India-UK Free Trade Agreement "Biggest Of Them All", Says Boris Johnson
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The UK is signing free trade agreements with Commonwealth countries. The Free Trade Agreement talks with India have a Diwali deadline.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday reiterated the Diwali timeline for a draft India-UK free trade agreement (FTA), declaring that the proposed trade deal with New Delhi would be the biggest yet in the post-Brexit context.
In a statement to mark the start of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in the Rwandan capital of Kigali on Monday, Boris Johnson plugged for the "Commonwealth advantage" which added immense value to all 54-member countries of the organisation.
He pointed out how India, as the largest member of the grouping, will be at the same table as the smallest for CHOGM, indicating the diverse strengths of the Commonwealth.
"The Pacific archipelago of Tuvalu (population of 11,000) will be at the same table as India (population 1.3 billion). Yet for all the differences between us, we are joined by an invisible thread of shared values, history and institutions and of course the English language," Johnson writes in 'The Daily Telegraph' newspaper.
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The Adani Group said that none of its 11 public companies are implicated or accused of any wrongdoing.
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The DMK MPs held a meeting today to discuss what they called the BJP-led Centre's betrayal of the state and its people
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It happened around 11 am when a youth from Sevdha village came on a motorcycle to the Indian Oil petrol pump in Dulhapur village and asked for a refill worth Rs 100, Superintendent of Police Brijesh Kumar Srivastava said.