India, Australia ink landmark defence pact after Modi-Morrison online summit
India and Australia on Thursday inked a landmark agreement for reciprocal access to military bases for logistics support besides firming up six more pacts to further broadbase ties after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison held an online summit.
A draft defence production and export promotion policy is likely to be issued within a month, the Centre has said, noting that this will give a major push to the 'Make in India' programme.
The launch of a SpaceX rocket ship with two NASA astronauts on a history-making flight into orbit was called off with less than 17 minutes to go in the countdown because of thunderclouds and the danger of lightning; the liftoff has been rescheduled for Saturday afternoon.
The pandemic has created an opportunity of a golden kind for the country to bank upon its own resources – manpower and otherwise – to turn the tables on the crisis by opening up new avenues and opportunities in the direction of self-reliance and self-sustenance to build a stronger, more powerful, resurgent India in the foreseeable future.
