The State Visit of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, to India from 24th to 26th January as the Chief Guest of India's 68th Republic Day celebrations marked a momentous occasion in relations between India and the UAE, said a Joint Statement at the conclusion of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed's visit to India.
Inspite of being next door neighbor Indo Sri Lanka relation has seen many ups and down. It is in our interest to live with peace and resolve specially Tamil Ethenic issue
Indo US relation is vital foreign policy for both. President Obama and PM Modi have elevated this relation to higher level for further exploitation in future.
The State Visit of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, to India from 24th to 26th January as the Chief Guest of India's 68th Republic Day celebrations marked a momentous occasion in relations between India and the UAE, said a Joint Statement at the conclusion of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed's visit to India.
Inspite of being next door neighbor Indo Sri Lanka relation has seen many ups and down. It is in our interest to live with peace and resolve specially Tamil Ethenic issue
Indo US relation is vital foreign policy for both. President Obama and PM Modi have elevated this relation to higher level for further exploitation in future.
USINPAC Hosts Dr. Udit Raj for Meeting with US CongressmenSanjay Puri USINPAC
The US India Political Action Committee (USINPAC) regularly hosts meetings between business and political leaders from the United States and India, striving to drive engagement and collaboration between the countries for their mutual advancement.
The visit of US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken to New Delhi on July 27-28, 2021, from atmospherics to substance, confirmed the forward momentum of the India-US comprehensive and global partnership. It signalled that bilateral relations are strong, diversified, consequential and mutually reinforcing, as both countries and the world continue to face the unprecedented challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic.
CPPR in collaboration with the U.S. Consulate General in Chennai, organised a two-day international conference on ‘Indo-U.S. Relations: Change, Continuity and Transformation’ in Kochi on April 19-20, 2022, with a view to advancing the conversations in Indo-U.S. foreign policy cooperation. This is a publication of five research articles from the conference proceedings in five chapters.
It throws lights on - Emergence of India as a global power, Indo-Pacific strategic arc, continued rise of China as a global power, increasing economic and strategic weight of East Asia, the Arc of Freedom and Prosperity, Pivot to Asia, the Heart of Maritime Asia and Pacific, India’s tough neighborhood, India’s relations with Bhutan, Maldives and Nepal,When the two bull fight; the ultimate victim will be the nearby small calf. India’s destiny and its South Asian neighbors.
As of now, India-Israel relations seem to be on track, overcoming the last hiccup when India made Israel unhappy by voting against the recognition of Jerusalem as its capital at the United Nations last month.
The way ahead seems smooth, a road on which both India and Israel can ride far together. At the India-Israel Business Summit in New Delhi, Modi extolled India-Israel ties in glowing terms.
One element of the extensive partnership that the UPA administration wants to establish with the United States is the agreement on civilian nuclear cooperation. The UPA administration signed a ten year defense framework agreement with the United States prior to the joint declaration of July 2005. It is obvious that the Americans would not have agreed to the nuclear cooperation without the defense pact. This seems to be an element of a trade off. Therefore the present study has been carried out to study the india’s interest in the foreign policy with deal, to study united states’ interests with the deal and to discuss the implications of the deal on south asian strategic environment. The study concludes that India has got the status of de jure nuclear power in world area. India will have to go under non proliferation objectives of United States and will have to accept some compromises on her nuclear program. Some foundations of non proliferation circle will create critical conditions for Indias independent sovereignty over her nuclear program and non proliferation standards and U.S. role in Asian matters. Mr. Tapan Kumar Mahata "Indo US Nuclear Deal: An Overview" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-7 | Issue-2 , April 2023, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com.com/papers/ijtsrd55054.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com.com/humanities-and-the-arts/political-science/55054/indo-us-nuclear-deal-an-overview/mr-tapan-kumar-mahata
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Hina Rabbani Khar was born on 19 November 1977 in the landowner family of Kot Addu. Her father is feudal lord of kot Addu, Ghulam Noor Rabbani Khar and she is the niece of Ghulam Mustafa Khar. She is married to Feroze Gulzar and has two daughters, Annaya and Dina.
She graduated in Economics from LUMS in 1999 and completed her M Sc (Hon) in Business Management from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 20
We all have good and bad thoughts from time to time and situation to situation. We are bombarded daily with spiraling thoughts(both negative and positive) creating all-consuming feel , making us difficult to manage with associated suffering. Good thoughts are like our Mob Signal (Positive thought) amidst noise(negative thought) in the atmosphere. Negative thoughts like noise outweigh positive thoughts. These thoughts often create unwanted confusion, trouble, stress and frustration in our mind as well as chaos in our physical world. Negative thoughts are also known as “distorted thinking”.
Leaders are often faced with ethical conundrums(a confusing and difficult problem or question). So how can they determine when they’re inching toward dangerous territory? There are three main psychological dynamics that lead to crossing moral lines.
There’s omnipotence: when someone feels so aggrandized and entitled that they believe the rules of decent behavior don’t apply to them.
Consider cultural numbness: when others play along and gradually begin to accept and embody deviant norms.
Finally, when people don’t speak up because they are thinking of more immediate rewards, we see justified neglect.
USINPAC Hosts Dr. Udit Raj for Meeting with US CongressmenSanjay Puri USINPAC
The US India Political Action Committee (USINPAC) regularly hosts meetings between business and political leaders from the United States and India, striving to drive engagement and collaboration between the countries for their mutual advancement.
