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The video highlights significant global and domestic developments, starting with US President Donald Trump's imposition of a 25% tariff and penalties on Indian goods, effective from August 1, due to India's arms trade with Russia and oil imports. It examines the economic repercussions on sectors like automobiles, electronics, and jewelry, alongside expert opinions and opposition criticism of India's foreign policy. The segment also addresses the 'Operation Sindoor' debate in Parliament and features an exclusive interview with Dr. Farooq Abdullah, who critiques security lapses and advocates for Jammu and Kashmir's statehood restoration. Additional stories include the launch of the $1.5 billion NASA-ISRO satellite, India's withdrawal from the Cricket Legends semi-final against Pakistan, the killing of five terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir, a dishonour killing in Tamil Nadu, and harassment of a Kargil war veteran's family in Pune over citizenship verification.
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00:00Good evening, hello and welcome. You're with the news today, your primetime destination news, newsmakers, talking points.
00:07Our big talking point is coming from Donald Trump. That's right, he's making the headlines yet again.
00:14He slapped a 25% tariff plus penalties on India just two days ahead of that August 1 proposed interim trade deal.
00:24How will Trump's tariffs now impact India? Has India been caught off guard?
00:30Also, the Operation Sindhu debate ends in Parliament.
00:35My special guest today will be the voice of, one of the voices of Jammu and Kashmir, Paruk Abdullah,
00:41will join me as to why he believes the debate hasn't done enough for the people of his state.
00:47But first, as always, it's time for the nine headlines at nine.
00:51U.S. President Donald Trump imposes a 25% tariffs plus penalty from August 1st on India for arms trading with Russia and oil imports.
01:05Center holds an emergency huddle to draft an immediate response to Trump.
01:12Opposition targets the Modi government after the Trump tariff says India's attempts to curry favour with White House have not worked.
01:20Asked Modi to stand up to Trump.
01:25In the Lok Sabha debate, in the Rajya Sabha debate on Operation Sindhu,
01:29Home Minister Amit Shah rejects the Congress' demand for his resignation for Pahlgaam security lapses,
01:35accuses the Congress of speaking in Pakistan's voice.
01:40Two Kerala nuns are arrested in Chhattisgarh.
01:43They will remain in jail on charge of trafficking and forced conversion.
01:47Sessions court recommends hearing transfer to an NIA court.
01:53Big dishonour killing shame in Tamil Nadu.
01:56Dalit techie hacked to death for wanting to marry lover-killer arrested by the police.
02:01NASA and ISRO's $1.5 billion powerful earth-monitoring satellite takes off from Shri Harikota.
02:09Mission aims to provide data on earthquakes, volcanoes and ice sheet changes.
02:18Tsunami waves hit Hawaii and Japan after 8.8-magnitude Russian earthquake warnings issued then later downgraded.
02:25India officially withdraws from the World Championship of Cricket Legends.
02:32Cricketers refused to play the semis where India was to face Pakistan.
02:39And ahead of the big fifth test in England, injured Ben Stokes is out.
02:45England also rest Archer and Cass.
02:48India need to win the test to level the series.
02:50For our top story that's breaking at this moment,
03:03U.S. President Donald Trump has declared a 25% tariff on India from the 1st of August.
03:13That's right.
03:13Trump's tariffs, which come into effect in 48 hours, include not just tariffs but penalties.
03:22Trump says India is the largest buyer of energy from Russia at a time when Russia is at war with Ukraine.
03:29The Modi government says it's studying the implications of the U.S. tariffs.
03:33The government says we'll take all steps to secure our national interest, though no official statement has come.
03:39The government says they're still committed to concluding a fair trade deal with the United States.
03:45Remember, it was August 1 that was seen as the deadline for an interim trade deal.
03:52But that may not quite happen with this dramatic announcement by Donald Trump.
03:57It's just Donald Trump playing hard.
04:00Karishma Asudhani of Business today joins us.
04:02Karishma, how is India reacting to this news?
04:05Was this something they expected or have they been caught a little off guard?
04:12Rajdeep, I think they were prepared because I remember when I was interacting a week ago with the government officials.
04:19Interestingly, somebody from the trade ministry highlighted and told me that if you do a check of India's export basket to the U.S.,
04:29you will see keeping pharmaceuticals aside, there was not much to lose because the other sectors,
04:36the kind of exports we do are minimum when compared to that of pharmaceuticals.
04:41So that did give me some kind of hint that actually India was preparing for this day to come.
04:48Of course, it is not something that they were wanting to come and that is why they were trying to put in a lot of negotiations.
04:55Five rounds of negotiations were held by India's chief negotiator in Washington.
05:01Of course, Trade Minister Piyush Goyal was in Washington a couple of times.
05:05Prime Minister Modi also wanting to strike a deal.
05:08Surprising that the first mover advantage and the friendly terms between India and Washington could not result in India's favor.
05:16And so much so that now we are in fact behind a lot of countries, including that of Vietnam, who was our competitor with the whole China plus one policy.
