India's association with the G7 group of industrialized democracies underlines its strategic importance for the United States and its allies at a time of growing geopolitical pola

India is the fifth largest economy in the world, effectively the most populous country in the world, central to, at the heart of those supply chains’

Khalistani extremists in Canada protested Prime Minister Modi’s G7 invite by chanting pro-Khalistan and anti-Modi slogans. This comes amid improving India-Canada ties under new PM Mark Carney, who defended India’s role at the summit.