The visit of US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken to New Delhi on July 27-28, 2021, from atmospherics to substance, confirmed the forward momentum of the India-US comprehensive and global partnership. It signalled that bilateral relations are strong, diversified, consequential and mutually reinforcing, as both countries and the world continue to face the unprecedented challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic.
CPPR in collaboration with the U.S. Consulate General in Chennai, organised a two-day international conference on ‘Indo-U.S. Relations: Change, Continuity and Transformation’ in Kochi on April 19-20, 2022, with a view to advancing the conversations in Indo-U.S. foreign policy cooperation. This is a publication of five research articles from the conference proceedings in five chapters.
It throws lights on - Emergence of India as a global power, Indo-Pacific strategic arc, continued rise of China as a global power, increasing economic and strategic weight of East Asia, the Arc of Freedom and Prosperity, Pivot to Asia, the Heart of Maritime Asia and Pacific, India’s tough neighborhood, India’s relations with Bhutan, Maldives and Nepal,When the two bull fight; the ultimate victim will be the nearby small calf. India’s destiny and its South Asian neighbors.
As of now, India-Israel relations seem to be on track, overcoming the last hiccup when India made Israel unhappy by voting against the recognition of Jerusalem as its capital at the United Nations last month.
The way ahead seems smooth, a road on which both India and Israel can ride far together. At the India-Israel Business Summit in New Delhi, Modi extolled India-Israel ties in glowing terms.
One element of the extensive partnership that the UPA administration wants to establish with the United States is the agreement on civilian nuclear cooperation. The UPA administration signed a ten year defense framework agreement with the United States prior to the joint declaration of July 2005. It is obvious that the Americans would not have agreed to the nuclear cooperation without the defense pact. This seems to be an element of a trade off. Therefore the present study has been carried out to study the india’s interest in the foreign policy with deal, to study united states’ interests with the deal and to discuss the implications of the deal on south asian strategic environment. The study concludes that India has got the status of de jure nuclear power in world area. India will have to go under non proliferation objectives of United States and will have to accept some compromises on her nuclear program. Some foundations of non proliferation circle will create critical conditions for Indias independent sovereignty over her nuclear program and non proliferation standards and U.S. role in Asian matters. Mr. Tapan Kumar Mahata "Indo US Nuclear Deal: An Overview" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-7 | Issue-2 , April 2023, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com.com/papers/ijtsrd55054.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com.com/humanities-and-the-arts/political-science/55054/indo-us-nuclear-deal-an-overview/mr-tapan-kumar-mahata
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Hina Rabbani Khar was born on 19 November 1977 in the landowner family of Kot Addu. Her father is feudal lord of kot Addu, Ghulam Noor Rabbani Khar and she is the niece of Ghulam Mustafa Khar. She is married to Feroze Gulzar and has two daughters, Annaya and Dina.
She graduated in Economics from LUMS in 1999 and completed her M Sc (Hon) in Business Management from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 20
We all have good and bad thoughts from time to time and situation to situation. We are bombarded daily with spiraling thoughts(both negative and positive) creating all-consuming feel , making us difficult to manage with associated suffering. Good thoughts are like our Mob Signal (Positive thought) amidst noise(negative thought) in the atmosphere. Negative thoughts like noise outweigh positive thoughts. These thoughts often create unwanted confusion, trouble, stress and frustration in our mind as well as chaos in our physical world. Negative thoughts are also known as “distorted thinking”.
Leaders are often faced with ethical conundrums(a confusing and difficult problem or question). So how can they determine when they’re inching toward dangerous territory? There are three main psychological dynamics that lead to crossing moral lines.
There’s omnipotence: when someone feels so aggrandized and entitled that they believe the rules of decent behavior don’t apply to them.
Consider cultural numbness: when others play along and gradually begin to accept and embody deviant norms.
Finally, when people don’t speak up because they are thinking of more immediate rewards, we see justified neglect.
Generally most people mean well, but simply execute their job poorly sometimes and sometimes, there are BAD bosses. We must learn “to Work "on Bad Boss
According to dictionary.com, “to work” something or someone is to put them into effective operation, to operate that thing or person for productive purposes.
Put your Bad Boss into effective operation to get whatever you want in your job or career by learning your boss’s secret desire and secret fear
Two biggest issues of Bad Boss are:
They can negatively impact our work performance.
They can make life miserable
We often hear “being difficult.” about Bad Boss. It’s hard to know exactly where the difficulty lie. All we know is it is difficult to work successfully with this person.
An incompetent person is someone who is
Functionally inadequate or
Insufficient in Knowledge, Skills, Judgment, or Strength
Mindset is a mental attitude that determines how we interpret and respond to situations.
Dweck has found that it is your mindset that plays a significant role in determining achievement and success.
A mindset refers to whether you believe qualities such as intelligence and talent are fixed or changeable traits.
People with a fixed mindset believe that these qualities are inborn, fixed, and unchangeable.
Those with a growth mindset, on the other hand, believe that these abilities can be developed and strengthened by way of commitment and hard work.
Story of Katalin Karikó, a researcher who won the Nobel prize for medicine for her work on modifying the RNA molecule to avoid triggering a harmful immune response is a classical example of mindset.
