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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim met in Kuala Lumpur to solidify a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership that moves beyond traditional trade into the high-stakes worlds of silicon and security.Both nations focused on energy, semiconductors, and defence, including collaboration on solar energy, green hydrogen, and clean tech; strengthening value chains, innovation, and workforce development; regular exercises; defence industry collaboration; and counter-terrorism efforts.

The state, long associated with mining and metals, is seeking to reposition itself as a low-cost, fiscally stable destination for electronics manufacturing, data centres and global capability centres (GCCs), senior officials said at GFTN’s Black Swan Summit.We are a power-surplus state and we have the cheapest power tariff in the country,” Vishal Kumar Dev, Additional Chief Secretary, Electronics and IT, Government of Odisha, told BW Businessworld in an interview on the sidelines of the summit.