilateral agreements were signed to strengthen the growing research and innovation partnership between the two countries.
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During Prime Minister Modi’s go to, India and Australia finalised their nuclear deal, which can make it attainable for New Delhi to supply uranium from Canberra.
However, following a change in mind by the local government, ethnic Indian associations which are working with NAMO in Singapore have been instructed to let their members know that Singaporeans are now permitted to go and listen to Modi.
For the past 11 years, both countries have rhetorically stressed their “comprehensive strategic partnership”, which was upgraded to an “enhanced partnership” after Cameron’s first visit to India as prime minister in July 2010.
The UK’s role in India has diminished over the decades.
Despite its small geographical size, Singapore is an important trade and investment partner for India, playing a key role as one of Asia’s leading global financial centers and an important hub for trade finance and capital raising for India. In fact, in his first term, India was at the top of the list of emerging powers which his government chose to court.
Following the bilateral talks, India and United Kingdom announced signing of six pacts worth over £9 billion.
In an article for the prestigious The Economist magazine, whose excerpts were tweeted by its Paris-based correspondent on Wednesday, Modi has written, “India has tremendous social strengths, including pluralism…” Even these were not reciprocated by India, exept in 2006.
Economics, of course, stands at the heart of the India-UK relationship. Cameron wants to make the United Kingdom a part of the Indian economy’s success story while Modi would like greater British investment in support of his “Make in India” initiative.
Modi’s chief aim seems to be to build “Brand India”.
He additionally pushed forward his proposal for forming an alliance of photo voltaic-wealthy nations on the upcoming Climate Summit in Paris and stated that the G-20 nations should construct help techniques targeted on nations with most progress potential.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asked young IAS officers to develop immunity against the “viral” of corruption and act as agents of change to improve the lives of common people as the country needs to seize the “golden opportunity” to attain new heights. Modi had an opportunity to clarify a few of these larger issues during his trip.
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Advocating the need for a stronger Indo-US ties, Pete Sessions, Chairman of House Rules Committee, said under Modi’s tenure there is much greater realisation of strengthening the ties between the two largest democracies of the world. Modi’s visit has succeeded in changing the course of India-UK ties considerably.