Yet, her life was full of rejection and doubt.
Her achievement had much to do with her mindset.
A theory is a based upon a hypothesis and backed by evidence.
A theory presents a concept or idea that is testable.
In science, a theory is not merely a guess.
A theory is a fact-based framework for describing a phenomenon.
In psychology, theories are used to provide a model for understanding human thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.
Hence study of Psychology theory is essential for SSB and all types of Interviewas it helps us to understand our own developmental psychology.k
Personality theorists should study normal individuals
All behavior is interactive
The person must be studied in terms of interactions with their environment
The brain is the locus of personality
There is a biological basis to personality
Definition of Personality
1- Personality is an abstraction formulated by a theorist.
2- It refers to series of events that ideally span over life time from childhood to adulthood
3-It reflects novel, unique, recurrent and enduring patterns of behaviours – his education and training .
4- Personality is located in brain- imagination, perception
5.Personality comprises the person’s central organizing and governing processes, whose function is to
Resolve conflicts,
Satisfy needs, and
Plan for future goals.
” Emotions are complex psychological states involving three distinct components: a subjective experience, a physiological response, and a behavioral or expressive response”
"Discovering Psychology," by Don Hockenbury and Sandra E. Hockenbury
In 1972, psychologist Paul Ekman suggested that there are six basic emotions that are universal throughout human cultures: fear, disgust, anger, surprise, joy, and sadness.
In the 1980s, Robert Plutchik introduced another emotion classification system known as the wheel of emotions. This model demonstrated how different emotions can be combined or mixed together, much like the way an artist mixes primary colors to create other colors.
Plutchik proposed eight primary emotional dimensions: joy vs. sadness, anger vs. fear, trust vs. disgust, and surprise vs. anticipation.
These emotions can then be combined to create others, such as happiness + anticipation = excitement.
In 1999, Ekman expanded his list to include a number of other basic emotions, including embarrassment, excitement, contempt, shame, pride, satisfaction, and amusement
Anger is an intense emotion you feel when
Something has gone wrong or
Someone has wronged you.
It is typically characterized by feelings of
Stress,
Frustration, and
Irritation.
Anger is a perfectly normal response to frustrating or difficult situations.
Anger only becomes a problem when
It’s excessively displayed and
Begins to affect your daily functioning and the way you relate with people.
Anger can range in intensity, from a slight annoyance to rage.
It can sometimes be excessive or irrational.
In these cases, it can be hard to keep the emotion in check and could cause you to behave in ways you wouldn’t otherwise behave.
Cognitive distortions are
Negative or irrational patterns of thinking.
Simply ways that Impostor Syndrome convinces us to believe things that aren’t really true.
Inaccurate thought patterns that
Reinforce our negative self perception and
Keep us feeling bad about ourselves
These negative thought patterns can play a role in
Diminishing our motivation,
Lowering our self-esteem
Contributing to problems like
Anxiety,
Depression, and
Substance use.
Trauma Bonding is the attachment an abused person feels for their abuser, specifically in a relationship with a cyclical pattern of abuse.
Is created due to a cycle of abuse and positive reinforcement
After each circumstance of abuse, the abuser professes love, regret, and trying to make the relationship feel safe and needed for the abused person.
Hence Abused
Finds leaving an abusive situation confusing and overwhelming
Involves positive and/or loving feelings for an abuser
Also feel attached to and dependent on their abuser.
Emotional abuse involves controlling another person by using emotions to Criticize , Embarrass ,Shame ,Blame or
Manipulate .
To be abusive there must be a consistent pattern of abusive words and bullying behaviours that Wear down a person’s Self-esteem and Undermine Their mental health.
Most common in married relationships,
Mental or emotional abuse can occur in any relationship—including among
Friends
Family members and
Co-workers
Attachment-related patterns that differ between individuals are commonly called "attachment styles."
There seems to be an association between a person’s attachment characteristics early in life and in adulthood, but the correlations are far from perfect.
Many adults feel secure in their relationships and comfortable depending on others (echoing “secure” attachment in children).
Others tend to feel anxious about their connection with close others—or prefer to avoid getting close to them in the first place (echoing “insecure” attachment in children).
Borderline personality disorder, characterized by a longing for intimacy and a hypersensitivity to rejection, have shown a high prevalence and severity of insecure attachment.
Attachment styles in adulthood (similar to attachment patterns in children):
Secure
Anxious-preoccupied (high anxiety, low avoidance)
Dismissing-avoidant (low anxiety, high avoidance)
Fearful-avoidant (high anxiety, high avoidance)
Conduct disorder is an ongoing pattern of behaviour marked by emotional and behavioural problems.
Ways in which Children with conduct disorder behave are
Angry,
Aggressive,
Argumentative, and
Disruptive ways.
It is a diagnosable mental health condition that is characterized by patterns of violating
Societal norms and
Rights of others
It's estimated that around 3% of school-aged children have conduct disorder and require professional treatment .
It is more common in boys than in girls.
Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is a psychiatric disorder that typically emerges in childhood, between ages 6 and 8, and can last throughout adulthood.
ODD is more than just normal childhood tantrums
Frequency and severity of ODD causes difficulty at home and at school.
Children with ODD also struggle with learning problems related to their behavior.
