| | JUNE 20269Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump instructed their teams to strive for a fair, advantageous, and commercially significant trade agreement as soon as possible.The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) stated this on Thursday, following the first extensive discus-sions between the two leaders in 16 months at the G7 Summit, aimed at revitalizing the troubled bilateral relationsUS Trade Representative Jamie-son Greer will visit India next week to advance discussions on the sug-gested trade agreement.During the meeting, Modi and Trump reiterated their dedication to enhancing the India-US Comprehen-sive Global Strategic Partnership and promoting collaboration in all areas for the mutual advantage of both nations and their citizens, according to the MEA."The leaders expressed particular satisfaction regarding the substantial advancements achieved in negotia-tions for an interim bilateral trade agreement and directed their offi-cials to strive for a balanced, mutual-ly advantageous, and commercially significant agreement as soon as possible," reports indicated.The two parties have already conducted a number of discussions regarding the suggested trade agree-ment. Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis has launched its advanced prostate cancer treatment, Pluvicto, in India. The development comes about four months after the parent company announced its exit from its listed Indian entity. According to Novartis India, Pluvicto is the country's first regulatory-approved radi-oligand therapy for patients with Prostate-Specific Mem-brane Antigen (PSMA)-posi-tive prostate cancer.The precision medicine is designed to target cancer cells while minimizing dam-age to healthy tissues. The company has not disclosed the drug's pricing. Pluvic-to will be made available through selected hospitals and nuclear medicine centers across India under Novartis' collaborative approach to expanding access to radioli-gand therapies. The launch marks a significant advance-ment in cancer treatment op-tions for eligible patients and supports broader adoption of precision oncology. Amazon says that it is largely dependent on on-site charging facilities for its increasing number of electric delivery vehicles in India, while collaborating with partners to en-hance charging and transportation solutions as it advances its sustain-ability objectives.The e-commerce giant based in the US intends to roll out more than 1,000 electric trucks in its In-dian operations within the next five years, in addition to the current fleet of 10,000 electric vehicles. The initiative targets providing deliveries to customers from Am-azon fulfilment centers in a more sustainable manner.In response to inquiries regard-ing the restricted access to public EV charging infrastructure in India, Amazon's Vice President of Global Engineering and Sustain-ability, Andreas Marschner, noted that this issue is not exclusive to India and is present in markets worldwide."The challenge you're describ-ing is actually a challenge every-where," Marschner says, referring to issues around power availability, grid capacity and charging infra-structure.Amazon's EV operations in In-dia are currently supported largely through charging facilities in-stalled at its own delivery stations. "What we have been indexing high so far is mostly on-site charging. It's also the same in India, meaning that we have the ability to charge the vehicles at the delivery stations at the point where deliveries start happening", according to Mar-schner. ACCELERATE TALKS ON MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL TRADE PACTIN ITS ADVANCED-PROSTRATE-CANCER DRUG TO INDIAON OWN CHARGING INFRA FOR EV DELIVERY FLEET IN INDIAINDIA, USNOVARTIS BRINGSAMAZON BETSInnovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying no to all but the most crucial features". -Nandan Nilekani, Non-Executive Chairman, Infosys
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