India textiles to gain duty-free access in EU under proposed FTA, eliminating tariffs across apparel and textile lines.
The India-EU free trade agreement will provide duty-free market access for textiles and clothing to the EU by eliminating tariffs (currently up to 12%) across all apparel and textile tariff lines, expanding export opportunities in yarn, apparel and home textiles, and strengthening MSME scale-up and competitiveness against preferential suppliers.

EU India FTA establishes an assured temporary entry regime and mobility framework for Indian professionals including transferees.
The FTA creates an assured regime and comprehensive mobility framework to enable temporary entry and stay of Indian professionals-including business visitors, intra corporate transferees, contractual suppliers, and independent professionals-and their spouses and dependents, while securing market access and non discriminatory treatment across key services sub sectors.

Overseas Citizenship of India grants life-long multiple-entry visa without political rights; India and EU conclude comprehensive FTA and strategic agenda.
The OCI regime, established by amending the Citizenship Act, 1955, grants eligible persons of Indian origin a life-long, multiple-entry, multi-purpose visa for India but does not confer political rights. India and the European Union announced conclusion of trade negotiations resulting in a comprehensive free trade agreement and a five-year joint comprehensive strategic agenda to deepen cooperation on trade, security, and people-to-people ties.

Canada will diversify trade with a dozen new deals to reduce dependence on the United States.
Mark Carney told President Trump he stood by his Davos condemnation of economic coercion and announced Canada's plan to pursue roughly a dozen new trade deals across four continents within months to diversify away from US dependence, characterising recent tariff changes with China as limited sectoral cuts and setting a goal to double non US exports in the next decade while rejecting claims he had walked back his remarks.

Power supply agreements secure 4,000 MW under DBFOO model with Rs 60,000 crore investment and 2030 supply start.
Agreements procure 4,000 MW under a Design-Build-Finance-Own-Operate model via tariff-based competitive bidding, allocating specified MW to selected developers plus an 800 MW green shoe option, with power supply contracts executed with special purpose vehicles, total project investment commitments of Rs 60,000 crore, and supply commencement scheduled for 2030.

Titagarh Rail and ABB agree technology transfer and local manufacture of propulsion and TCMS for 25 kV driverless metro projects.
Titagarh Rail and ABB India agreed to develop propulsion systems and transfer TCMS technology for driverless high-voltage AC metro applications, including joint design, manufacture, supply, testing, installation supervision and commissioning, with a phased transfer of manufacturing and co production of converters and traction motors to domestic facilities.

India-EU free trade agreement grants over 90% duty-free access for Indian goods and extensive tariff concessions for EU goods.
The document announces the conclusion of a bilateral Free Trade Agreement between India and the European Union under which over 90% of Indian goods will receive duty-free access to the EU and the EU will obtain duty concessions on 93% of its goods in India, establishing broad tariff elimination and preferential treatment to reshape trade flows and commercial relations.

NEET aspirant death: family demands judicial probe amid sexual assault allegations and DNA forensic testing.
The deceased aspirant's family demands a judicial probe led by a sitting judge, alleging police and institutional cover-up and harassment; two non-SIT officers were suspended. The SIT collected DNA samples and sent clothing with detected semen traces for forensic profiling to match against suspects, including an arrested hostel employee, while officials assert the SIT is professionally conducting the ongoing criminal investigation.

India-EU FTA tariff cuts will widen import access and, critics say, harm domestic industry and livelihoods.
The India EU Free Trade Agreement's tariff concessions are criticised as eliminating or sharply reducing duties on over 90% of EU goods, with steep cuts in automobiles, iron and steel, pharmaceuticals, wines and spirits, processed foods and sheep meat; these tariff reductions are identified as the mechanism likely to expand EU exports, increase import competition, harm domestic industries and depress employment, prompting a demand that the full agreement text be placed before Parliament for substantive scrutiny.

India-EU free trade agreement expands market access and mobility for talent across key export and services sectors.
The India-EU free trade agreement secures preferential market access for the majority of Indian exports across multiple goods sectors, promotes MSME and rural participation, and advances integration into global value chains. It includes a services and mobility component granting independent professionals in specified sub sectors and AYUSH practitioners greater ability to provide services in EU markets, and is accompanied by separate security, defence and talent mobility pacts to align trade with strategic cooperation and labour mobility objectives.