05:28And this is going to put us on a back burner, at least for some time, until and unless the September or October BTA pulls off really well
05:36and Donald Trump decides to rest the case when it comes to his friendship with us.
05:42Thank you for giving us a sense of how India is looking at this announcement by Trump.
05:48Thank you very much for joining me here at the top of the news.
05:51Now, opposition parties have already hit out at the Modi government, accusing it of bowing, of despite bowing to Donald Trump,
06:00they haven't got the desired results, claims the opposition.
06:03The government is silent at the moment, but listen in to what the opposition has just said outside parliament.
06:08The government has only believed in this kind of Audi-Modi, Aptimbar, Modi's Trump's car, all these kind of events only.
06:17They are more concentrated in how many countries Mr. Modi has got, how many awards he has got, how many people received in the airport.
06:25This is the thing Mr. Modi's government is concentrating.
06:27And at last, they have let down our India's strength itself.
06:32India's strength, this government is not able to understand.
06:36We need to understand foreign policy and diplomatic relations has to be on our strength, not on our weakness.
06:42And if Mr. Trump is able to do these kind of things with us, which is affecting India,
06:47this is wholly Mr. Modi and government is responsible.
06:50A huge decision by Trump administration, 25% tariff, along with penalty.
06:56How do you see this?
06:58It's a huge blow on this country.
07:01And the government of India and its representatives were saying that they are going to have a deal,
07:07fair deal with the United States.
07:09All of a sudden, when the parliament has been having a discourse on Pahalgam, Operation Sindhu,
07:15wherein Donald Trump also had figured in a big way, the statement that has come up from Donald Trump is a huge setback.
07:26Let's go straight also to raise those big questions.
07:29How will Donald Trump's tariffs really hit India?
07:33Is this simply a pressure tactic by Trump ahead of that August 1st initial deadline?
07:38How should India be responding?
07:40Is an India-U.S. trade deal still possible?
07:42Remember, that deal was to be worked out in the autumn, so more likely in September, October now.
07:48Before that, let's just explain to you what this Trump announcement means.
07:5325% plus tariffs.
07:56Now, what does it mean?
07:58Our exports may not be as competitive anymore, particularly in a highly competitive United States markets
08:04where other competitors, Vietnam, for example, go into that market now with lower tariffs, around 20%.
08:11Smartphones, electronics, auto, marine products, gems and jewellery could be hit.
08:17Textiles and apparel may see mixed outcomes because India there will compete with other countries like Bangladesh, for example.
08:27And some companies may shift out of India to bypass tariffs if, of course, all of this was to still be in place in the weeks and months ahead.
08:36And the rupee may weaken due to reduced dollar inflows, stock markets may be hit.
08:43Economists estimate if this carries on, a 0.2 to 0.5% according to some estimates, a hit on India's GDP.
08:51An impact of the penalty surcharge on procurement from Russia is unclear.
08:57Pharma, semiconductors, critical minerals are exempt for now.
09:02So, there are some gains, some are hoping we may find alternative markets, but at least as far as the United States goes,
09:11this isn't really what India had hoped for, at least not in the interim.
09:16How will all of this play out in the weeks ahead?
09:19Joining me now, Casey Singh, former Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs is with us.
09:24Siddharth Zarabi, editor at Business Today, who tracks this very closely, is with us.
09:30And Raymond Vickery, Senior Associate Chair on India and Emerging Asia Economies,
09:35former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Trade Development, is joining me from Washington.
09:41And I want to come to you, Mr. Vickery, first, because give us a sense from your vantage point there in Washington.
09:47How are you seeing what Donald Trump has done today, along expected lines, particularly when he says he's going to impose penalties on India for trading in energy with Russia?
10:02Well, thanks very much for having me.
10:05I think this is an unfortunate development, but is in accordance with the Trump transactional approach to international affairs.
10:14You know, since World War II, we've had a multilateral approach.
10:21The first, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and then the World Trade Organization.
10:27And Donald Trump has cast this all aside for his great man theory of how international relations work.
10:35And he would like to have this done like a real estate transaction, in which he comes out on top and can show a, quote, profit, unquote.
10:46This is not the way in which friends, great democracies like India and the United States ought to treat each other.
10:55There really is no problem internationally that couldn't benefit from U.S.-India cooperation, whether it be in security versus China, climate change, world health, and so on.
11:09But all that having been said, the reality is what it is.
11:14And both India and the United States must deal with the present reality of Donald Trump.
11:21That means, in my judgment, that India needs to assess what's in its own interest and look toward the middle and longer term.
11:33It needs to assess what's in its own interest in terms of further opening up its own economy.
11:38It is true that since independence, or going back to independence, there was an idea that India needed to protect all of its economic activities so it could build, in that instance, socialism in one country.
11:54Now, those days have passed, but there's still a lot of remnants of protectionism, which India needs in its own self-interest to reassess.
12:05One of the interesting aspects of the statement has to do with Russia, and on that, India needs to take another look itself.
12:14Where are its values?
12:16Russia is bent on reestablishing the empire which it had when it was head of the USSR.
12:25That's not in India's interest.
