With new investment pact, India moves to bind its economy to Israel  https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/investment-pact-india-moves-bind-economy-israel
Azad Essa 14 September 2025 Already complicit in Israel's genocide through weapons production and political support, India now deepens its alignment with a new trade deal

And it does appear that a significant goal of this deal is to protect Adani's investments in Haifa Port, as well as an attempt to keep the India Middle East Corridor (IMEC) - an economic corridor linking India to western markets - alive.

The IMEC corridor, underwritten by the US and envisaged as a trade route to counter China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), has been marred with obstacles since Israel's genocide in Gaza began. 

But given the timing of the pact between India and Israel, this is also very much about politics, diplomacy and the projection of strength and trust. 

For more than a decade, India has been the largest buyer of Israeli weapons, and the genocide has not altered the course of this relationship.

Moreover, over the past two years, the two countries have signed deals in water technology, cybersecurity, and agriculture - sectors in which Israel has built entire industries on the back of its occupation of Palestinians.

As of 2024, trade between India and Israel amounted to around $4bn annually.

Ballots, bulldozers, and bombs - The India–Israel alliance https://youtu.be/I_P3uE81D4M 

 Confusion over clearances for Great Nicobar project persists https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tribal-ministry-doesnt-want-to-be-part-of-nicobar-project-case/article70046019.ece
Tribal Affairs Ministry tells Calcutta HC that it should be ‘removed from the list of respondents’ as implementation of law was within the domain of Union Territory; it says NOC was ‘given on the basis of facts given by the islands administration’

Months before the Tribal Affairs Ministry sought a report from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (AN&I) administration on alleged violations of forest rights in the ₹81,000-crore Great Nicobar Islands development and infrastructure project, the Ministry had told a Bench of the Calcutta High Court that it should be dropped as a party in a petition that challenged the project’s clearances on the same grounds.

The petitions, filed by former bureaucrat Meena Gupta, argued that provisions of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) of 2006 were violated in obtaining the consent of the tribespeople to divert about 13,000 hectares of forest land required for the project. 

The petition in the High Court builds on the complaint of the Tribal Council, arguing that no provision of the FRA allows for forest-dwellers to be represented through other persons in Gram Sabha meetings like the Shompen were, an argument that the A&NI administration has countered by saying that India’s official policy on “Aboriginal Tribes” allows for this.

Since these pleadings were filed before the Calcutta High Court, the Additional Solicitor General, representing the respondents, has submitted to the Bench that this case will be argued by the Attorney General of India, since “the stakes involved are very high and the project is of utmost importance”.

 Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi On Judicial Reforms & Justice Delivery  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVM_2cQuHY0 

You know the field of administration of justice is a field full of paradoxes.
In India, we have the highest and the fanciest flights of juristprudence, the most sophisticated, nuanced doctrines. In the bench and in the bar, the best and the brightest in the world. A vibrant pulsating democracy. A dynamic legal system. Among doctrines like PIL, like basic structure, judicial review of a scale and magnitude which would make the judges of Marberry and Madison blush. No other place on planet earth has judicial review of the kind we have here.

And yet the paradox, the sad paradox is that we must hang our head in shame when we turn to the scourge of Aar's backlog the battle of the bulge. The theme of this address
we have been sermonizing, lecturing, seminaring, talking for the last many many decades on this scourge of errors, pendency, delay etc. And yet under our very nose from the 2018 figure of 3.5 crores which if you tell any foreigner is shocking enough from the 2018 figure of 3.3 crores we are now and this is a figure 2 years old July 23 a parliamentary stated figure of 5.02 02 crores.
Under our very noses, we have climbed the wrong hill and achieved the wrong milestone. How long will we blame COVID? How long will we keep on appointing committees, commissions?
My favorite quote about these bodies is what a wag once commented which I love to repeat.
A committee is the group of the unfit appointed by the unwilling to do the
unnecessary. So you can keep on appointing them and getting their reports till the cows come
home. But under your noses the areas have ballooned from 3.3 crores to 5.02
crores.We have to change our entire perspective and follow Gandhi G's dictim. Customer
is king. This system is not for you the potential lawyer, me the current lawyer
or him the judge. This system is for that customer. The litigant Gandhi G called him customer is king.
That perspective has to change. The litigant more often than not that
customer wales. He says,
"Every case resolved promptly is a reaffirmation that the law exists for citizens and not the other way around
that the citizens ex exist for the law. If we do not pull up our socks,
indeed our shoes and legs, we are going to suffer from Igbal's
famous and unforgettable words about the unpardonable sin he said.