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Monday, July 28, 2025
TopicUK-India ties

Topic: UK-India ties

Jaishankar meets UK trade minister, welcomes launch of FTA negotiations

The agreement would be a substantial opportunity for both the economies and a significant moment in the bilateral relationship, said India-UK joint media statement.

Jaishankar meets UK counterpart Liz Truss, stresses on infra tie-ups & defence cooperation

UK foreign minister, who is on a two-day visit to India, also held meetings with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav.

UK has issue with India’s CoWin certification, not vaccine. Travel restrictions to remain

Travelling from India to UK is not going to get easier from 4 Oct, despite most Indians receiving Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. Jaishankar meets counterpart, asks for resolution.

UK begins work on free-trade deal with India, aims to double $33bn trade

Britain will do a 14-week consultation on the potential deal with India, hoping to remove high tariffs on whisky, cars and making it easier for its services companies to operate there.

How India & UK finally clinched a deal on sending illegal Indian immigrants home

According to the MoU signed Tuesday, the British government might also resort to 'forced repatriation' on a case-to-case basis if an illegal immigrant refuses to return to India.

UK Carrier Strike Group ready to sail to India to conduct joint military exercises

Led by the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth Carrier — the largest ship ever built by UK Royal Navy — the strike group will sail to India later this year during autumn.

Heathrow Airport refuses to allow extra flights from India, adds country to ‘red list’

The red list status, which is effective from 4 am local time, came amid a spike in Covid cases in India and resulted in PM Boris Johnson cancelling his planned visit to New Delhi.

Britain adds India to Covid travel ‘red list’ after 103 new variant cases found in UK

Inclusion into the 'red list' means anyone who is not a UK or Irish citizen cannot enter the country if they have been in India in the last 10 days.

India, UK likely to take first step towards FTA during Boris Johnson’s visit this month

During their first bilateral meeting, Modi and Johnson are expected to sign an MoU for an ‘early harvest’ deal prior to the Free Trade Agreement.

Suspension of flights to UK could be slightly extended, says Aviation Minister

Hardeep Singh Puri had last week suspended all flights between Britain and India from 23 December to 31 December over the mutated variant of the virus.

On Camera

Dhankhar’s resignation: How Modi-Shah’s ‘capable’ BJP has served another strong message to RSS

One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.

Unclaimed deposits worth Rs 67,000 crore lying in banks, 87% in public sector banks alone, Parliament told

SBI holds Rs 19,239 crore in unclaimed deposits, or 26% of the abandoned money in public banking system. PNB, Canara Bank follow.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.