12:28India has gotten some cheaper oil, not cheap oil, but cheaper oil and arms for years.
12:36But India needs to take a leadership role among democracies.
12:41It does not need to be able to just pander to Russia or even to China to be able to survive.
12:51And what it needs is to operate in the international arena in accordance with its own democratic values, and those are not those of Russia.
13:02So it's very interesting to see what India will decide in that area.
13:08Casey Singh, you're hearing Raymond Vickery particularly sort of emphasizing the Russia factor.
13:14India needs to decide what's in its own interest.
13:17Now, Raymond Vickery says possibly that India needs to re-look at their arrangement.
13:21India will say, look, who is the United States to dictate terms?
13:25Your first reactions to what Donald Trump has done.
13:28The opposition is already gunning for the Modi government, saying that the Modi government's strategy of reaching out to the Trump administration has not worked.
13:35On the flip side, you could argue that India is holding tough and not bowing down before Donald Trump?
13:41Rajdeep, it's very interesting, the truth social tweet kind of thing of Trump, in which he has put all this, ends with capital letters.
13:53It says, all things not good.
13:56And I think Russia comes towards the end of it.
13:59So what has changed?
14:01Till now, the impression we had was that we had it till autumn to finalize a deal.
14:06The U.S. delegation is coming here in the third week or third or early fourth week of August.
14:12And so there were some stumbling blocks and they were trying to get rid of that or see how they could manage U.S.
14:20But I think what has probably shifted is the U.S. approach, Trump's approach to Russia.
14:28You see, on Ukraine, he's given the weapons back.
14:30He's saying he's unhappy with Putin.
14:33Putin is not listening to him.
14:34So all of a sudden, Ukraine, which during the first three, four months of his presidency, he was not paying as much attention to.
14:42He was more siding with Russia.
14:44He's reversed his position considerably.
14:48And I think that is one of the things which is probably irritating him, that he wants to exert pressure on Russia to get a ceasefire in Ukraine.
14:56That is one thing.
14:58Now, that may or may not happen, but that's the way Trump thinks.
15:01Now, the other thing is that he's got a deal with the EU.
15:04Now, countries are falling into a couple of two or three different groups.
15:08One is those who are defying him.
15:10You've got Brazil.
15:11You've got Canada.
15:13You've got China.
15:13Now, how did China get away with it?
15:16Massive tariffs were put, but the Chinese pulled back on rare earths and magnets, which started affecting the U.S. economy.
15:23And Trump climbed down.
15:26Now, what is the leverage that we have?
15:27You see, Brazil doesn't require America as much as we do.
15:31America has a trade surplus with Brazil.
15:33And Brazil has simply shifted their agricultural crops to China.
15:38Our problem is we have outstanding problems with China.
15:41We can't become totally aligned with China.
15:43And at the same time, what is the leverage we have with America?
15:48For the last 10 years, it's been based on U.S. giving India a long rope because we were supposed to be balancing China.
15:57Now, in Trump's approach, that does not work.
16:00He's interested in dealing with China directly.
16:03He's not interested in using India as a balancing force and therefore giving any long rope to anyone.
16:09So I think that's what has happened.
16:10India should have foreseen it coming.
16:13And I think they have just quietly submitted.
16:16And now the problem is you can humor him.
16:18One way of humoring is Pakistan has gone ahead, promised minerals, and therefore economic.
16:23One is bribery, minerals, his family gaining wealth.
16:27And the other one is you humor him.
16:28And it's Pakistan, which went and nominated him for a Nobel Prize.
16:33Whereas in India, we are debating whether he is mediated or not mediated between India and Pakistan.
16:39So I think BJP has got into a jam because Prime Minister can't be seen as bowing to him.
16:44At the same time, you basically adopted a submissive role, not taking on America.
16:51And therefore, how do you handle Trump?
16:54Okay, how do you handle Trump?
16:56That's a question many, many governments are asking at the moment, Casey Singh.
17:00But you make important points.
17:02I want to take that also to Surjit Bhalla, who's joining us.
17:05Remember, Surjit Bhalla has tracked the economy for years.
17:08And he's been someone who's worked very closely also as former executive director at IMF for India, looking at the region.
17:16Surjit Bhalla, your first reactions to what Donald Trump has done.
17:19I recall a few months ago, you said a potential tariff deal between India and America is a huge opportunity for India.
17:26Given what Trump has done, do you still hold on to that?
17:28Absolutely.
17:31You know, nothing has changed.
17:33We've had trade negotiations for five months.
17:36And what I want to emphasize is what I emphasize then, is that it's in India's interest to have a trade deal.
17:47We can say it is Trump that is making...
17:50But a fair trade deal.
17:51A fair trade deal.
17:52A fair trade deal.
17:53Sorry?
17:54A fair trade deal.
17:55You need a fair trade deal, Sean.
17:57Now, you know, at the beginning, you had said that the opposition is gunning for Mr. Modi and the BJP government.
18:07But the strange reality is that there's no difference in the BJP government's approach to the trade deal and the Congress government's approach to the trade deal.
