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Topic: Keir Starmer

24 July, 2025: India-UK sign landmark trade deal & other news of the day

India-UK sign landmark FTA The India-UK free trade agreement (FTA) will significantly improve market access and boost bilateral trade by around USD 34 billion annually,...

Defence, tech, education—Modi’s visit will boost India-UK ties

Given the immediate challenges on India’s borders, cooperation in the defence sector with partners such as the UK has achieved greater importance.

India, UK to sign free trade deal easing tariffs on whisky, cars, EVs, and textiles

Indian PM Modi's fourth UK visit since 2014 will include talks with PM Keir Starmer on trade, energy, security, health, education, and meetings with business leaders.

King Charles to host Trump in September for his second UK state visit

The US president will be the first elected political leader in modern times to be hosted for two state visits by a British monarch. Visit will take place from 17 to 19 September.

UK’s PM Starmer to meet US President Trump later this month in Scotland

Trump & Starmer recently signed a trade deal on the sidelines of a G7 meeting that formally lowered some U.S. tariffs on imports from Britain.

Zelenskyy meets King Charles III on UK visit to discuss Ukraine’s defence

At Windsor Castle, the Ukrainian President met the British monarch during what was their 3rd meeting this year before his meeting with UK PM Starmer to garner support for Ukraine.

‘Iran should return to table’, UK PM Starmer urges de-escalation in calls with Jordan, Oman

A Downing Street spokesperson said that Starmer agreed with the 'grave threat' Iran's nuclear programme could pose & urged Iran to return to the negotiating table.

‘Not racist to probe ethnicity’. What UK report says on ‘Asian & British Pakistani grooming gangs’

Allegations of girls being 'groomed' for sexual abuse had been circulating in UK for years. Louise Casey's report says authorities 'shied away’ from recording offenders' ethnicity.

UK PM Keir Starmer asks National Crime Agency to investigate grooming gang cases

The scandal, in which gangs of mostly Pakistani men groomed & raped young girls more than a decade ago, returned to political agenda after Elon Musk criticised the government.

UK’s Labour Party wins Scottish by-election after bitter campaigns, defeats SNP & Reform UK

PM Keir Starmer’s Labour secured a surprise victory as voters rallied around popular local candidate Davy Russell, winning 8,559 votes in the election for the Scottish parliament.

On Camera

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.