External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar | Photo Credit: ANI External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will embark on an official visit to the United Kingdom and Ireland from March 4 to 9, 2025, to bolster India’s strategic and economic engagements with both countries, sources in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said. During his visit to … Read more
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers his statement on COP29 and G20 Summits at the House of Commons in London on November 21, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Free Trade Agreement negotiations with India — expected to significantly boost the estimated GBP 42 billion a year bilateral trade partnership — will be relaunched early … Read more
Anand Menon, Director of the U.K. in a Changing Europe, a think tank, discusses the outcomes of the U.K. elections, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s political future, and how the Labour Party’s foreign policy towards India and China might look if it forms the next U.K. government, in an interview with Sriram Lakshman. What are we … Read more
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi hold a bilateral meeting on November 16, 2022 in Nusa Dua, Indonesia. | Photo Credit: REUTERS India and the U.K. are “very close” to concluding negotiations for a proposed free trade agreement as both sides are working to iron out differences on issues including … Read more
Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves 10 Downing Street in central London on June 28, 2023 on his way to take part in the weekly session of Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons. | Photo Credit: AFP U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that the U.K. wants to strike a trade deal … Read more
Delhi Airport in an advisory to passengers said that flyers arriving from the UK will need to undergo mandatory RT-PCR Covid test in that country as well as in India. (Representative image by Reuters) India-UK flights resumed! The commercial flight service between Delhi and the United Kingdom’s London has resumed after it was suspended by … Read more
Those who are arriving from the UK will have to undergo a ‘mandatory’ Coronavirus test at the airports in India. (Reuters image) India-UK flights suspended due to new strains of Coronavirus traced in the United Kingdom! India has canceled all flights connecting the United Kingdom starting from December 23. The Ministry of Civil Aviation cited … Read more