The United States has rebuffed India's request for WTO consultations regarding American tariffs on automobiles and auto components, asserting the tariffs were implemented under a national security provision. The US maintains these measures under the essential security exception within global trade regulations, stating they are not safeguard measures subject to WTO's Agreement on Safeguards.
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Arjun Patoliya, 37, tragically died in the AI 171 plane crash, leaving his two young daughters orphaned in London just 18 days after their mother succumbed to cancer. He had traveled to India to fulfill his wife's final wish of having her post-death rituals performed in Gujarat.
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