military supporting Indian startups to produce chips that will be used by America and its allies to Ford returning to manufacture in India; from both countries working to develop an alternative supply chain for clean energy to space collaboration; from a deeper knowledge partnership in science and technology through additional resources to shaping new regimes on AI and research on quantum; from deeper strategic collaboration through a defence industrial cooperation roadmap to getting American and Indian private sector and academia to work together in defence innovation; from collaborating in third countries through American financing for Indian 

Biden was the one who invested the weight of the White House to develop synergies with this Indian aspiration. The pandemic had made the US and the rest of the world realise the perils of dependence on a single geography, China, and had brought home the need to diversify supply chains — India was a natural destination. The rise of new technologies had made the US realise that retaining its edge required collaboration with players such as India which brought talent, scale, data, and an entirely new perspective because of its own history to the table. And managing America’s relative decline while shaping what came next required burden-sharing militarily. But merely selling weapons the old way wasn’t going to work, and therefore there was a need to allow American capital to go and invest in India in sensitive areas and do the hard work of reshaping US’s own export control restrictions. Aided by a 

 Indo-Pacific, an adversarial approach to China, and attitude to India, Biden elevated the Quad to the level of leaders within two months of taking oath. During the second wave of the pandemic that devastated India, the US was a bit late in responding but respond it did with resources and inputs to save lives and help India overcome the challenge. In September 2021, Biden hosted Modi in the White House with an in-person Quad summit that laid out a radically ambitious agenda, especially on emerging technologies. But the real game-changer was in the summer of 2022 when Biden and Modi decided to get their national security secretariats to begin working on iCET, which then was formally launched in 

Biden understood India’s real dream of becoming an industrial and military manufacturing power. And he opened not just his heart and home, but the doors of the closed US national security and technology establishment (partly, not wholly, of course) to help India and Modi meet this dream. This largely happened under the framework of the initiative on critical and emerging technology (iCET), a framework driven by Biden’s closest aide and NSA Jake Sullivan and Modi’s closest aide and NSA Ajit Doval, whose absence during the visit was conspicuous.

Biden understood India’s real dream of becoming an industrial and military manufacturing power. And he opened not just his heart and home, but the doors of the closed US national security and technology establishment (partly, not wholly, of course) to help India and Modi meet this dream. This largely happened under the framework of the initiative on critical and emerging technology (iCET), a framework driven by Biden’s closest aide and NSA Jake Sullivan and Modi’s closest aide and NSA Ajit Doval, whose absence during the visit was conspicuous

The reason why Modi had done this was because Biden — notwithstanding the ways in which parts of Indian social media mock the 81-year-old veteran for his increasingly visible age-related deficits — has been a transformative president for India-US ties, the most transformative since George W Bush invested his political capital to push through the civil nuclear deal. Modi’s own base has trouble understanding this at times, but India’s top political and bureaucratic leadership is aware of the reality.

Biden who had opened his heart and doors. Modi, too, had come all the way, at the very end of Biden’s term, to the President’s hometown, when the political returns from such a visit are limited, and swapped the opportunity to host the Quad summit with the US because Biden had made a request.

When PM Narendra Modi met President Joe Biden at the latter’s personal lake house in Wilmington on Saturday, Modi told Biden, according to foreign secretary Vikram Misri, that he had opened the doors of his home after having opened his heart to India. It was a special moment, a farewell of sorts, and Modi profusely thanked Biden.

Under Biden, America appeared to finally understand what India wanted — the trifecta of technological-industrial-military manufacturing base.

However, the incident near Ratlam in MP rang the alarm bells . Officers from NIA , the Army, anti-terrorism squad, railways and police inspected the site. “While it seems this was done without reason, an inquiry is being conducted by RPF,” said CPRO