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Rishi Sunak's visit to the Akshardham temple. Sunak, who is in India along with his wife Akshata Murthy to attend the two-day G20 Summit, will visit the Akshardham temple on Sunday morning.

Narendra Modi met UK PM Rishi Sunak on Saturday, during the latter’s first visit to India, on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in New Delhi. This was Sunak’s first visit to India after taking office as Prime Minister in October 2022. “The two leaders noted with satisfaction the progress in diverse areas of bilateral cooperation as per the India-UK Comprehensive Strategic Partnership as well as the Roadmap 2030, particularly in economy, defence and security, technology, green technology and climate change, health and mobility sectors.

Narendra Modi and his British counterpart Rishi Sunak on Saturday agreed to continue to work at pace towards a «landmark» free trade agreement (FTA) during their bilateral meeting on the margins of the G20 Leaders' Summit in New Delhi. A readout from 10 Downing Street of the meeting said that cooperation in the field of defence technology, innovation and some consular issues were among the topics on the agenda of the meeting. Prime Minister Modi is also said to have highlighted the «warm reception» that Sunak has received during his first visit to India as British Prime Minister. «The leaders had a productive conversation about negotiations on a UK-India Free Trade Agreement,» a Downing Street spokesperson said. «The Prime Minister [Sunak] reiterated the UK's ambition to deliver a landmark trade deal which benefits businesses and workers in both countries and grows our trade in both goods and services. They agreed that ministers and negotiating teams would continue to work at pace towards an FTA,» the spokesperson said. Sunak, who arrived here on Friday, held talks with Modi after the first session of the G20 Summit. Earlier, Sunak greeted Modi with a namaste as the latter received him at the venue.

Rishi Sunak on Saturday said that the world is looking to G20 to provide leadership and that the leaders are meeting at a time of enormous challenges. Sunak, who is taking part in G20 Summit in New Delhi, expressed confidence that the leaders will be together able to address the challenges. «15 years ago, #G20 leaders came together for the first time to restore global growth after the financial crisis. We meet at a time of enormous challenges — the world is looking to the G20 once again to provide leadership.

Rishi Sunak has said that there is progress in talks between India and Britain on a free trade agreement, but he «won't rush» into the trade deal, according to a report by BBC. Sunak is here to attend the G20 Summit on September 9-10. The remarks assume significance as the 12th round of talks concluded last month between the officials of the two countries.

Rishi Sunak expressed his hope that he will find time to visit a temple, in India, during his stay for the G20 Summit. Sunak said that he has 'enormous respect' for PM Modi and said that he is keen to support him in making G20 an enormous success. He also spoke about celebrating 'Raksha Bandhan'. Speaking exclusively to ANI, Rishi Sunak said, «I am a proud Hindu. That's how I was raised, that's how I am.

trade deal, but it's not a given. These things are a lot of work and a lot of time. We need to end up with something that works genuinely for both sides," Mirror quoted him as saying while enroute to India.

Rishi Sunak said on Friday that it was not his place to tell India what position it should take on Russia's war in Ukraine, in an interview to news agency ANI. «It's not for me to tell India what positions to take on international issues, but I know India rightly cares about the international rule of law, the UN Charter and respect for territorial integrity,» Sunak said when asked about India's stance. India has avoided blaming Moscow for the war and has called for a solution through dialogue and diplomacy.

trade deal between India and the UK, because both of us think that would be a good thing and both of us need to make sure it works for our two countries. And at forums like this, I'm very keen to support Prime Minister Modi in making sure that this G20 is an enormous success for India, which I know it will be...". The British Prime Minister spoke on the UK-India Free Trade Agreement and said both countries are hoping to conclude a mutually beneficial deal.

labour market for Indian workers. However India's High Commissioner to Britain Vikram Doriaswamy said that the notion India wanted more visas had been in the British press but not in Indian media.

G20 major economies are gathering in New Delhi, led by India, to tackle pressing global issues amidst a divisive geopolitical climate due to the Ukraine conflict. India has gone to great lengths, employing drones, murals, and large langur cutouts to enhance security and logistics for the event.

