'Jai Ho': PM Modi's car ride with French President Emmanuel Macron in Mumbai

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Tuesday shared a car thrust with French President Emmanuel Macron arsenic the 2 leaders travelled to the India-France Innovation Forum aft holding bilateral and delegation-level talks successful Mumbai. Macron posted a representation of the 2 leaders successful the car with the caption “Jai Ho”.

PM Modi said that aft talks and property statements astatine Lok Bhavan, they were heading to further engagements, including the Innovation Forum. During the visit, India and France elevated their ties to a 'special planetary strategical partnership', pledging to grow practice successful defence, commercialized and captious minerals. Both leaders described the narration arsenic a 'force for planetary stability' amid rising geopolitical uncertainty. Following the talks, the leaders besides virtually inaugurated an assembly enactment successful Karnataka’s Vemagal to manufacture H125 helicopters by Airbus, a determination expected to fortify India’s aerospace manufacturing ecosystem. The 2 sides signed 21 agreements and documents aimed astatine expanding collaboration crossed sectors specified arsenic captious minerals, defence, precocious technology, renewable vigor and healthcare. Key agreements included a defence practice pact and a associated task betwixt Bharat Electronics Ltd and Safran to manufacture Hammer missiles successful India.

Another statement provides for reciprocal deployment of officers betwixt the Indian Army and the French Land Forces.PM Modi hosted Macron for the talks hours aft the French president arrived successful Mumbai for a three-day India visit. “The satellite is going done a play of uncertainty. In specified an environment, the India-France concern is simply a unit for planetary stability. We are combining France’s expertise and India’s scale,” PM Modi said successful his media statement. He described France arsenic 1 of India’s oldest strategical partners and said some sides person infused their narration with 'unprecedented extent and energy'. “Based connected this spot and shared vision, contiguous we are establishing our narration arsenic a ‘special planetary strategical partnership’,” PM Modi said, adding that the concern supports some planetary stableness and progress. Referring to the chopper project, PM Modi said the assembly enactment reflects heavy communal trust. He noted that the chopper tin run astatine utmost altitudes, including adjacent Mount Everest, and volition beryllium exported globally. “In different words, the India-France concern knows nary boundaries; it tin scope from heavy oceans to the tallest mountain,” helium added.