Insights and Stories of Manoj Kumar

India and US making progress towards trade deal, officials say

Mar. 31, 2025 at 11:18 am CDT

Indian and U.S. officials discussed trade issues including the reduction of tariffs and easing of non-tariff barriers, making progress towards a bilateral trade agreement during several days of talks in New Delhi, they said on Saturday.

India offers US tariff cuts on farm imports, eyes trade success, government sources say

Mar. 28, 2025 at 10:28 am CDT

By Manoj Kumar Reuters

India gears up for a potential trade deal as Trump targets China, say government sources

Dec. 19, 2024 at 10:16 am CST

By Manoj Kumar Reuters

Indian farmers ride caravan of tractors into capitol ahead of Republic Day

Jan. 25, 2021 at 2:48 pm CST

By Manoj Kumar

India’s top court orders stay on farm laws that riled growers

Jan. 14, 2021 at 12:25 am CST

By Manoj Kumar Suchitra Mohanty

Farmers protest across India against Modi’s farm market reforms

Dec. 8, 2020 at 6:12 pm CST

New Delhi/Mumbai | Reuters — Farmers’ protests against new laws liberalizing agricultural markets spread across India on Tuesday, as farm organizations called for a nationwide strike after inconclusive talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. In eastern and western states, farmers blocked roads and squatted on railway tracks, delaying hordes […]

By Manoj Kumar Nigam Prusty rajendra-jadhav

Some Indian trader, farmer groups decry Walmart’s Flipkart deal

May. 10, 2018 at 6:40 pm CDT

New Delhi | Reuters — A day after U.S. retail giant Walmart struck its largest deal with a big ticket investment in Indian online marketplace Flipkart, a right-wing Hindu group that fears small traders will suffer staged a protest in New Delhi calling for the deal to be scrapped. Walmart […]

By Aditi Shah Manoj Kumar

India toughs it out in WTO food-stockpiling dispute

Nov. 5, 2014 at 4:01 pm CST

New Delhi/Geneva / Reuters — India defied the world on Wednesday in a row over food stockpiling that has crippled attempts to reach a global trade agreement, raising doubts that backroom talks can reach a compromise before a Group of 20 summit this month. At the end of July, Prime […]

By Manoj Kumar Tom Miles