Two types of oppositional defiant disorder:
Childhood-onset ODD:
Present from an early age
Requires early intervention and treatment to prevent it from progressing into a more serious conduct disorder
Adolescent-onset ODD:
Begins suddenly in the middle- and high-school years, causing conflict at home and in school
There have been at least 13 different types of intelligence that have been identified so far.
These different ways of being smart can help people perform in different areas from their personal life, business, to sports and relationships.
Attachment is an emotional bond with another person. John Bowlby described attachment as a "lasting psychological connectedness between human beings.“
Earliest bonds formed by children (with caregivers) have a tremendous impact that continues throughout life and Attachment so developed
Serves to keep the infant close to the mother, thus improving the child's chances of survival.
Are innate drive Children are born with and is a product of evolutionary processes
Emerges and are regulated through the process of natural selection,
Are characterized by clear behavioural and motivation patterns.
Nurturance and responsiveness were the primary determinants of attachment.
Children who maintained proximity to an attachment figure were more likely to
Receive comfort and protection, and
More likely to survive to adulthood.
e-RUPI is a person and purpose-specific cashless e-voucher designed to guarantee
that the stored money value reaches its intended beneficiary and can only be used for
the specific benefit or purpose for which it was intended. The idea is to create a minimal
logistics, leak-proof delivery mechanism for a wide range of government Direct Benefit
Transfer (DBT) programs across the country. The digital e-voucher platform can also
be used by organizations who wish to support welfare services through e-RUPI instead
of cash
The term ‘Moonlighting’ became popular in America when people started working a second job in addition to their regular 9-to-5 jobs. Since the rise of the work-from-home concept during the pandemic, employees got free time after work hours. While some took up their hobby in their free time, others started searching for part-time jobs. Especially in the IT industry, employees took up two jobs simultaneously and took advantage of the remote working model. This concept of working for two companies/organisations is referred to as moonlighting.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
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It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
1. Brief on India-U.S. Relations
Overview:
India-U.S. bilateral relations have developed into a "global strategic partnership", based on
shared democratic values and increasing convergence of interests on bilateral, regional and
global issues. The emphasis placed by the Government in India on development and good
governance has created opportunity to reinvigorate bilateral ties and enhance cooperation under
the motto --- “ChaleinSaathSaath: Forward Together We Go”, and "SanjhaPrayas, Sab ka Vikas"
(Shared Effort, Progress for All) adopted during the first two summits of Prime Minister Modi
and President Obama in September 2014 and January 2015 respectively. The summit level joint
statement issued in June 2016 called the India-U.S. relationship an “Enduring Global Partners in
the 21st Century”.
Regular exchange of high-level political visits has provided sustained momentum to bilateral
cooperation, while the wide-ranging and ever-expanding dialogue architecture has established a
long-term framework for India-U.S. engagement. Today, the India-U.S. bilateral cooperation is
broad-based and multi-sectoral, covering trade and investment, defence and security, education,
science and technology, cyber security, high-technology, civil nuclear energy, space technology
and applications, clean energy, environment, agriculture and health. Vibrant people-to-people
interaction and support across the political spectrum in both countries nurture our bilateral
relationship.
Political Relations:
The frequency of high-level visits and exchanges between India and the U.S. has gone up
significantly of late. Prime Minister Modi visited the U.S. on 26-30 September 2014; he held
meetings with President Obama, members of the U.S. Congress and political leaders, including
from various States and cities in the U.S., and interacted with members of President Obama's
Cabinet. He also reached out to the captains of the U.S. commerce and industry, the American
civil society and think tanks, and the Indian-American community. A Vision Statement and a
Joint Statement were issued during the visit.
The visit was followed by President Obama's visit to India on 25-27 January 2015 as the Chief
Guest at India's Republic Day. During the visit, the two sides issued a Delhi Declaration of
Friendship and adopted a Joint Strategic Vision for Asia-Pacific and the Indian Ocean Region.
Both sides elevated the Strategic Dialogue between their Foreign Ministers to Strategic and
Commercial Dialogue of Foreign and Commerce Ministers.
Prime Minister Modi again visited the U.S. on 23-28 September 2015, during which he held a
bilateral meeting with President Obama, interacted with leaders of business, media, academia,
the provincial leaders and the Indian community, including during his travel to the Silicon
Valley. In 2016, Prime Minister visited the U.S. for the multilateral Nuclear Security Summit
hosted by President Obama in Washington D.C. on 31 March-1 April. This was soon followed
2. by an official working visit by Prime Minister on 6-8 June, during which he held bilateral
discussions with President Obama, and also addressed a Joint Session of the U.S. Congress.
Prime Minister Modi was the sixth Indian Prime Minister to address the U.S. Congress.
There is frequent interaction between the leadership of the two countries, including telephone
calls and meetings on the sidelines of international summits. President Trump and Prime
Minister Modi have spoken thrice over phone since the former’s election in November 2016. A
hotline has been established between the Prime Minister's Office and the U.S. White House.
