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India
World's largest rice exporter and a major wheat producer.
PARTICIPATES IN
Global Grain Security
Sets export restrictions that swing global rice and wheat availability.
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Global Water Security
Holding Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance, withholding data and flow
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Construction Sand Scarcity
Largest theater of illegal riverbed extraction and related killings.
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India–Pakistan Crisis
Wielding water leverage and deterrent strikes after cross-border attacks
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RELATIONSHIPS
RECENT CLAIMS MENTIONING THIS ENTITY
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OCP Group reported revenues of MAD 114 billion ($11.4 billion) in 2025, driven by demand from India and the United States.
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India placed the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance following the April 22, 2025 terrorist attack in Pahalgam.
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India inaugurated the 170-mile Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla railway in June 2025, giving Delhi year-round rail connectivity to disputed Kashmir.
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A new secured platform for Kashmir-bound trains opened at Jammu station in April, with re-screening and armed troop deployments.
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Militants killed 26 tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir last year, nearly triggering another India-Pakistan military confrontation.
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India unilaterally revoked Kashmir's limited autonomy in 2019, followed by a communications blackout and detentions of local leaders.
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20,000 metric tons of apples, plus cars and cement, were moved via the new Kashmir railway this year.
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India continues to import urea to meet domestic demand despite existing manufacturing capacity.
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India's Union Cabinet approved the National Investment Policy for Urea-2026 to encourage gas-based urea manufacturing and increase domestic production.
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India has 33 operational urea manufacturing units with a reassessed installed capacity of 269.42 lakh metric tonnes.
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NIPU-2026 introduces a return-on-equity band of 12% minimum to 16% maximum and separates fixed and variable costs.
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India's cabinet approved India Semiconductor Mission 2.0 on July 15, 2026, with an outlay of Rs 1.3 lakh crore.
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India is the only developing country included in the US-led Pax Silica semiconductor supply-chain coalition, per MeitY secretary S Krishnan.
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ISM 2.0 expands India's government support beyond fabrication to semiconductor equipment, materials, chemicals and advanced packaging.