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Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Thursday (October 9, 2025) held wide-ranging talks with his British counterpart Keir Starmer, broadly focusing connected boosting the India-UK ties successful areas of trade, defence and information and captious technology.
The British leader, accompanied by a delegation of 125 of the U.K.'s astir salient concern leaders, entrepreneurs and educationists, landed successful Mumbai connected Wednesday greeting connected a two-day visit.
U.K. PM Starmer successful India LIVE updates - October 9, 2025
Mr. Starmer's sojourn to India came two-and-a-half months aft the 2 countries inked a landmark escaped commercialized pact that volition summation marketplace access, chopped tariffs and is expected to effect successful doubling the bilateral commercialized by 2030.
The commercialized woody was firmed up during PM Modi's sojourn to London successful July.
In his remarks connected Wednesday, Mr. Starmer said the commercialized woody is simply a "launchpad" for two-way growth, with India acceptable to beryllium the 3rd biggest planetary system by 2028.
MUMBAI, INDIA - OCTOBER 9: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is greeted by Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, connected his accomplishment astatine Raj Bhavan connected October 9, 2025 successful Mumbai, India. Leon Neal/Pool via REUTERS | Photo Credit: Leon Neal
"We signed a large commercialized woody with India successful July — the champion secured by immoderate state — but the communicative doesn't halt there," helium said.
"It's not conscionable a portion of paper, it's a launchpad for growth. With India acceptable to beryllium the 3rd biggest system successful the satellite by 2028, and commercialized with them astir to go quicker and cheaper, the opportunities waiting to beryllium seized are unparalleled," helium said.
In the talks, the Indian broadside is besides expected to emblem its concerns implicit activities of definite pro-Khalistan elements from British ungraded arsenic good arsenic transportation for extradition of a fig of billionaire fugitives, including Vijay Mallya and Nirav Modi, from the U.K. to India.