India-U.S. Dialogue Architecture:
There are more than 50 bilateral dialogue mechanisms between the two governments. The first
two meetings of the Strategic and Commercial Dialogue at the level of EAM and MoS
(Commerce & Industry) were held in Washington DC in September 2015 and New Delhi in
August 2016. This apex-level dialogue has added a commercial component to the five traditional
pillars of bilateral relations on which the erstwhile Strategic Dialogue of Foreign Ministers had
focussed, namely: Strategic Cooperation; Energy and Climate Change, Education and
Development; Economy, Trade and Agriculture; Science and Technology; and Health and
Innovation. The second meeting of the Strategic and Commercial Dialogue took place on 30
August 2016 in New Delhi. In addition, there are Ministerial-level dialogues involving home
(Homeland Security Dialogue), finance (Financial and Economic Partnership), commerce (Trade
Policy Forum), HRD (Higher Education Dialogue), Science & Technology (Joint Commission
Meeting on S&T) and energy (Energy Dialogue).
Major Exchanges in 2015, 2016 and 2017:
There were a number of high-level delegations in both directions in 2015. In January, Secretary
of State John Kerry led the U.S. delegation to the Vibrant Gujarat Summit in Ahmedabad. In
February, U.S. Secretary of Treasury Jacob Lew visited India for the fifth meeting of the
Economic and Financial Partnership Initiative with our Finance Minister. U.S. Secretary of
Transportation Anthony Foxx visited India in April for meeting with his counterpart Ministers in
India. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter paid a bilateral visit to India in June. From the Indian
side, Finance Minister and MOS (IC) for Environment, Forests & Climate Change visited
Washington DC in April, the former for the Spring meeting of the IMF/World Bank and the
latter for the Major Economies’ Forum meeting. Finance Minister again visited the U.S. in June
to promote Investment into India. External Affairs Minister and MOS (IC) for Commerce &
Industry co-chaired the first meeting of the Strategic and Commercial Dialogue with their U.S.
counterparts in Washington DC in September. MOS (IC) for Power held the Energy Dialogue
with his U.S. counterpart in September in Washington DC. MOS (IC) for Power, Coal and New
& Renewable Energy also attended the Climate and Clean Energy Investment Forum 2015
hosted by Secretary of State Kerry in Washington DC in October. MOS (IC) for Commerce &
Industry held the 9th meeting of the Trade Policy Forum with the U.S. Trade Representative in
Washington DC in October. Raksha Mantri visited the U.S. at the invitation of his U.S.
counterpart in December 2015. Chief Minister of Haryana led a delegation of the State
government in August. There have been numerous visits of parliamentarians and senior officials
in both directions.
3. Major Ministerial visits in 2016 included Railway Minister Shri Suresh Prabhu in January,
Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley in April, Minister for Urban Development Shri Venkaiah
Naidu, Minister of Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Shri Nitin Gadkari, and Minister of
State (IC) for Petroleum and Natural Gas Shri Dharmendra Pradhan in July, Raksha Mantri Shri
Manohar Parrikar in August, Minister for S&T and Earth Sciences Dr. Harsh Vardhan in
September and Finance MinisterShri Arun Jaitley in October (from India to the U.S.) and U.S.
Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter twice ---in April and December, Secretary of State John
Kerry and Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker in August and U.S. Trade Representative Mike
Froman in October (from the U.S. to India). In addition, Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Chief
Minister of Madhya Pradesh (August), Shri. Raghubar Das, Chief Minister of Jharkhand
(September), Shri Chandra Sekhar Rao, Chief Minister of Telangana(September) and Shri
Raman Singh, Honorable Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh (November/December) visited the U.S.
promote investment in their states.
In 2017, the high-level exchanges have continued. Minister of State(I/C) Petroleum & Natural
Gas Shri Dharmendra Pradhan visited Houston and Washington DC in Marchand met US Energy
Secretary Mr. Rick Perry. Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley visited the U.S. in April for the
IMF-WB meeting and met with his U.S. counterpart. National Security Adviser and Foreign
Secretary have visited the U.S. in March and interacted with a wide cross-section of top U.S.
policymakers. From the U.S. side, NSA H.R. McMaster visited India in April.
Strategic Consultations:
There have been regular contacts at political and official levels on bilateral, regional and global
issues. Foreign Office Consultations, at the level of Foreign Secretary of India and U.S.
Undersecretary for Political Affairs, are an important part of the dialogue structure. The last
round of Foreign Office Consultations was held in New Delhi in April 2015. A new High-level
Consultation between Foreign Secretary of India and the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State was
launched in September 2015, and has met twice since then, in December 2015 in New Delhi and
July 2016 in Washington D.C.. A Policy Planning Dialogue has also been started between the
two sides in September 2015.
There have been regular contacts at political and official levels on bilateral, regional and global
issues. Foreign Office Consultations, at the level of Foreign Secretary of India and U.S.
Undersecretary for Political Affairs, are an important part of the dialogue structure. The last
round of Foreign Office Consultations was held in New Delhi in April 2015. A new High-level
Consultation between Foreign Secretary of India and the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State was
launched in September 2015, and has met twice since then, in December 2015 in New Delhi and
July 2016 in Washington D.C.. A Policy Planning Dialogue has also been started between the
two sides in September 2015.
Civil Nuclear Cooperation:
The bilateral civil nuclear cooperation agreement was finalized in July 2007 and signed in
October 2008. During Prime Minister Modi's visit to the U.S. in September 2014, the two sides
set up a Contact Group for advancing the full and timely implementation of the India-U.S. Civil
4. Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, and to resolve pending issues. Culminating a decade of
partnership on civil nuclear issues, the two sides have started the preparatory work on site in
India for six AP 1000 reactors to be built by Westinghouse. Once completed, the project would
be among the largest of its kind. The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd, and Westinghouse
are in talks toward finalizing the contractual arrangements, and addressing related issues.
