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17 Apr

UK PM to begin India’s visit from Ahmedabad on April 21

New Delhi: The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will visit India this week to "deepen" the long-term partnership amidst the global economic challenges and "threats" from autocratic states. The visit will commence from Ahmedabad on April 21, wherein he will meet with leading businesses and discuss the UK and India's thriving commercial, trade and people links. This will be the first time that a UK Prime Minister would visit Gujarat, India's fifth largest state and the ancestral home of around half of the British-Indian population in the UK. The British Prime Minister will then travel to New Delhi to meet Prime…

17 Apr

Johnson seeks defence, diplomatic, economic cooperation with India, amid political differences

London: Boris Johnson's first visit to India as Britain's Prime Minister -- twice postponed because of Covid -- is at last scheduled on the anvil for April 21-22. "My visit to India", he said, "will deliver on the things that really matter to the people of both our nations - from job creation and economic growth, to energy security and defence." Johnson's is no stranger to India. He was married to a half-Indian barrister -- Marina Wheeler -- for 25 years and undertook trips to India often for family occasions. He also went to India as Mayor of London and the…