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Amen & Thank you @VangelisVNZ

On the sidelines of the India–New Zealand Business Forum, ASSOCHAM signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the India–New Zealand Business Council (INZBC), marking an important step towards operationalising the opportunities emerging from the India–New Zealand Free Trade Agreement. The MoU establishes a structured framework to facilitate and formalise industry-led initiatives, enabling closer collaboration between businesses across both countries. The collaboration reflects a shared commitment to building a more connected, resilient, and future-ready economic relationship between India and New Zealand. #ASSOCHAM #IndiaNewZealand #MoU #GlobalPartnerships #FTA #EconomicCooperation #ViksitBharat #IndiaNZFTA @MEAIndia @CimGOI @DoC_GoI @PiyushGoyal @DPIITGoI @IndiainNZ @NZinIndia @EdwinPaul @ASSOCHAMSG @DeeptiSayana

#NZINDIAFTA A historic day in the NZ India relationship today. FTA has been signed & INZBC looks forward to strengthening businesses across the 2 countries. Our sincere congratulations to negotiators on their efforts. @chrisluxonmp @toddmcclaymp @nzindmgt @EdwinPaul @bakshiks

Yes indeed it is a Dawn of a new era. #NZIndiaFTA Been 16 long years to come to this point. Thanks @toddmcclaymp @chrisluxonmp @VangelisVNZ @nebuer42 @samirsaran @michelappleton @SuzJessep @AntoniaWatsonNZ @EdwinPaul @BhavDhillonnz @SameerHandaNZ @chawlabharat18 @bakshiks

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#INZBC welcomes the decision to sign the FTA with India. @chrisluxonmp @toddmcclaymp @PiyushGoyal @IndiainNZ @NZinIndia @EdwinPaul @chawlabharat18 @nzindmgt @bakshiks @VangelisVNZ @NathanGuyOtaki @ExportWgtn @BusNZ_Advocacy @BusinessNZ @KatherineRichNZ beehive.govt.nz/release/legal-…

When a computer tracks the Indian classical dancer in this video, it picks up perfect circles, triangles, and curves in every movement. There are exactly 108 of them. All 108 were written into a manual over 2,000 years ago. That manual is the Natya Shastra. Six thousand verses, written somewhere around 200 BCE. It describes 108 specific dance movements for Bharatanatyam, one of the oldest dance forms in India. Each movement spells out three things: where your hands go, what angle your body holds, and the exact path your legs trace. Roughly 150 step combinations grow out of those 108 base movements. A trained dancer spends years learning 70 to 80 of them. Watch the dancer's legs in the video. The bent-knee squat creates a diamond shape. Palms together make a triangle. When researchers plotted these positions in three dimensions this year, they found the moving body carves out twisted spirals and bowl-shaped curves, the kind of shapes you see in an engineering textbook, not a dance studio. Every limb holds a specific angle and moves a measured distance. The rhythm is math too. A 7-beat song gets filled with dance steps of 3 and 4. Scale that to 35 beats and the groups of 3 and 4 repeat five times. Choreographers work out these splits in their heads while performing live. All 108 movements are also carved into the stone walls of a 12th-century temple in Tamil Nadu called Chidambaram, many panels still carrying the original Sanskrit description next to them. A choreography textbook in granite, still legible after 900 years. A 2013 study put 25 people on a walkway rigged with motion-capture cameras. Every human stride has two parts: when your foot is on the ground and when it swings forward. The ratio between those two parts came out to 1.620. The golden ratio is 1.618. Your foot lifts off at 61.8% of every step you take, and it has done this your entire life. A Bharatanatyam dancer takes that same built-in proportion and amplifies it across 108 movements, each one tracing shapes that were set down in writing over 2,000 years before the tracking software in this video existed.

@StephenJacobi @inzbc @FranOSullivan @nzherald @nzindmgt @GMortonNZ @IndiainNZ @MuanpuiiSaiawi @NZinIndia @FieoHq @RajeshAgrawal94 @chrisluxonmp @toddmcclaymp @chrishipkins @DamienOConnorMP Amen

@inzbc @FranOSullivan @nzherald @EdwinPaul @nzindmgt @GMortonNZ @IndiainNZ @MuanpuiiSaiawi @NZinIndia @FieoHq @RajeshAgrawal94 @chrisluxonmp @toddmcclaymp Quite right - we have a lot to gain and little to lose, there won’t be another chance: the time is now to secure this FTA @chrishipkins @DamienOConnorMP

India NZ FTA is a must have, not a nice to have. Miss this boat & NZ exporters lose a decade @FranOSullivan via @nzherald nzherald.co.nz/business/why-b… @EdwinPaul @nzindmgt @GMortonNZ @IndiainNZ @MuanpuiiSaiawi @NZinIndia @FieoHq @RajeshAgrawal94 @chrisluxonmp @toddmcclaymp

#INZBC helping create more opportunities for 🇮🇳 🇳🇿 businesses with inking a strategic relationship with @FieoHq & AIPMA in Mumbai. We look forward to converting these into opportunities @MuanpuiiSaiawi @DoC_GoI @nzindmgt @EdwinPaul @IndiainNZ @NZinIndia @IndiaInAuckland @NZTEnews

In Aotearoa New Zealand our kids are taught to say thank you and please to even regular bus drivers. “Thank you Driver” is such a common phrase you hear every day in all the buses.