India-EU FTA will deepen auto trade but price cuts unlikely until implementation details and qualification criteria are clear.
The India-EU Free Trade Agreement establishes a phased tariff-reduction regime for cars and auto components whose practical effects hinge on the detailed implementation roadmap and qualification criteria; automakers welcome the pact for fostering investment, supply-chain integration and innovation but state that any impact on vehicle pricing is indeterminate until the agreement's fineprint and timelines are available, noting the predominance of locally manufactured 'Made in India' volumes limits near-term price effects.

India EU free trade agreement sealed as state banquet highlights expanded trade, defence cooperation and rules-based global order agenda.
India and the European Union concluded a landmark free trade agreement while announcing an agenda to deepen trade and defence cooperation and to strengthen engagement toward a rules-based global order, framed through state-level diplomatic engagement and signalling commitments to market integration, regulatory alignment and enhanced strategic cooperation.

India EU partnership strengthening trade, security and technology cooperation while advocating reform of multilateral institutions for balance and stability.
The India EU strategic partnership emphasises reforming international institutions to strengthen multilateralism and focuses on concrete instruments: the India EU Free Trade Agreement and a Security and Defence Partnership, together with cooperation on investment, technology transfer, semiconductors, artificial intelligence, education, science and research, and ethical digital governance.

India EU free trade agreement expands preferential market access and complements pacts on defence and talent mobility.
The India EU Free Trade Agreement provides preferential market access to expand export opportunities, immediately benefiting sectors like seafood and agri commodities and supporting MSMEs, women, artisans, youth and professionals. Accompanying pacts on security and defence collaboration and on mobility of Indian talent create a coordinated agenda of economic, strategic and labour mobility measures intended to strengthen trade competitiveness and unlock substantial export potential.

Imported European cars likely to become cheaper as India-EU FTA phases down tariffs and sets a 250,000-unit quota.
The India-EU FTA phases down tariffs on imported European passenger cars from an effective 110 per cent to 10 per cent within a quota of 250,000 CBUs per year, with interim phased rates around 30-35 per cent in some segments, a threshold of about 15,000 for application, reciprocal quota balancing at 2.5:1, exclusion of cars likely to retail below Rs 25 lakh from EU exports, and deferred, segmented duty reductions for EVs protected for the first five years.

India-EU free trade agreement reduces tariffs on nearly all bilateral trade and establishes security and mobility pacts.
A comprehensive Free Trade Agreement was announced reducing tariffs on 99% of Indian exports to the EU and over 97% of EU exports to India, with sectoral benefits identified and subject to legal review before signature. Concurrently, the parties concluded a security and defence partnership and a mobility agreement as part of thirteen pacts and a five year comprehensive strategic agenda to strengthen resilience, reduce strategic dependencies, and uphold a rules-based global order.

Ursula von der Leyen's wardrobe highlighted Indian designers and textile craftsmanship during India-EU trade and diplomatic events.
Ursula von der Leyen's wardrobe during her India visit highlighted Indian design at Republic Day and at events surrounding the India-EU trade agreement, with the Fashion Design Council of India crediting Indian designers and framing the choices as cultural diplomacy that showcased textile craftsmanship during high-level diplomatic engagements.

Rupee rallies 22 paise to 91.68 as US dollar weakness and India EU FTA boost market sentiment, gains capped by oil and import demand.
The rupee recovered 22 paise to close at 91.68 against the US dollar, led by US dollar weakness and the India EU FTA which boosted market sentiment, while gains were limited by rising commodity and crude prices, importer demand and constrained capital inflows.

Parliament will prioritise the President's address and Budget debates while the government resists reopening debate on SIR and VB GRAMG.
The government refused to reopen debate on the VB-G RAM G Act and the SIR exercise for the Budget Session, asserting both had been extensively debated already and must be followed; outstanding concerns may be raised during the Motion of Thanks to the President and Budget debates but not as separate re examinations. Opposition parties sought discussion on electoral roll revision, the replacement employment guarantee law, foreign policy matters, tariffs, social media regulation for minors, and urged committee scrutiny and adequate time for parliamentary debate.

India-EU trade deal grants preferential market access for 99% of Indian exports and mobility for professionals.
The Free Trade Agreement framework secures preferential market access for about 99% of Indian exports across defined sectors and includes provisions to support agricultural exports. Complementary pacts provide regulatory certainty for services and mobility for independent professionals in seventeen subsectors, including pathways for AYUSH practitioners, and are accompanied by security, defence, and implementation agreements to operationalise the strategic partnership.