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Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday said the first trip of her new Commission will be to India as she wants to upgrade the strategic partnership with «the largest country and democracy» of the world.

Donald Trump's unpredictability, many foreign policy experts anticipate a «strong momentum» in India-US ties under his second administration while others have cautioned that there will be «some challenges» going forward. Trump on Monday took oath as the 47th President of the United States and announced a raft of executive decisions while saying that the «golden age» of America has just begun.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Among the main thrusts of India’s G20 presidency was the globalization of our approach to Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI). By the time our presidency ended, at least a dozen countries had signed MoUs with the Indian government to assist with assessing what DPI they could deploy.

Deloitte India on Tuesday projected India's GDP to grow at 6.5-6.8 per cent in the current fiscal and said India will have to adapt to the evolving global landscape and harness its domestic strengths to drive sustainable growth. In its Economic Outlook report, Deloitte India also said the country needs to decouple from global uncertainties and harness its domestic potential.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The world came to a standstill five years ago. The pandemic that began in China has since receded.

Globalization and disappearing trade boundaries are things of the past, with countries turning inwards, while wars are taking on an economic avatar with trade barriers and tariffs.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Citizens of India residing abroad are classified as non-residents (NR) under the Income Tax Act, 1961 (the Act) based on their physical stay in India. Lately, there has been a surge in tax compliance among non-resident Indians, including filing of tax returns.

Donald Trump has officially returned as the President of the United States, and his first day in office was packed with a “historic” flurry of big decisions including ones with potential to change the course of technology as we know it.

«I do not think that if 2018-19 was the playbook, no country sat back and simply said the ones on which the tariffs were imposed and did nothing. Of course, there will be retaliation,» says Jahangir Aziz, JPMorgan. So, last four years and the coming four years would be different. We all know that. What we need to understand, how different? Jahangir Aziz: You are going to see changes in tariff policy, changes in immigration policy, US tax policy, and deregulation. Now, in our view, the immigration and tariffs would come earlier and the ones on regulation and on tax policy come later, not because there is any such magic sequencing, it is simply because the first two are easier to do through executive orders and the latter two are more difficult to do because it requires legislative changes, that is the way we have been thinking .

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Donald Trump started his new presidential term with an unexpected show of restraint. Just a couple of months ago, Mr Trump had warned that he would announce hefty new levies on his first day back in the White House.

Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday temporarily suspending all U.S. foreign assistance programs for 90 days pending reviews to determine whether they are aligned with his policy goals.

Donald Trump said Monday he may impose 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico as early as February 1, while promising punitive measures on other countries as part of new US trade policy.

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After Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president, he outlined some of the main priorities he planned to enact through executive orders, ranging from deportations and border controls to renaming the Gulf of Mexico.

Canadian leaders expressed relief that sweeping tariffs were not applied to Canadian products on the first day of Donald Trump’s presidency and that he did not mention America’s major trading partner during his inaugural speech

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