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Narendra Modi is the Prime Minister of India, leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, in office since 2014.
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India's exports to China rose 40% from April to August 2026, yet the factories behind them still depend on Chinese components, equipment and raw materials. A company that moves assembly to India keeps buying much of its parts supply from China.
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India's 70% toy tariff and quality rules cut toy imports from nearly $300mn in 2020 to $100mn this year. Over the same years its trade deficit with China grew from $44bn to $112bn, and that dependence sits in the components and machinery Indian factories use.
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FlyDubai's Israel-bound jet fell 16,000 feet in about a minute after one pilot stabbed the other, Benjamin Netanyahu said. If his account holds, the defence that failed was the airline's vetting of its own pilots.
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Modi said India has moved past policy and plant construction into commercial chip production. The fresh investment announced at Semicon India 2026 came from two equipment suppliers, Applied Materials and Lam Research.
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Xi meets Trump on Wednesday holding a surplus built outside the American market. Two Pew readings that bear on enforcement, Canadian trust and German belief that Washington weighs other countries' interests, have each fallen by more than half.
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The bloc's leaders adopted a Middle East paragraph that assigns responsibility to no country, and both Iran and the UAE signed it four months after their foreign ministers could not agree on any text at all.
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India reported 7.8 per cent real growth for the June quarter on a base year newly moved to 2022-23. The former finance secretary who calls the nominal rate 2.6 per cent gets there by comparing levels across two different bases.
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Tariffs, secondary-sanction threats and White House warmth toward Pakistan and China have not moved New Delhi. What holds the line is a political choice with an expiry clause.
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India's paper leak cost a minister his job, Mexico's top university voided about 58,000 entrance results, and Portugal's marking digitisation failed. The failures rhyme.
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