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indian prime minister narendra modi is headed to france archana, what can you tell us about mr modi'srm as prime minister of india. some of the talks are under way in terms of of some of the and defence aircraft and defence and also, tra nsfer technology transfer for some of these manufacturing some of these in remember, france is india. remember, france is already the largest already the second largest supplier to india in defence supplier to india in this relationship in fact has over the been strengthening over the last few years. where both france wants sell more francs, wants is! sell my; is! and india has been 7 to diversify its wanting to diversify its defence out of and more towards the but what is western countries. but what is— w. ——— ~ ——— — interesting that france would also be it. mgfii weulfiéfis’g be. the ai summit. n 7335777777”??? 7 7” v ”whasbieenhwfir ' has been wanting to get a india has been wanting to get a leg up as as technology and leg up as far as technology and seen as a big lead ai leg up as far as technology and seen as a big lead aland be seen as a big lead i

out what they need to sort out what they would hope to do soon. would hope to do that soon. you, archanad thousands of students took to the streets last week to protest against budget the ex—military chief is hoping to free up around $19 billion trying to achieve. a vat tax rate was expected to be increased this year, but has been put on hold. able to add to the state coffers. which means the re—prioritisation of spending, and usually when this kind of programme is undertaken, there exercise, i think the intention was correct, but i think it needs to be balanced and perhaps a bit more on the year, adding to their list of woes ahead of a possible ipo. according to the financial times, the newspaper reported that the retailer's exemption that has previously benefited the company. higher than its total spending on al and cloud computing alibaba has gained more than $100 billion of market value in 2025 — although shares are down over 2% in monday's trading session. study has showed that more than half of companies that adopted generative ai have seen a jump in revenue by at least 10% over th

last held in march 2024, but a deal couldn't be finalised ahead of the indian election. the bbc�*s archana around? ~ ., c, time around? well, that would be the hepe. _ time around? well, that would be the hope, but _ time around? well, that would be the hope, but we _ time around? well, that would be the hope, but we now- time around? well, that would be the hope, but we now trade take years, even for talks take years; andeven for in the uk, this is the india in the uk,-this is the round of countries do agree that both countries do agree that will are they will dynamics are fast changing, with changing, especially with donald trump's tariff wars and faster shipping global supply chains as well. hence the be to push it time would be to push it this time much further ahead the much further ahead than the earlier ones. uk and both earlier ones. uk and india both have trade relations were £31 and is rising. uk is at india's consumption looking at lndia’s consumption economy and the fast driven economy and the fast paced growth, faster than the rest of the world to benefit them. and that is the

archana, what's the latest and why is a trade agreement so important?sumes significance this would first because this would be the first trade deal with 7 western country india would " 55nd” " ' 7 signed ina have signed and secondly. in a appended by donald world appended by donald trump's of far—reaching trump's threats of far—reaching tariffs, the uk and india tariffs, both the uk and india realised to new realised the need to secure new markets and trade deals with �* countries and hence the when they met on two gentlemen when they met on monday and tuesday and the discussions that went through to show the willingness to seem to show the willingness to get this deal they get this deal through. they that there has been a very said that there has been a very good progress conversations good progress in conversations and that two countries have and that the two countries have the desire to in fact even double their bilateral trade. india's commerce minister also talked the flexibility in talked about the flexibility in india reduce import tariffs. you 5