Defence Cooperation:
Defence relationship has emerged as a major pillar of India-U.S. strategic partnership with the
signing of ‘New Framework for India-U.S. Defense Relations’ in 2005 and the resulting
intensification in defence trade, joint exercises, personnel exchanges, collaboration and
cooperation in maritime security and counter-piracy, and exchanges between each of the three
services. The Defence Framework Agreement was updated and renewed for another 10 years in
June 2015.
The two countries now conduct more bilateral exercises with each other than they do with any
other country. India participated in Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise in July-August 2016
for the second time with an Indian Naval Frigate. Bilateral dialogue mechanisms in the field of
defence include Defence Policy Group (DPG), Defence Joint Working Group (DJWG), Defence
Procurement and Production Group (DPPG), Senior Technology Security Group (STSG), Joint
Technical Group (JTG), Military Cooperation Group (MCG), and Service-to-Service Executive
Steering Groups (ESGs).The agreements signed during the past one year include, Logistics
Exchange Memorandum of Association (LEMOA) signed in August 2016, Fuel Exchange
Agreementsigned in November 2015,Technical Agreement (TA) on information sharing on
White (merchant) Shipping signed in May 2016 and the Information Exchange Annexe (IEA) on
Aircraft Carrier Technologies signed in June 2016.
Aggregate worth of defence acquisition from U.S. Defence has crossed over US$ 13 billion.
India and the United States have launched a Defence Technology and Trade Initiative (DTTI)
aimed at simplifying technology transfer policies and exploring possibilities of co-development
and co-production to invest the defence relationship with strategic value. The DTTI Working
Group and its Task Force will expeditiously evaluate and decide on unique projects and
technologies which would have a transformative impact on bilateral defence relations and
enhance India's defence industry and military capabilities. During President Obama's visit in
January 2015, the two sides agreed to start cooperation on 4 DTTI pathfinder projects and 2
pathfinder initiatives, which are currently at various stages of execution. During RM's visit in
December 2015, the two sides also identified opportunities for bilateral cooperation in
production and design of jet engine components. During Secretary Carter's visit in April 2014,
two more G-2-G DTTI projects were added to the list. The DTTI meeting in Delhi in July 2016
decided to broaden its agenda by setting up five new Joint Working Groups on: Naval Systems;
Air Systems, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance; Chemical and Biological
Protection; and Other Systems.
During the visit of Prime Minister to the U.S. in June 2016, the U.S. recognised India as a
"Major Defence Partner", which commits the U.S. to facilitate technology sharing with India to a
5. level commensurate with that of its closest allies and partners, and industry collaboration for
defence co-production and co-development.
Counter-terrorism and internal security:
Cooperation in counter-terrorism has seen considerable progress with intelligence sharing,
information exchange, operational cooperation, counter-terrorism technology and equipment.
India-U.S. Counter-Terrorism Cooperation Initiative was signed in 2010 to expand collaboration
on counter-terrorism, information sharing and capacity building. A Homeland Security Dialogue
was announced during President Obama's visit to India in November 2010 to further deepen
operational cooperation, counter-terrorism technology transfers and capacity building. Two
rounds of this Dialogue have been held, in May 2011 and May 2013, with six Sub-Groups
steering cooperation in specific areas. In December 2013, India-U.S Police Chief Conference on
homeland security was organized in New Delhi. Police Commissioners from India's top four
metropolis paid a study visit to the U.S. to learn the practices of megacities policing in the U.S.
in November 2015. The two sides have agreed on a joint work plan to counter the threat of
Improvised Explosives Device (IED). In order to further enhance the counter terrorism
cooperation between India and the U.S., an arrangement was concluded in June 2016 to facilitate
exchange of terrorist screening information through the designated contact points. India-U.S.
Joint Working Group on Counter-Terrorism held its 14th meeting in July 2016 in Washington
DC.
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Trade and Economic:
India-US bilateral trade in goods and services increased from $104 billion in 2014 to $114
billion in 2016. Two-way merchandise trade stood at $66.7 billion. Of this, India’s exports of
goods to the US were valued at $46 billion and India’s imports of goods from US were valued at
$21.7 billion. India-US trade in services stood at $47.2 billion. Of this, India’s exports of
services to the US were valued at $26.8 billion and India’s imports of services from US were
valued at $20.3 billion. Both countries have made a commitment to facilitate actions necessary
for increasing the bilateral trade to $500 billion. The bilateral merchandise trade is showing an
encouraging growth trajectory in 2017. During the first three months, bilateral merchandise trade
stood at $17.2 billion as compared to $16.2 billion during the corresponding period in 2016. Of
this, India’s exports to the US were $11.4 billion and India’s imports from the US were $5.8
billion. The trade deficit during Jan-Mar 2017 also declined from $6.4 billion in 2016 to $5.6
billion in Jan-Mar 2017.
During Prime Minister's visit to the U.S. in September 2014, the two sides set a target to increase
bilateral trade in goods & services to $500 billion. In June 2016, PM Modi and President Obama
pledged to explore new opportunities to break down barriers to the movement of goods and
services, and support deeper integration into global supply chains, thereby creating jobs and
generating prosperity in both economies.