Rishi Sunak has given the go-ahead for his officials to finalise a deal allowing Britain to re-join the European Union's Horizon scientific research program, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. Under a trade agreement signed at the end of 2020, Britain had negotiated access to a range of science and innovation programmes, including Horizon — a 95.5 billion euro ($97 billion) programme that offers research grants and projects. But it was locked out of Horizon as a result of a tit-for-tat dispute over how the Brexit agreement was being implemented. London and Brussels settled their dispute over post-Brexit trade rules governing Northern Ireland in February, and the UK has since been negotiating with the EU over rejoining Horizon. The report, which cited unnamed sources familiar with the matter, said a deal could be announced as soon as this week, as only minor details remained to be ironed out. Britain's science ministry was not immediately available for comment.

India's diversity and its extraordinary successes means it is the «right country» at the «right time» to hold the G20 presidency, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday, as he hailed Narendra Modi's leadership over the last year, noting that India's presidency of the bloc came when the world is facing innumerable challenges. In an exclusive interview to PTI just days ahead of the G20 summit in Delhi on September 9-10, Sunak, the first Indian-origin prime minister of Britain, said the relationship between the UK and India will define the future of the two countries, even more than it is defining the present. «This country's scale, diversity and its extraordinary successes means India is the right country at the right time to hold the G20 Presidency.

₹1 crore investment will strengthen our understanding of the threat posed by pro-Khalistan extremism and complement the joint work already underway between the UK and India," he said. "UK citizens enjoy the right to gather lawfully and demonstrate a point of view, but rights to lawful protest do not extend to violent or threatening behaviour," the British prime minister said.

G20 summit, called himself a prod Hindu and noted that he always had a strong connect with India.

Narendra Modi at the G7 Summit in Japan. Both the leaders had discussed progress on a India-UK free trade deal, Sunak's office said.

free trade agreement (FTA) talks with India are «progressing» and Britain will only agree to a pact that works for the whole of the United Kingdom, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told his ministers at a Cabinet meeting in London on Tuesday. Ahead of his first visit to India as UK Prime Minister to attend the G20 World Leaders' Summit in New Delhi later this week, Sunak updated his top team on the ongoing trade talks which have completed 12 rounds of negotiations. The British Indian leader described India as an «indispensable partner» of the UK across all spheres of bilateral cooperation, which he is keen to strengthen further. «He said negotiations around a free trade deal were progressing and that he would only agree an approach which worked for the whole of the UK,» notes a Downing Street readout of the Cabinet meeting. «The Prime Minister said India was an indispensable partner of the UK, both economically and in addressing the global challenges all democracies are facing.

Rishi Sunak on Monday strongly defended his record in government, dubbing allegations that he cut education funding as «completely and utterly wrong» amid an ongoing crisis over a light-weight concrete that is causing school closures in England and Wales. Thousands of pupils face disruption at the start of a new term this week after over 100 schools face full or partial closure because of concerns about reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), which is prone to collapse. A former senior civil servant in the Department for Education (DfE) alleged that it was under Sunak's term as Chancellor that the UK Treasury failed to properly fund school rebuilding schemes. «I think that is completely and utterly wrong.

UK opposition leader Keir Starmer likes to put his Labour Party front and center in his social media messaging. For Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, it's all about himself. The British premier is more than 25 times likelier to use the word «I» than name his own Conservative Party in posts on the social media site X, formerly Twitter, according to research by Bloomberg.

Claire Coutinho, a close aide of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, got a big promotion as his new Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary in a mini reshuffle on Thursday. Coutinho, 38, becomes the second Goan-origin minister after Home Secretary Suella Braverman in the Sunak Cabinet and has a tough brief ahead of her as energy costs have been soaring in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. She has committed herself to work on safeguarding energy security and reducing bills for families struggling with a cost-of-living crisis. In her first Cabinet role, Coutinho replaced Grant Shapps after he was promoted to the post of Defence Secretary following the resignation of Ben Wallace. «I am delighted to have been appointed Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appointed Conservative MP and former energy secretary Grant Shapps as new defence secretary on Thursday following the resignation of Ben Wallace his position earlier today. Wallace was the longest-serving Tory defence secretary since Winston Churchill. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's office announced Shapps's appointment, around an hour after he was seen entering 10 Downing Street, reported AFP.