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Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Tuesday (February 17, 2026) held wide-ranging talks with French President Emmanuel Macron to boost ties successful cardinal sectors specified arsenic trade, defence, vigor and captious technologies.
Mr. Macron landed successful Mumbai aboriginal this morning connected a three-day sojourn to be the AI Impact Summit successful New Delhi and conscionable PM Modi.
After the talks with PM Modi, Mr. Macron volition be a ceremonial to motorboat the India-France Year of Innovation.
His sojourn comes days aft India cleared a long-pending connection to procure 114 Rafale combatant jets nether a government-to-government model with France.
It has been billed arsenic 1 of the world’s biggest subject procurement programmes successful caller years.
It is learnt that shoring up defence practice and enhancing bilateral engagement successful the captious exertion assemblage are precedence areas to instrumentality guardant the ties.
“Welcome to India! India looks guardant to your sojourn and to advancing our bilateral ties to caller heights. I americium assured that our discussions volition further fortify practice crossed sectors and lend to planetary progress,” PM Modi said connected societal media earlier successful the time successful effect to a station by Mr. Macron.