6. According to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, US direct investments in India stood at $
28.33 billion in 2015. As per Indian official statistics, the cumulative FDI inflows from the US
from April 2000 to December 2015 amounted to about $ 17.94 billion constituting nearly 6% of
the total FDI into India, making the U.S. the fifth largest source of foreign direct investments
into India. In recent years, growing Indian investments into the US, has been a novel feature of
bilateral ties. According to CII and Grant Thornton survey released in August 2015, 100 Indian
companies have made $ 15 billion worth of tangible investments across 35 states, creating more
than 91,000 American jobs. Among large Indian corporations having investments in the U.S.
include Reliance Industries Limited, Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro, Essar America, Piramal,
Mahindra, Lupin, SunPharma, etc.
There are several dialogue mechanisms to strengthen bilateral engagement on economic and
trade issues, including a Ministerial level Economic and Financial Partnership (last met in
Washington D.C. in April 2016) and a Ministerial Trade Policy Forum (last met in New Delhi in
October 2016). For greater involvement of private sector in discussion on issues involving trade
and investment, there is a bilateral India-U.S. CEO's Forum, which held its last meeting in
August 2016 in New Delhi coinciding with the Strategic & Commercial Dialogue.
India and the US have set up a bilateral Investment Initiative in 2014, with a special focus on
facilitating FDI, portfolio investment, capital market development and financing of
infrastructure. U.S.-India Infrastructure Collaboration Platform has also been set up to deploy
cutting edge U.S technologies to meet India’s infrastructure needs. Both these dialogues have
held meetings in 2015. U.S. firms will be lead partners in developing Allahabad, Ajmer and
Vishakhapatnam as Smart Cities. The two leaders during Prime Minister Modi’s visit to the
United States in June 2016 welcomed the engagement of U.S. private sector companies in India’s
smart city programme. USAID will serve as knowledge partner for the Urban India Water,
Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) alliance to help leverage business and civil society (Gates
Foundation) to facilitate access to clean water, hygiene and sanitation in 500 Indian cities.
Energy and Climate Change:
The U.S.-India Energy Dialogue was launched in May 2005 to promote trade and investment in
the energy sector, and held its last meeting in September 2015 in Washington DC. There are six
working groups in oil & gas, coal, power and energy efficiency, new technologies& renewable
energy, civil nuclear co-operation and sustainable development under the Energy Dialogue.
Investment by Indian companies like Reliance, Essar and GAIL in the U.S. natural gas market is
ushering in a new era of India-U.S. energy partnership. The U.S. Department of Energy has so
far given its approval for export of LNG from seven liquefaction terminals in the U.S., to
countries with which the U.S. does not have a free trade agreement (FTA) - with two of these
five terminals, the Indian public sector entity, Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) has off-
take agreements, totaling nearly 6 million metric tonnes per annum (MTPA). These terminals are
expected to be complete and in a position to export cargoes by late 2016/early 2017.
As a priority initiative under the PACE (Partnership to Advance Clean Energy), the U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE) and the Government of India have established the Joint Clean
7. Energy Research and Development Center (JCERDC) designed to promote clean energy
innovations by teams of scientists from India and the United States, with a total joint committed
funding from both Governments of US$ 50 million.
India and the U.S. are advancing cooperation and dialogue on climate change through a high-
level Climate Change Working Group and a Joint Working Group on Hydroflurocarbon. In
November 2014, an MoU between U.S. EXIM Bank and Indian Renewable Energy
Development Agency (IREDA) was concluded to provide US$ 1 billion in financing for India’s
transition to a low-carbon economy. A new U.S.-India Partnership for Climate Resilience has
been agreed to, in order to advance capacity for climate adaptation planning, as also a new U.S.-
India Climate Fellowship Program to build long-term capacity to address climate change-related
issues.
To further collaboration in the area of clean energy and climate change, in June 2016, the two
sides announced finalization of a package to provide concessional finance to support clean
energy projects on track, to coordinate U.S. Government efforts on clean energy investment in
India jointly with leading Indian financial institutions, and to provide liquidity to small scale
renewable energy investors.
Education:
Cooperation in education sector has been made an integral part of the strategic partnership
between the two countries. The Fulbright program was renewed in 2008, with enhanced mandate
and joint funding, to provide more student and scholar exchange grants. About 130,000 Indian
students are pursuing advanced degrees in the U.S. The Higher Education Dialogue, which has
had four meetings since 2011 (last in November 2014 in New Delhi), laid out the road map for
promoting strategic institutional partnerships, deepening collaboration in research and
development, fostering partnerships in vocational education and focusing on junior faculty
development.
India is learning from the U.S. experience in community colleges in order to meet our demands
for skill-development. It has been agreed to collaborate with U.S. institutions in the area of
Technology Enabled Learning and Massive Open On-line Courses (MOOCs) to extend the reach
of education in India. Under the Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) launched by
India, upto 1000 American academics will be invited and hosted each year to teach in Indian
universities at their convenience. The two sides are also collaborating to establish a new Indian
Institute of Technology in Ahmedabad.
