Question : On which date Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered the keynote address via video conferencing at the Invest India Conference in Canada ?
(a)8 October 2020
(b)7 October 2020
(c)6 October 2020
(d)5 October 2020
Answer (a)
Related facts
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday(8 October 2020) virtually delivered the keynote address at the Invest India Conference in Canada.
The forum aims to give Canadian business community a first-hand perspective of the opportunities to invest in India and showcase India as an investment destination. - Canada is home to some of the largest & most experienced infrastructure investors.
- Canadian Pension Funds were the first ones to start investing in India.
India – Canada relation
- India-Canada bilateral ties are driven by thier shared democratic values and many common interests.
- Both are former British colonies and full members of the Commonwealth of Nations, with Canada being home to one of the largest Indian diasporas in the world.
- Despite the warm relationship, trade between Canada and India is less than their potential. India accounts for less than 1% of Canada’s total export and total import in 2014, with bilateral trade of C$5.77 billion in 2014 (compared to more than C$56 billion bilateral trade between China and Canada).
- Following several acts of terrorism in the 20th Century, most prominent of which was the bombing by Sikh separatists of Air India Flight 182 in 1985, Canada and India maintain a bilateral dialogue on anti-terrorism, including an annual meeting of the Canada-India Strategic Dialogue, as well as regular meetings of the aforementioned Canada-India Working Group on Counter-Terrorism.
By — Pankaj Pandey.