18:20Nothing has changed.
18:23We are still as...
18:24Trump is threatening to impose penalties, Dr. Bhalla.
18:27Trump is threatening to impose penalties.
18:29I mean, this seems to be an open-ended attempt to try and put pressure on India to come to a deal on U.S. terms.
18:36Okay.
18:37There are two points to this.
18:39The first one is a trade deal.
18:42And then we'll come to the penalty, which is still up for negotiation.
18:47And mind you, that penalty is part of the geopolitics of the world.
18:53Has to do with the Ukraine war.
18:55Has to do with various other things.
18:58So, if we can compartmentalize and do one by one, we'll be better able to reach what should be a solution, what should be a negotiating strategy.
19:11So, first and foremost, we should negotiate in our own best interest.
19:17Now, one of the sticking points, so to speak, between India and the U.S., as far as the trade deal is concerned, is tariffs on farm and dairy products.
19:33Yes.
19:33Now, right after the Congress and the opposition went all out to stop the farm laws, which they were stopped, unfortunately, by the Modi government, the Supreme Court did a survey of farmers as to who they would want, as to whether they would want the farm laws to come into effect.
20:0087% of Indian farmers, 87% Supreme Court survey said they wanted the farm laws.
20:11So, the point is, we have to look beyond our narrow thing and look at what the deep state is doing.
20:17Somebody else is controlling.
20:19So, are you saying a broader trade deal should include very quickly the agriculture products, dairy products as well?
20:27Otherwise, I don't know what a broader trade deal means.
20:30Okay, let me stop you for a moment.
20:34Okay, go ahead.
20:35Finish up.
20:36Finish up.
20:36Yeah.
20:36Second, we have been touting the fact that we have reached a trade deal with the U.K.
20:43Now, part of the trade deal was supposed to be BITS, bilateral investment treaties.
20:50They haven't been dealt with at all with the U.K. trade deal.
20:55We've been negotiating that for ages to come out.
20:59And it was announced in the budget on February the 1st that we will re-look at BITS, bilateral investment trade deals.
21:09We haven't done a thing on it.
21:11So, let us be a little bit objective.
21:14And in the interests of India, what the BJP should do.
21:21And in the interests of India, the BJP should try and negotiate a trade deal that is good for Indian manufacturers, that is good for Indian farmers.
21:32So far, it doesn't appear that they have done that.
21:36I'm just stopping you for a moment because, Siddharth Zarabi, you've been tracking it.
21:40How are you seeing it, Siddharth Zarabi?
21:43Do you believe that one shouldn't overreact to what has happened?
21:46It could be Donald Trump simply negotiating hard, as he's done with other countries as well, and then may push back.
21:53He's just looking from America's interest point of view.
21:56How do you see it?
21:58Well, the first part to that question statement was issued by the Government of India at 8.30 p.m.
22:06And I think in response to what our other guests have said, Rajdeep, just two lines are very, very critical, which reveal the Government of India's stance.
22:16The first point is that the Government of India is saying we want a mutually beneficial bilateral trade agreement.
22:24That's point number one.
22:25And the last point it says alongside is that the Government attaches the utmost importance to protecting and promoting the welfare of farmers, entrepreneurs, and small and medium-sized companies.
22:39So in response to what has been discussed for the past 20 minutes on the show, it's very clear that there is no go as far as farm sectors, dairy sectors are concerned.
22:52Off record, we've also published a story where top officials are saying that this is an unfair pressure tactic.
23:01And that brings me to the most critical spanner that has been thrown in what were otherwise protracted, but very detailed negotiations.
23:10The quality of the negotiations, the quality of the negotiations, from what I have learned, was of a very, very high caliber.
23:15And those negotiations had reached some sort of finality in the form of a proposal, according to sources in the United States as of last week, were on President Trump's table.
23:27What Mr. Singh said, what Mr. Singh said, if you were to take it forward, the Russia factor seems to have come in.
23:33And the penalty percentage, this is going to be very, very important for a future conversation, negotiation, and meeting between the two teams.
23:42Trump had in the past said 10% on BRICS nations.
23:45Senator Lindsey Graham has proposed 100%, and he has also said to crush the economies of countries like Brazil, China, and India.
23:57Is it going to be 10% or 100% or somewhere in between?
24:00If this were to come through, it's very clear that President Trump will put our negotiators in a very, very tight corner.
24:10One final point, Rajdeep, which perhaps is being overlooked by what seems to be President Trump's personal discussion and not really fully in line with what his negotiating team have proposed, is this whole factor.
24:26Before April 1, it was 3% weighted in trade-weighted average terms, the duty.
24:31That's gone up to almost 12%.
24:34Now it is going to be 25% plus penalty.
24:37Imagine the consequences for a negotiation.
24:40So has President Trump decided to put the future of the India-US relationship, which is all-encompassing, on the stake?
24:51I don't know, but it's clearly going to be a tough negotiating environment in the future.
24:56I just want to, given what we've just heard, before I come to you, Mr. Vickery, for a final round,
25:01look at what Trump has been saying.
