♦ External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar addressed the 8th India Ideas Conclave 2024 in Bengaluru on 23 November 2024.

♦ The event was organised by the India Foundation with the theme ‘building Brand Bharat'.

♦ Jaishankar said this last decade has seen a big shift and India is perceived as much easier to do business with now. 

♦ He added that Make In India has moved from being an aspiration to an assertion.

♦ He highlighted that the world truly stands up and takes notice when India talks about the magnitude of its socio economic schemes, or the volumes of digital transactions.