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
Arnab Das, Global Market Strategist -EMEA, Invesco, says the UK election was relatively predictable as to the big picture here, which is that power switching from the right to the centre and left. Not much is going to change in the short term. There will be some symbolic changes in taxes here and there, but … 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
A polling station is being decorated as part of the preparations on the eve of Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections, in Indore on November 16, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANI No bar on appointing people as judges for views held as party members: CJI Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud has responded to a query about … Read more
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar with the U.K.’s National Security Adviser Tim Barrow in London. | Photo Credit: PTI External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s visit to London included discussions on Khalistani separatist activity in the U.K., with the newly appointed Home Secretary James Cleverly and the National Security Adviser Tim Barrow. Specifically, Mr Jaishankar has … 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
U.K. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly. File photo | Photo Credit: AP The U.K. government on Wednesday, February 1, 2023, defended the independence of the BBC, and the relationship the U.K. had with India, after supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Modi government in India and the U.K. raised strong objections to a BBC … Read more
The book gives us a lesson in how to win friends and influence people. By (Mrs) Amb Narinder Chauhan, Akbar and I, both batch mates, retired from the Indian Foreign Service in 2020, within one month of each other. Both of us hung up our boots as the world stumbled into the grip of the … Read more
The hub will also build partnerships to develop innovation ‘moonshots’ that can define vaccine delivery over the next decade and beyond. In a step towards strengthening collaboration on tackling Covid-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and British foreign secretary Dominic Raab on Wednesday announced a virtual UK-India vaccines hub which will see experts from India … Read more