25:05Because ultimately, Donald Trump's quotes are the ones that make the headline.
25:10He warned only yesterday a 20% to 25% tariff on India.
25:15He's gone to the higher end and also added penalties.
25:18This is what Donald Trump's been saying.
25:20Just take a look at his soundbites.
25:21India's been, they're my friends, and he's my friend.
25:28And, you know, the end of the war with Pakistan at my request, and that was great.
25:32And Pakistan did also.
25:34You know, we did a lot of, a lot of great settlements, including the recent one, as you know, with Cambodia, blah, blah, blah.
25:42So, I was, that was a great one.
25:45I think that's been pretty well finalized now, right?
25:48I don't know.
25:48I'm asking you.
25:49Did I do a good job in that one?
25:51I did a good job in about five different wars.
25:55Do you think I'll get credit for it?
25:56No.
25:57Will I get credit for it?
25:58She'll say yes.
25:59No.
26:01Is the deal with India finalized?
26:04No, it's not.
26:05Okay.
26:05So, what rate are you expecting?
26:06Oh, we're going to see.
26:07We're going to see.
26:08But India's been a good friend.
26:10But India has charged basically more tariffs than almost any other country.
26:16I want quick comments this time from all of you as a final round.
26:20Raymond Vickery, Donald Trump keeps saying India is a good friend and then goes on to say good friend, but very high tariffs.
26:27How are we to see this?
26:28Is this pressure tactics?
26:29Is this, at the end of the day, Donald Trump trying to squeeze India?
26:33Very quickly, sir.
26:35With Donald Trump, nothing is about friendship.
26:38What it's all about is the transaction and the aggrandizement of Donald Trump.
26:46That's his approach.
26:49It's not the right approach, but it is the reality.
26:55And what must happen is that saner heads on both the Indian and the U.S. side must continue to value the relationship between the U.S. and India and work our way through the difficulty which President Trump basically has created.
27:16That's his stock and trade to create a problem and then to back off at least somewhat and then claim a great victory.
27:25That is the real estate mogul's approach in the United States to business.
27:32So we've worked our way through the nuclear test problem.
27:37We've worked our way through sanctions there.
27:39We've gotten a U.S.-India civil nuclear agreement and we can work our way through this.
27:45But it is going to require India to assess its own interest in regard to its values as well as the United States.
27:55And that has to do with Russia and it has to do with protectionism.
28:00Very quickly, Casey Singh, let's just look at it from a diplomatic point of view.
28:04What should Indian, how should Indian diplomacy now work?
28:08We've ignored Trump's comments where he's tried to link a ceasefire, Indo-Park ceasefire to trade so far.
28:15The prime minister's kept away from the T word.
28:17But should he now be speaking out or should our diplomat speak out and call out Donald Trump?
28:24No, I think speaking out will not help because we do not have much leverage with the U.S.
28:31As I said, the Chinese did.
28:32They just withheld their rear earths and the Americans climbed down.
28:37But what we can do is you'll probably have to compromise.
28:40It's what the Europeans did.
28:42It's not popular there.
28:43There's a lot of dissension.
28:45Countries like France are very critical of it.
28:48But they have accepted a 15% across-the-board duty.
28:52It's going to have long-term impact.
28:54But I think they're playing for time.
28:55They realize that by midterms next year, Trump may be completely handicapped if he loses the Congress.
29:02And so it's a question of playing over the next one year.
29:05So I suspect India will have to basically compromise and appear to come.
29:11They'll have to appear not to compromise and yet compromise.
29:15I don't see any other option at this stage.
29:17You don't see any other option.
29:19Surjit Bhalla, you've continuously said you're the one person who's been saying that this is a trade deal that's a win-win possibility.
29:26So you would suggest just stick at it and make it as broad a trade deal as possible.
29:32Am I correct?
29:34Without getting into the numbers.
29:36Yeah.
29:37Well, without getting into the numbers, what I would say is taking a cue from Mr. Casey saying is that we shouldn't compromise, but we should negotiate.
29:50There's no pride lost in negotiating.
29:54That's what diplomats are there for.
29:58And that's what countries do.
30:00They negotiate in their best interest to offer a win-win for themselves and for the other partner.
30:08And you maintain that it should also involve farm products.
30:13There will be those listening to you who will say politically that's unviable, not possible.
30:18Well, then explain to me, Rajdeep, when a Supreme Court survey of farmers in India says that reduction in farm laws or whatever, or continuation of farm laws, whichever way you want to phrase it, is in our best interest.
30:37That is what a trade deal with the US would do, would bring farm laws that we ourselves wanted, that Prime Minister Modi himself wanted to come into place.
30:51I see no pride lost, I see no harm, I see it's a win-win.
30:57We should present it, that we are doing what's in the best interest of our farmers.
31:02Okay, final word from you, Siddharth Zarabi.
31:05What do we expect over the next 48 hours leading to August 1?
31:08Will India simply now respond right away or be more patient over the next few weeks?
31:14Because there is an American delegation likely to come to India next month.
31:19Rajdeep, the immediate response has come.
