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India and China agree to resume direct flights suspended since 2020, reopen designated border trade points and boost investment in their economies following talks in New Delhi between Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi and Indian officials, including Indian prime minister Narendra Modi.
2025-08-20

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi announces India will lend a US$565 million credit line to the Maldives, gift their armed forces several heavy fighting vehicles, and launch formal talks for a free-trade agreement.
2025-07-25

British prime minister Keir Starmer and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi announce they have signed a bilateral free trade agreement to significantly lower tariffs on 99% of Indian exports into the UK, including textiles, and halve tariffs of British exports into India, including aerospace manufacturing, whiskey, and lamb meat.
2025-05-6

At least four people are killed in Chittagong, Bangladesh, when police open fire at protesters during a demonstration against a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
2021-03-26

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches the world's largest vaccination programme against COVID-19 in India, which plans to vaccinate more than 1.3 billion people. A sanitation worker is the first person to receive the vaccine.
2021-01-16

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi begins the groundwork of the Lord Ram temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, which was the former location of the demolished Babri Masjid.
2020-08-5

Prime Minister Narendra Modi says India plans to turn some railway coaches, which have been idled under the country's stay-at-home order, into isolation wards for patients with coronavirus.
2020-03-28

A bomb explodes outside the Arun III Hydroelectric Power Plant in Tumlingtar, Nepal. No group claimed credit for the attack. The plant was codeveloped with India and is due to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi within weeks.
2018-04-29

150 million workers go on strike in India to oppose Prime Minister Narendra Modi's labour market reforms.
2015-09-2

Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi travels to Bangladesh for the signing of an agreement that dissolves all 162 enclaves in the border region between the two nations and allows thousands of people living in the territories to choose their nationality.
2015-06-6