🌍🤝 Strengthening Global Trade Partnerships! 🇮🇳🇳🇿 FIEO, in collaboration with AIPMA, successfully hosted an International Reverse Buyer-Seller Meet during PLASTIWORLD 2026 (March 23-25, 2026) at the Jio World Convention Centre,📍Mumbai. ✨ A key highlight of Day 3 (25th March 2026) was the signing of a landmark MoU between FIEO & India New Zealand Business Council (INZBC), paving the way for enhanced trade collaboration between India and New Zealand. 👥 The ceremony was graced by esteemed dignitaries including: 🔹 Mr Ravikant Kapur, Vice President, FIEO 🔹 Dr Ajay Sahai, Director General & CEO, FIEO 🔹 Mr Khalid Khan, Past Vice President, FIEO 🔹 Mr Edwin Paul, Chair, INZBC 🔹Mr Mrigank Gupta, MC Member, FIEO and 🔹 Senior officials from FIEO, AIPMA & INZBC among others 📸 Glimpses from the MoU Signing Ceremony: ✨ Leadership coming together to foster global partnerships ✨ Key stakeholders driving export growth & innovation ✨ Strengthening India’s footprint in international trade #FIEO #Plastiworld2026 #MoUSigning #IndiaNewZealand #GlobalTrade #Exports #TradePartnership #BusinessGrowth #AIPMA #INZBC #MakeInIndia #AtmanirbharBharat #TradeOpportunities 🌐📈 @DoC_GoI @dgftindia @mssidc @CMOMaharashtra @MahaDGIPR @IndiainNZ @NZinIndia @AIPMAINDIA @inzbc @minmsme @startupindia @makeinindia @DEH_DGFT @ODOP_IND @ecgclimited @IndiaEximBank @Plexconcil

Building India NZ tech ties at @indiasoft & @Convergenc Strong day one for partnerships @MuanpuiiSaiawi @EdwinPaul @nzindmgt @chawlabharat18 @NZTechIA @NZTEnews @IndiainNZ @IndiaInAuckland @DoC_GoI @toddmcclaymp @GMortonNZ @valocityglobal @TaitRadio @ExportNZAuckld @BusinessNZ

In a small New Zealand town, someone’s mischievously placed a bench outside my hotel room to stare at these absurdly beautiful hills, breathe an AQI of minus 1 million, and provoke a dangerous thought: why are we chasing, what ever we are chasing?

@Gladly16994573 @naziafarheen15 Nah pronounced “zha”

Go around the globe and find one letter equal to this. I'll wait...

In the light of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between India and New Zealand, Guidance Tamil Nadu met with the India New Zealand Business Council (@inzbc) to strengthen bilateral trade engagement and invite a trade delegation to Chennai. As part of this engagement, a 20 member delegation from New Zealand will visit Chennai in March, spending two days exploring partnership and investment opportunities across key sectors. The visit aims to deepen commercial ties, facilitate B2B interactions, and showcase Tamil Nadu’s strengths as a gateway for New Zealand businesses looking to expand their presence in India. @TRBRajaa @TNIndMin @Paularun #BullishonTN #InvestinTN #JobsforTN #ProductNationTN

#RepublicDay2026 celebrations @IndiainNZ last night. Relationship well summed up & a toast raised to the enduring partnership by IHC @bhushanneeta1 & @GMortonNZ @toddmcclaymp @ChrisPenknz @nzindmgt @EdwinPaul @chawlabharat18 @bakshiks @TimvandeMolenMP @NZinIndia @NZDefenceForce

An important moment for India-New Zealand relations, with a strong push to bilateral trade and investment! My friend PM Christopher Luxon and I had a very good conversation a short while ago following the conclusion of the landmark India-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement. Concluded in just nine months, this historic milestone reflects a strong political will and shared ambition to deepen economic ties between our two countries. This FTA ensures: Enhanced market access Deeper investment flows Numerous opportunities for innovators, entrepreneurs, farmers, MSMEs, students and youth. @chrisluxonmp pib.gov.in/PressReleseDet…

@kachibhatla @MushtaqBilalPhD Why would you question the question the obvious ? Hard to accept a Muslim Indian tech bro??

@EdwinPaul @MushtaqBilalPhD Yes… that’s Mushtaq’s tweet that says it and that’s why I asked him, as to where he got that detail from?

Tech Bro's Sense of Smell: A Short Story in Three Acts Act I A woman posts a photo holding her English PhD thesis on the politics of smell (or the relationship between smell and power). Tech bros left, right, and center troll her, trash her. Thousands of hateful, sexist comments. This is a complete and utter waste of time and effort and money; literary studies is a fake academic field, they say. Who even needs yet another PhD in English, they ask. Act II A white tech bro sees a photo of a hackathon with a bunch of young Indian men in the foreground. "imagine the smell," he comments. Indian tech bros criticize him. This is racist, they say. We wash ourselves with water after pooping unlike you folks who use dry toilet paper. It's you who smells, they say. They ask the white tech bro to apologize. White tech bro says, this is a harmless joke, all hackathons smell. He says, he will not apologize, and asks others to be charitable with him. Indian tech bros start leaving 1 star reviews for the app the company the white tech bro works at. Act III The white tech bros' boss is an Indian tech bro. The Indian boss fires the white tech bro. Epilogue Now do you see how complex the relationship between smell and power is. That's why smart folks at top universities spend years trying to understand and explain this relationship.

@kachibhatla @MushtaqBilalPhD

@EdwinPaul @MushtaqBilalPhD Clearly stated where? Saoud said he is of Asian descent, I think.