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India's New Government Is Pledging To Make Economic Revival Its Paramount Objective, Just Two Weeks After Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Landslide Election Victory. Addressing Both Houses Of Parliament Monday, President Pranab Mukherjee Acknowledged The Economy Is Passing Through An Extremely Difficult Time And Said Inflation Is Unacceptably High ... (Act  / Muherjee) Asia's Third-Largest Economy Has Grown Less Than Five-Percent Over The Past Two Years, While Inflation Has Been Running At About Nine Percent Annually. The Indian President Also Said The Country Would Also Engage Energetically With Its Neighbors, Including China, With Whom, He Said, India Will Work To Further Develop A Strategic And Cooperative Partership. The Remarks Came After Mr. Modi's Meeting With Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Who Held Talks Sunday And His Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, Mr. Modi Has Invited Chinese President Xi Jinping To Visit Later This Year. The Two Countries Have A Simmering Border Dispute In India's Northeast Arunachal Pradesh State. China Is Also India's Top Trading Partner, Although New Delhi Also Has A Widening Trade Deficit With Beijing. Rajiv Biswas, Chief Economist With Singapore- Based IHS Global Insight, Tells VOA's Victor Beattie Chinese Prtemier Li Keqiang Has Made Improving Relations With India A Top Priority ... (Q&A Beattie / Biswas)

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