31:22I expect that further negotiations will continue.
31:25But, you know, let's not imagine that India has no leverage.
31:29Remember, this conversation is about a goods deal.
31:33It doesn't concern services.
31:36And you have massive amounts of money that American tech companies make from India.
31:43By one research estimate, $25 billion by the big tech companies alone.
31:48Billions of dollars being spent by Indian students in the United States.
31:52Other forms of services, cooperations, the GCC hubs that we have created, which American companies are exploiting.
31:59It's not a one-way street, and I think, increasingly, India is also going to demonstrate and flex the leverage that it has.
32:08It's not going to be a one-way street, for sure.
32:11Okay. Very, very interesting.
32:13And, of course, a debate that will engage us for a few more weeks, I suspect,
32:18given Donald Trump's repeated attempts to shift the goalposts.
32:22But I appreciate my guests joining me here on what the implications could be of that big tariff announcement.
32:29Let's turn from there to the other big story that we've been tracking,
32:32the post-Operation Sindhu debate in Parliament and what's been happening in Jammu and Kashmir,
32:37where the five terrorists have now been killed in 48 hours in two separate military operations.
32:43A day after three Pahlkam terrorists were eliminated by forces during Operation Mahadev,
32:48today the army killed two suspected Lashkar terrorists.
32:50An encounter along the line of control in Jammu and Kashmir's poonch broke out this morning.
32:55Two suspected Lashkar terrorists were killed during this encounter.
32:59Codenamed Operation Shiv Shakti.
33:01Home Minister Amit Shah was speaking in the Rajya Sabah,
33:04lauding the army for the two operations,
33:06explaining how the precise location of the three terrorists was identified.
33:11The Home Minister, who has said there is no question of his resignation,
33:15said that India had hard proof of Pakistan's involvement
33:18and the opposition was only protecting them.
33:21Let's just listen in to what Amit Shah said.
33:23Let's just listen in to what Amit Shah
33:48खाली कार्टूसों को कबजे लिया था।
34:18राग को फोरेंसिक टेस्टिंग करकर सत्थ प्रतिसत्थ मिलान हुआ है के इन ही तीन राइफलों का उप्योप लिया गया था।
34:28and joining me now to give an assessment of this big debate that's taken place in parliament both
34:41houses on operation sindur is the grand old the grand young man of kashmir politics former chief
34:48minister and president of the jammu and kashmir national conference dr faruk abdullah dr abdullah
34:55it's been a long debate in parliament centered in a way on india's actions against pakistan but
35:04that cannot be discussed without looking at the situation in kashmir where that horrific attack
35:10in phil gam took place so at the end of this long debate how do you assess it from your vantage
35:17point there in srinagar have most of the questions been answered by this debate
35:23radeep thank you for putting me on your program the debate was long opposition did well
35:38they put their questions very clearly unfortunately the replies were not that clear and many replies were
35:46not given no any specific when you say many replies were not given or many answers were not clear let's
35:54be specific what is it specifically that faruk abdullah was expecting out of this debate that didn't
36:00happen let me tell you you let me tell you one they did not fix the responsibility on who failed
36:10the people who was responsible for that happened there and what action was taken against those people
36:20who were responsible for that what happened in palga the lg controls entire security here
36:29was he questioned was he taken to task were the other authorities that are here
36:34taken to task how did this happen that is one factor second they took the name of the people
36:45who were killed by those terrorists 25 and one kashmiri who was a helper there
36:54because he stood up and said this is wrong he paid with his life but they did not take the name
37:01of 18 people that paid the price of sindhur action sindhur 18 who died from punch from rajori from
37:16thunam this uh the wall area of our border uri no name was no no mention was made about them
37:26but his pain does you know but the fact is uh dr abdullah the government says that it has given a
37:35strong response to pakistan deterred pakistan in a way that was the government's theme the opposition's
37:42theme was the security lapses that led to palgam the government said we've given a tough response
37:48to pakistan and drawn a red line we will not fall for pakistan's nuclear blackmail
37:54does all of this to you actually mean that we have moved forward or do you still fear that terror
38:02attacks in the valley will continue
38:09look if you go back they removed article 370 saying that that article is responsible
38:17for terrorism in the state six years have passed since the article was removed
38:28have they removed terrorism is it wiped out as the home minister one week before that incident took
38:34place had said that he has uprooted them from the roots and there'll be no more terrorism is that correct
38:42is that what has happened no so am i to understand that you're holding the home minister and the lg squarely
38:50responsible for palgam and saying they didn't take responsibility for it and thereby you're saying the
38:57government of omar abdullah has nothing to do with what happened in palgam that they if there is
39:04responsibility to be fixed it has to be fixed at the door of the lg and the home minister is that what
39:09you're saying and that didn't happen in parliament i think i think i think the whole nation knows
39:17umar abdullah does not control security or anything like this there's absolutely nothing to
39:24do even he is not consulted when meetings are held of the unified command or when the home minister comes
39:32here and talks of the security situation the elected chief minister is not called what do you say about
39:42it but but it's interesting the elected and the promise to the state that the minute you have the
39:47election yes that you will be getting given the statehood where is that statehood where is it they
39:54promised it in the in the supreme court where is it but but dr abdullah how long do you but dr abdullah
40:01you will be you will recall dr abdullah that soon after pehal gaam when omar abdullah addressed the
40:06jammu and kashmir assembly he said this was not the right time to raise the issue of uh of statehood
40:12because the country was grieving with the victims now we are three months out do you believe that this
