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C Raja Mohan writes | Resilience and patience helped Delhi weather Trump’s tariff storm. India-US partnership is structurally sound, durable

C Raja Mohan writes | Resilience and patience helped Delhi weather Trump’s tariff storm. India-US partnership is structurally sound, durable

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The finalisation of the India-US trade deal this week brings to a close a turbulent year in bilateral ties and clears the way for Delhi and Washington to focus on the broader agenda outlined by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump at their White House meeting on February 13, 2025. The two leaders had emphasised the importance of a quick trade deal and called for deeper cooperation in defence industrialisation, critical and emerging technologies, and strategic coordination in the Indo-Pacific. The trade deal announced by the two leaders on social media on Monday needs to be formalised, and there are several elements that will need to be fleshed out to mutual satisfaction. Complex negotiations and imaginative diplomatic work lie ahead in putting the bilateral commercial ties on a high and sustainable growth path. If Trump was incredibly tough and transactional over the last year, Modi displayed resilience — tempered by patience — in weathering the tariff storm. Delhi neither capitulated nor escalated. Instead, it opted for quiet, persistent engagement. The durability of the …

Five-member technical panel certifies new Pamban rail bridge as ‘structurally safe’

Five-member technical panel certifies new Pamban rail bridge as ‘structurally safe’

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The new and old Pamban rail bridges. File | Photo Credit: L. Balachandar The five-member high-level committee appointed by the Ministry of Railways to study the stability of the newly constructed Pamban rail bridge has cleared its design, certifying that the 2.08-km-long bridge is structurally safe. The committee comprising Principal Executive Director (PED), Bridges; PED, Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO); Chief Bridge Engineer (Southern Railway); Director of Rail Vikas Nigam Limited; and an external expert from IIT-Roorkee had inspected the bridge early January. “Having deliberated on the adequacy of design of the bridge, the committee concludes that the bridge has been designed as per the relevant provisions of Indian Railway Standards Steel Bridge Code, duly accounting for the fatigue for annual traffic of 50 gross million tonnes and design life of 100 years,” the panel said in its report dated January 11, 2025, a copy of which has been accessed by The Hindu. “Thus, the bridge is structurally safe to serve the intended purposes,” the report concluded. ‘Satisfied with design of lift span’ According …