Indian envoy backs Australian mining amid nickel turmoil

While plans for a Quad leaders' meeting in January had to be shelved after US President Joe Biden could not make the trip to New Delhi, Mr Baglay said India looked forward to hosting the next face-to-face summit. A date has yet to be set. Low-cost nickel Bilaterally, he said the Australia-India Critical Minerals Investment Partnership was a "promising mechanism" to bind the two economies closer together and achieve shared aspirations on the transition to clean energy. He said state-owned Indian miner Khanij Bidesh India Ltd and the Australian government's Critical Minerals Facilitation Office were conducting due diligence on five…