Space:
A bilateral Joint Working Group on Civil Space Cooperation provides a forum for discussion on
joint activities in space, including (i) exchange of scientists; (ii) OCM2, INSAT3D collaboration;
(iii) Cooperation on Mars mission; (iv) nano-satellites; (v) carbon /ecosystem monitoring and
modeling; (vi) feasibility of collaboration in radio occultation: (vii) Earth Science Cooperation:
(viii) international space station; (ix) global navigation satellite systems; (x) L&S band SAR; (xi)
space exploration cooperation; (xii) space debris mediation. The last meeting of the JWG was
8. held in September 2015 in Bengaluru. NASA and ISRO are collaborating for India's Mars
Orbiter Mission and for a dual-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR). In June 2016, ISRO
successfully launched record 20 satellites onboard PSLV rocket, which included 13 satellites
from the United States.
Science & Technology (S&T):
The India-U.S. S&T cooperation has been steadily growing under the framework of U.S.-India
Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement signed in October 2005. There is an Indo-U.S.
Science & Technology Joint Commission, co-chaired by the Science Advisor to U.S. President
and Indian Minister of S&T. The U.S. attended as the partner country at the Technology Summit
2014 at New Delhi.
In 2000, both the governments endowed the India-U.S. Science & Technology Forum (IUSSTF)
to facilitate mutually beneficial bilateral cooperation in science, engineering, and health. Over
the past decade, the IUSSTF has facilitated more than 12,000 interactions between Indian and
U.S. scientists, supported over 250 bilateral workshops and established over 30 joint research
centers. The U.S.-India Science & Technology Endowment Fund, established in 2009, under the
Science and Technology Endowment Board promote commercialization of jointly developed
innovative technologies with the potential for positive societal impact.
Collaboration between the Ministry of Earth Sciences and U.S. National Oceanographic and
Atmospheric Administration has been strengthened under the 2008 MOU on Earth Observations
and Earth Sciences. A "monsoon desk" has been established at the U.S. National Centers for
Environmental Prediction. India's contribution of $250 million towards Thirty-Meter Telescope
Project in Hawaii and Indian Initiative in Gravitational Observations (IndiGO) with U.S. LIGO
Laboratory are examples of joint collaboration to create world-class research facilities.
Health Sector:
Under the 2010 U.S.-India Health Initiative, four working groups have been organized in the
areas of Non-Communicable Diseases, Infectious Diseases, Strengthening Health Systems and
Services, and Maternal and Child Health. In order to build up the disease surveillance and
epidemiological capacity in India, Global Disease Detection-India Centre was established in
2010 and an Epidemic Intelligence Service program launched in Oct 2012. U.S. National
Institutes of Health, the Indian Council of Medical Research, and India's Department of
Biotechnology have developed a robust relationship in the biomedical and behavioral health
sciences, research related to HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases,
eye disease, hearing disorders, mental health, and low-cost medical technologies. In the first
meeting of the Health Dialogue in September 2015 in Washington DC, both sides agreed to
collaborate institutionally in the new areas of mental health and regulatory and capacity-building
aspects of traditional medicine.
People to people ties:
9. The 3.5-million-plus strong Indian American community is an important ethnic group in the
U.S., accounting for about 1% of the total population in the country. Indian American
community includes a large number of professionals, business entrepreneurs and educationalists
with increasing influence in the society. With two Indian Americans occupying high level posts
of Governor and several representatives of the people, the Indian Diaspora has assimilated into
their adopted country and is acting as a catalyst to forge closer and stronger ties between India
and the U.S. The two countries have been working together to facilitate travel of their respective
citizens, and to this end an MOU has been signed in June 2016 to facilitate India's joining of the
Global Entry Programme for expedited immigration for eligible Indian citizens at U.S. airports.
Cultural cooperation:
Cultural cooperation between India and the U.S. is rich and manifest in diverse ways. Apart from
the India-focused educational programs at the Universities and educational institutions, many
private institutions teach Indian cultural arts. In addition to the website
‘www.indianembassy.org’ and social media channels, the Embassy provides updated information
on various aspects of India that are relevant to the United States, through its various publications,
including “India: Partner in Growth”, a weekly newsletter focusing on business and strategic
matters, and “India Live", a monthly newsletter providing information on initiatives of the
Embassy and the Consulates, major developments in India, and culture and tourism.
Cultural activities by the Embassy are grouped in to Reading India Series (featuring events
related to Indian authors and writings), Performing Indian Series (featuring music, dance and
theatre), Beholding India Series (film screening, art and photo exhibitions), Understanding India
Series (featuring lectures on comprehensive and cross-sectional views of India), and Young India
Series (cultural events catering specifically to younger audience).
During the visit of Prime Minister to the U.S. in June 2016, the two countries also announced
their decision to celebrate 2017 as Travel and Tourism Partner Countries.
Media:
Indian media is present in strength in the U.S., including PTI, IANS, Times of India, The Hindu,
The Hindustan Times, Outlook, Pioneer and other Indian media organizations, which have
correspondents based in Washington D.C. and other major cities. The TV channels represented
in the U.S. include NDTV, Times Now, CNN-IBN and Asia TV. Reflecting the growing
relevance of Internet based information dissemination, correspondents from websites like
Rediff.com, Firstpost.com based here also cover the India-U.S. relations.
Useful Resources:
Embassy of India Washington Website:
https://www.indianembassy.org/
Embassy of India Washington facebook: