New Delhi, Feb. 17 -- Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman held talks with Norway's Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg in Oslo, with both sides agreeing to deepen bilateral economic cooperation by leveraging the India-EFTA Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA).

According to a statement by the Ministry of Finance on social media platform X, the two leaders discussed expanding collaboration in priority sectors including renewable energy, particularly solar power, rare earth processing, and carbon capture and storage.

Both sides agreed to utilise TEPA to strengthen cooperation in emerging and sustainable domains such as the blue economy and green economy. Discussions also focused on enhancing investments through sovereign wea...