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India must increase spending on research and development to become a global leader

NEW Delhi, India, Dec 26 – India needs not only technological development and brilliance in various sectors ranging from defence to agriculture to manufacturing, but it desperately needs innovations that can safeguard its basic environment — land, water, and air.

With the G20 presidency, India has an opportunity to set the global agenda and be in the limelight for at least a year. But, if it has to be a real leader, say a Vishwaguru, it has to do some heavy lifting for quite a number of years. The real Vishwaguru today is the US, which has retained its global leadership for almost a century since World War I. 

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