New Delhi, July 10 -- the formal end to more than two decades of restrictions that had kept Australia's uranium out of India's growing nuclear programme.

The two countries signed an agreement Wednesday allowing Australian uranium exports to India under firm IAEA safeguards, a step both governments described as the cornerstone of a wider strategic realignment. Modi, standing alongside Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at a joint press conference, said the deal would "give our clean energy objectives fresh momentum," framing it as essential to India's declared ambition of generating 100 gigawatts of nuclear power by 2047 - a target that would make it one of the world's largest nuclear energy producers.

The agreement resolves a tension that ...