40:18issue should have been addressed in that parliament debate would you have like to see the parliament
40:23debate being the appropriate fora for the government to announce statehood for kashmir jammu and kashmir
40:31it was the best time i think the best time was when that thing happened and and the whole kashmiri
40:41people for the first time in 35 years rose against it and told our neighbor in one single voice
40:49that this is not acceptable to us you cannot take us for granted and you cannot kill innocent people
40:55in our state that was very clear they should have at that time honored the people and returned the statehood
41:05do you therefore believe that the way forward is to start with statehood is that what you are saying now
41:11that this is the appropriate time to give jammu and kashmir statehood because there will be those
41:17who will say given the fragile security situation at the moment this is we still need to see
41:24whether the situation is fully under control
41:31radeep what are you talking about what's happening in chattisgarh what is happening in other states
41:39you don't see terrorism there there are still states why are we suffering
41:45why are we not part of this indian union
41:54it's the only first time in my life since i have been part when india became free
42:01that states first state in this in the entire up to this time jammu and kashmir was converted into ut
42:09and divided i have known of only ut's becoming states not the other way around but this is
42:18injustice to the people of jammu and kashmir you know dr abdullah the government in its response
42:24in the home minister in particular has also pointed out that this government has avenged
42:29phil gum the terrorists responsible for it including the mastermind have been killed they've also
42:35targeted the terror bases in pakistan they've uh killed them uh in uh uh in dachigam near near
42:41srinagar to that extent will you at least give the government some credit that they have taken a
42:46strong step towards terrorism in a manner that previous governments perhaps did not
42:56every government has taken strong steps against terrorism always no government of india has ever
43:06bowed down before terrorists let's make that clear
43:09but but dr we have never bowed before terrorists and we will never bow before terrorists but the
43:18but it then comes back to it that after this debate in parliament the fiery nature of it
43:24where is that all party consensus on the way forward how do we go move forward is the big
43:30question that i asked part of the problem that i saw as an analyst on the debate was there was too
43:35much of talk of the past what happened in 2008 2006 2003 even stretching back to jawalla nehru
43:41question is how do we move forward dr abdullah someone who's seen politics in the valley for half a
43:46century you've seen the worst of terrorism or militancy in the valley how do you move forward
43:55i think by i look forward by trusting the people you must trust people this is what i told prime minister
44:03when we met him while there was covid that we have to start trusting and the lack of trust must go
44:12we are part of nation as as maharashtra is as rajasthan is as tamil nadu is as bengal is as all these states
44:20are it's a union of states which is called india diverse and yet united can can cross
44:33border terror and statehood go together as long as there is cross-border terror as long as pakistan
44:38continues to pump in terrorists as long as there may be some locals some locals who may be supporting
44:44the terrorists can statehood go together with that in your view you mentioned other states but other
44:50states do not suffer in the way that jammu and kashmir does from cross-border terror
44:54well give us the chance don't don't just sit on it we have fought them before given our lives and
45:06we'll fight them again we are not part of pakistan we are part of india a democratic india and india for
45:15all of us whatever your religion whatever your language whatever your province or state
45:21we are part of the nation and trust us so is that your message to prime minister modi and home
45:29minister shah after this long debate would that be your message start trusting the people of jammu and
45:35kashmir and restore statehood at the earliest if you want to really restore true normalcy after
45:43phil gum is that your message to them i would say the message to the whole india not only to the prime
45:54minister and the home minister but to every indian we have to live together and let's trust each other
46:02that trust factor that trust factor is important and that must be created and not waited for
46:13okay i'm going to leave it there dr abdullah because you've been pretty clear
46:16in where you stand on this issue i hope those in power are listening to you dr faruk abdullah you're
46:23calling for the restoration of statehood at the earliest as a first step in a way towards moving
46:31towards a post pahel gum and i just radeep yes radeep yes i would also like to send message to our
46:41neighbor stop what you are doing it is not going to create conducive atmosphere between india and pakistan
46:53if you want that conducive atmosphere to be give up this tragedies of terrorism if you do not give them
47:05the situation will be worse and suffering will be worse of the people
47:12don't play with it okay let me come okay stop let me leave it there you said you've sent a strong
47:20message to islamabad you've reached out to new delhi dr faruk abdullah for joining me there from srinagar
47:27thank you very much
47:32god bless you and may your program continue to help us out
47:37aaruk abdullah there speaking loud and clear statehood for jammu and kashmir is necessary as a
47:47precondition for greater normalcy let's turn to tonight's get real india story now in a shocking
47:53incident of harassment a cargill war veterans family in pune was asked to prove that they are indian citizens
48:00a mob of unidentified men accused them of being illegal immigrants and threatened to label them as
48:07rohingyas from bangladesh they've now registered a police complaint demanding an impartial investigation
48:13om kar wabli has tonight's get real india story from pune
48:28name allah khan for the 1965 war mohammad salim took part in the 1971 war
48:36hakeem uddin sheikh for the 1999 cargill war
48:39war today their family is being hounded to prove citizenship
48:45kargill war veteran nakim uddin's nephew irshad claims a group of people barged into their house
48:52in chandan nagar in pune on july 26th demanding their documents
48:56so
49:03What happened to us?
