UK: Hammond and Carney travel to India

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Philip Hammond and Mark Carney will lead a delegation of top policymakers to India this week to “bang the drum for British business” as the country seeks to strengthen ties outside the EU.

The Chancellor will travel to Delhi and Mumbai to promote Britain as India’s “financial partner of choice”, as the world’s seventh largest economy continues its rapid rise.

Mr Carney will accompany Mr Hammond alongside bosses from financial technology firms including payments company TransferWise.

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Hammond and Carney travel to India as ministers 'bang the drum' for UK business

 

[gtopa1]

Welcome back to the Commonwealth, UK. Maybe they could improve the wickets while they're at it!!

Greg

 

[Tommy Tainant]

India isn’t buying Britain’s trade charm offensive. We should take the hint | Vince Cable

As usual India wants to discuss immigration whilst the UK wants to discuss trade.

I wonder if any of those thick bastards thought this through ?

 

[Vikrant]

Welcome back to the Commonwealth, UK. Maybe they could improve the wickets while they're at it!!

Greg

Whining after losing a test series to a better team is not very cool. The last match was played in Dharamshala where pitch was creating high bounce, an ideal situation for Aussie pace bowlers. Yet, you guys lost decisively. Ironically it was India's pace bowlers who dismantled Aussie top order batsmen. Spinners came later to finish the job

 

[Vikrant]

India isn’t buying Britain’s trade charm offensive. We should take the hint | Vince Cable

As usual India wants to discuss immigration whilst the UK wants to discuss trade.

I wonder if any of those thick bastards thought this through ?

Immigration and trade are not decoupled from one another.

 

[gtopa1]

Welcome back to the Commonwealth, UK. Maybe they could improve the wickets while they're at it!!

Greg

Whining after losing a test series to a better team is not very cool. The last match was played in Dharamshala where pitch was creating high bounce, an ideal situation for Aussie pace bowlers. Yet, you guys lost decisively. Ironically it was India's pace bowlers who dismantled Aussie top order batsmen. Spinners came later to finish the job

I whined after we won the First Test by over 300 runs. It was a great series but the wickets do need to be up to international standard. Losing Kholi turned out to be a blessing.

Greg

 

[Vikrant]

Welcome back to the Commonwealth, UK. Maybe they could improve the wickets while they're at it!!

Greg

Whining after losing a test series to a better team is not very cool. The last match was played in Dharamshala where pitch was creating high bounce, an ideal situation for Aussie pace bowlers. Yet, you guys lost decisively. Ironically it was India's pace bowlers who dismantled Aussie top order batsmen. Spinners came later to finish the job

I whined after we won the First Test by over 300 runs. It was a great series but the wickets do need to be up to international standard. Losing Kholi turned out to be a blessing.

Greg

Any wicket Australia loses on is not up to international standard. Australian team and its fans need to grow up. I can totally understand why Kohli and other Indian cricketers were fed up with Aussies. Learn to lose gracefully, my friend.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Welcome back to the Commonwealth, UK. Maybe they could improve the wickets while they're at it!!

Greg

Whining after losing a test series to a better team is not very cool. The last match was played in Dharamshala where pitch was creating high bounce, an ideal situation for Aussie pace bowlers. Yet, you guys lost decisively. Ironically it was India's pace bowlers who dismantled Aussie top order batsmen. Spinners came later to finish the job

I whined after we won the First Test by over 300 runs. It was a great series but the wickets do need to be up to international standard. Losing Kholi turned out to be a blessing.

Greg

Any wicket Australia loses on is not up to international standard. Australian team and its fans need to grow up. I can totally understand why Kohli and other Indian cricketers were fed up with Aussies. Learn to lose gracefully, my friend.

Plus ca change....................

 

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UK needs trade with India

 

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India alone invested more in UK than the entire Europe combined

 

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New Delhi: In a sign of the increasing prominence of India in United Kingdom’s military vision, visiting Britain’s defence secretary Michael Fallon and Union defence minister Arun Jaitley announced a forward-looking joint statement after a delegation-level meeting on Thursday that focused on cooperation in key military areas under the framework of the India-UK Strategic Defence Dialogue.

The statement emphasises on “commitments (that) will better enable the UK and India to meet the evolving threats and challenges that face democracies in the 21st century”.

Significantly, Mr Fallon’s visit is the third one by a UK Cabinet minister this month on the heels of chancellor of the exchequer Philip Hammond and energy minister Greg Clark. Mr Fallon is on a four-day India visit that concludes on Friday.

While the core aim is to enhance “mutual capabilities and effectiveness through joint training and doctrine development”, the visit reaffirmed and consolidated UK-India defence cooperation in the framework of the Defence and International Security Partnership, agreed in November 2015, and the subsequent joint statement between the two governments in November 2016.

Besides stronger military to military engagement, including training and advanced joint exercises, the “renewed engagement will place capability and technology development at its core and seek to harness the complementary strengths of both nations in defence manufacturing and use the combined strengths of their respective private and public sectors to develop defence solutions for use in both home and shared export markets,” the joint statement said.

Keeping the changed global security scenario in mind, counter-terrorism was a priority item on the agenda, especially to exchange information to track terrorist and pirate vessels which is significant in view of the increasing threat India faces from the seas and in the backdrop of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in 2008 which exposed the vulnerability of India’s coastlines to forces inimical to the country’s interest.

India and UK will explore establishing a secure communications method in order to share classified material that may lead to upgrading their bilateral General Security Arrangement.

The discussions also focused on further developing cooperation between the UK hydrographic office and the Indian Navy hydrographic office.

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India, UK firm up defence ties