Besides India, the meeting which will be held on 19 February will be attended by the leaders of the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the US.
Australia, India and South Korea will be invited as guest participants to the June meet, which will be the first in-person Group of Seven leaders summit in two years.
UK PM Johnson had extended an invitation to Modi during a phone call last year when India was chosen alongside South Korea & Australia as guest countries of the multilateral summit.
Trump’s G-7 plan to invite Russia, Australia, India & South Korea, while leaving out China’s Xi Jinping, have set off alarm bells in European capitals.
While US President Trump has expressed a desire to expand the G7 membership to include India and other countries, the proposal will require the approval of all member nations.
On the decision to invite India, Australia, Russia and South Korea to the G7 summit, China said any attempts to seek a 'small circle' against it is 'doomed to fail'.
French president Emmanuel Macron's diplomacy at G7 summit shows that Paris has grabbed the microphone from Berlin and London to speak in the name of the EU.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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