49:33Inshad claims they were taken to a police station well after midnight.
50:03The incident at Chandanagar on the night of Saturday, Sunday, an offense of unlawful assembly
50:17has been registered against people who had gathered there.
50:22We have assured them that all their grievances would be redressed appropriately.
50:27Their statements afresh is being recorded.
50:30No lady was taken to the police station after sunset.
50:35This has been, this was asked and this has been re-verified from the victim family.
50:40The family displays the identity cards of their uncles who served the Indian Army.
50:46Originally from Pratapgarh in Uttar Pradesh, the family has been settled in Pune since 1960.
50:53Isshad's brother, Naqim Uddin Sheikh and uncle, Naimullah Khan, are now in Pratapgarh.
50:58Isshad's family has demanded a thorough investigation into the incident and questioned the role of police
51:16in allegedly facilitating the mob's actions.
51:18And to think that this is happening in Pune once described as Maharashtra's cultural capital.
51:34Simply unthinkable.
51:35Let's turn from there to our good news today story and it comes from one of my many home states,
51:41the state of Goa, which for most tourists is known for its beaches.
51:44But now, the state has consciously decided to promote ecotourism, taking tourists beyond the beaches.
51:52And slowly but surely, ecotourism might just work for Goa.
51:57Here's a report.
51:58Good news today.
51:59Every year, thousands of tourists head to Goa.
52:12The state which gets visitors from across the globe is India's beach tourism hub.
52:18The Goa government is now casting the net wider with ecotourism projects.
52:28It wants tourists to go beyond the beaches.
52:31We have started ecotourism activities last couple of years.
52:37We have started, we have our bondla cottages.
52:41We have facilities at Pali Waterfall in Sattari.
52:45At Netravali in Sangay.
52:46We have facilities at Dhootsagar also.
52:48So these are the facilities we look after and we are promoting.
52:51Forests and waterfalls like Dhootsagar have been opened up for tourists.
53:04We are looking up to the forest areas.
53:06We are seeing to it that the garbage is taken care of.
53:09Tomorrow, nobody can blame the forest that people went to the waterfalls and somebody drowned or somebody, you know, some mishap happened.
53:16So we keep guides also to take them to the waterfalls and get them safely in the evening.
53:21The expansion of tourism, a key industry in the state, is also aimed at increasing employment opportunities.
53:37Goa tourism is promoting these new destinations through social media.
53:44Bureau Report, India Today.
53:49And here's a tip.
53:50If you have the time, do go when you go to Goa to the Dhootsagar Falls in the monsoon.
53:56Magical experience.
53:58And I hope that many of you will visit one of my home states.
54:02I want to leave you with our image tonight.
54:05An earthquake of magnitude 8.8 on the Richter scale hitting Kamchatka cry in Russia.
54:11The quake, one of the strongest ever, has triggered tsunami alerts across the world.
54:16A ring of fire in an entire region, Russia, Hawaii, Japan, the American western coast, states of Oregon, California, Washington, all hit by it.
54:24China, Taiwan, Philippines, all Indonesia, Chile, Peru, all on high alert.
54:29It's the ring of fire, as it's being called, a video of doctors performing a surgery during that quake has meanwhile got viral.
54:38Panicked sea lions dived into the sea as the quake hit an island just off the shores of the Russian Kamchatka peninsula.
54:47The quake has sent tsunami waves into Japan and Hawaii and beyond, but they are not as strong as they were initially feared.
54:55And most countries have downgraded the alerts.
54:58Much of Japan's eastern seaboard, devastated by a powerful earthquake and tsunami in 2011, was ordered also to evacuate.
55:07Tankers moving out of the Honolulu harbor in Hawaii, coastal residents in Hawaii receiving alerts telling them to get to the ground floor or fourth floor above buildings.
55:16But those are some of the images that we are getting from the, our image, meanwhile, Nisar satellite launched by ISRO and NASA.
55:26Satellite will provide high resolution, all weather, day and night imaging of Earth.
55:32It's developed at a cost of 1.5 billion dollars.
55:35That's my other image tonight.
55:37From Sri Hari Kota in Andhra Pradesh, once again, India's space revolution is continuing to scale new heights.
55:44That's my final image of the day.
55:47Stay well, stay safe, goodnight, shubhraatri, jai hind, namaskha.
55:51ASLV and beautiful silhouette, brightening the Sri Hari Kota sky.
55:56Here you have seen the 4L40 and 4Booster S139.
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