UK PM Boris Johnson meets Gautam Adani. (Photo: Twitter@Gautam Adani)UK PM Boris Johnson India Visit Live Updates: Kicking off his two-day visit to India, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrived in Ahmedabad on Thursday morning. On the first day of his tour, Johnson met Adani Group Chairman, Gautam Adani, in Ahmedabad. Sharing a photo of the meeting on Twitter, Adani wrote: “Honoured to host Boris Johnson, the first UK PM to visit Gujarat, at Adani HQ. Delighted to support climate & sustainability agenda with focus on renewables, green H2 & new energy. Will also work with UK companies to co-create defence & aerospace technologies.” He also visited a JCB factory with Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel.
Johnson said he hoped the UK would complete another free trade agreement with India by the end of the year. The UK and Indian businesses are set to announce investments and export deals worth over £1 billion, in areas from software engineering to health. Science and tech collaborations, including a digital health partnership and a joint investment fund for Indian deep-tech and AI start-ups, supported by both the governments; new AI scholarships for Indian students jointly funded by the UK government’s Chevening programme and India’s Adani Group; and a £6 million investment by AI healthcare specialists Qure.ai to open a centre of excellence in the UK are set to be announced.
He began his visit with a roadshow from the Ahmedabad airport to his hotel on Thursday morning. In the city, he will visit the Gandhi Ashram, and later go to Gujarat Biotechnology University, Akshardham temple in Gandhinagar and also a plant of JCB company at Halol near Vadodara city, sources told PTI. He is also expected to hold a closed-door meeting with a “leading businessman from the state”, PTI reported.
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London, Wednesday. (AP)
Some more snaps from UK PM Boris Johnson's visit to Swaminarayan Akshardham Temple in Gandhinagar.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday said his country has already raised the Ukraine war issue with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a diplomatic level, and added that everybody understands that India and Russia shared "very different relationships historically".
Johnson's visit to India comes at a time when India has taken a neutral stand on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and amid the criticism by western countries, especially the US, that India was not taking a clear stance against Russia. --PTI
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits Akshardham Temple in Gandhinagar.
Boris Johnshon visits Gandhi Ashram on Thursday.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits JCB factory at Halol GIDC, Panchmahal, with Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel.
On the first day of his tour, Johnson met Adani Group Chairman, Gautam Adani, in Ahmedabad. Sharing a photo of the meeting on Twitter, Adani wrote: "Honoured to host Boris Johnson, the first UK PM to visit Gujarat, at Adani HQ. Delighted to support climate & sustainability agenda with focus on renewables, green H2 & new energy. Will also work with UK companies to co-create defence & aerospace technologies."
During his first day in India, UK PM Boris Johnson met Adani Group Chairman, Gautam Adani, in Ahmedabad.
India and the UK have shared anxieties about autocricies in the world, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday.
UK PM Boris Johnson said he hoped to complete another trade agreement with India by the end of the year, Reuters reported.
Visiting British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday termed Mahatma Gandhi an "extraordinary man" who mobilized the principles of truth and non-violence to change the world for better.
Johnson became the first prime minister of the UK to visit the Sabarmati Ashram here, the place from where Gandhi led India's struggle for freedom from the British colonial rule for more than a decade. In fact, the Tory politician is also the first British prime minister to visit Gujarat post 1947.
"It is an immense privilege to come to the ashram of this extraordinary man, and to understand how he mobilized such simple principles of truth and non-violence to change the world for better," Johnson wrote in the visitors' book at the Gandhi ashram. (PTI)
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who is on a two-day visit to India, visited the Sabarmati Ashram, also known as Gandhi Ashram, here on Thursday after landing in the country.
The Ashram trust gifted him two books, one of them an unpublished guide for the benefit of those seeking to live in London, penned by Mahatma Gandhi himself.
After arriving at the Ahmedabad airport on Thursday morning, Johnson reached Sabarmati Ashram where he was welcomed by Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and trustee Kartikeya Sarabhai, said the Ashram's spokesperson Virat Kothari. Gandhi had lived at the ashram from 1917 to 1930. (PTI)
Soon after arriving in India for a two-day visit, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted: "It’s fantastic to be in India, the world’s largest democracy. I see vast possibilities for what our great nations can achieve together. Our powerhouse partnership is delivering jobs, growth and opportunity. I look forward to strengthening this partnership in the coming days."
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will announce a raft of commercial agreements and hail a "new era" in bilateral trade and investment ties during his visit to India, the UK High Commission said on Thursday shortly before he landed in Gujarat.
It said the UK and Indian businesses will confirm more than one billion pounds (1 GBP= Rs 99.63) in new investments and export deals in areas from software engineering to health, creating almost 11,000 jobs across the UK. "As I arrive in India today, I see vast possibilities for what our two great nations can achieve together. From next-generation 5G telecoms and AI to new partnerships in health research and renewable energy -- the UK and India are leading the world," Johnson was quoted as saying by the high commission. (PTI)
In a note penned in the visitor's book of the Sabarmati Ashram, UK PM Boris Johnson paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi. He wrote that it was an "immense privilege to come to the Ashram of this extraordinary man".
UK PM Johnson visited Mahatma Gandhi's Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad on Thursday morning, where he tried his hand at the 'Charkha'.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson received a warm welcome soon after he touched down at Ahmedabad airport on Thursday morning. His visit began with a roadhow from the airport to his hotel.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be gifted a copy of the autobiography of Madeleine Slade, better known as Mirabehn. She was the daughter of a British admiral who later went on to become a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrived in Ahmedabad on Thursday morning. Take a look.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday that his long-delayed visit to India will deepen the strategic trade, defence and people-to-people ties between the two countries.
Ahead of Johnson's two-day visit, Downing Street has stressed that the UK would not look to "lecture" India over its neutral stance in the United Nations or its decision to hike Russian oil imports.
The UK has been trying to persuade India to reduce its reliance on Moscow since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24. Addressing the House of Commons for his weekly Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs), Johnson said the trip to Ahmedabad and New Delhi will build on India being invited as a guest country for the G7 Summit hosted by the UK in Cornwall in June last year. (PTI)
As British Prime Minister Boris Johnson lands in Ahmedabad on Thursday for the start of a two-day visit to India, UK and Indian businesses are set to announce investments and export deals worth over £1 billion, in areas from software engineering to health.
Science and tech collaborations, including a digital health partnership and a joint investment fund for Indian deep-tech and AI start-ups, supported by both the governments; new AI scholarships for Indian students jointly funded by the UK government’s Chevening programme and India’s Adani Group; and a £6 million investment by AI healthcare specialists Qure.ai to open a centre of excellence in the UK are set to be announced.
On Friday, Johnson will hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on economic, security and defence collaborations. He is expected to announce commercial agreements, hailing a new era in trade, investment and technology partnership between the two countries. Read more.