India’s annual good exports crossed $400 billion mark for the first time ever.
Exports are buoyed by an increase in shipments of merchandise, including engineering products, apparel and garments, gems and jewellery and petroleum products.
Exports had reached $331.02 billion in the pre pandemic fiscal year of 2018-19.
Commerce ministry expects the exports to cross $410 billion.
# Chinese Finance minister
Chinese foreign minister Wang yi is expected to land in Delhi in Thursday evening for the first such visit by a Chinese official since the PLA transgressions at the Line of actual control in April 2020.
Wang yi is expected to meet external affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and national security advisor Ajit Doval.
They are expected to discuss the way forward on LAC issue, the war in Ukraine and the BRICS process.
# G20
Russian President Vladimir Putin received valuable backing from Beijing on Wednesday in a pushback to suggestions by some members that Russia could be barred from the G20 group.
The US and its western allies are assessing whether Russia should remain within the group of twenty major economies following its invasion of Ukraine.
China, which has not condemned Russia’s invasion, defended Moscow, calling Russia an important member of the G20 group.
# Abel prize
The Norwegian academy of Science and letters had awarded the Abel prize for the year 2022 to American mathematicians Dennis parnell Sullivan.
He is with the Graduate school and University center of the city university of New York and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.