Inaugurating new Consulate, touring nuclear project in PM Modi’s agenda for last leg of France visit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron airs during the closing league of the Franco-Indian Economic Forum astatine the Quai d’Orsay connected the sidelines of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit successful Paris. (AP)

Today’s Agenda

PM Modi reached Marseille connected Wednesday and paid tributes to Savarkar and highlighted the ties India holds with the metropolis successful its conflict for independence. During his past limb of his sojourn to France, PM Modi is poised to enactment successful programmes which volition deepen the ties betwixt India and France.

Landed successful Marseille. In India’s quest for freedom, this metropolis holds peculiar significance. It was present that the large Veer Savarkar attempted a courageous escape. I besides privation to convey the radical of Marseille and the French activists of that clip who demanded that helium not beryllium handed…

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 11, 2025

PM Modi volition past inaugurate a caller Consulate successful Marseille and aboriginal sojourn the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project, successful which India is simply a subordinate of the consortium of spouse countries including France, to harness vigor for the planetary good, according to PM Modi’s departure statement.

French President Emmanuel Macron walks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi astatine the Grand Palais during the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit successful Paris. (AP Photo)

What All Happened connected Tuesday?

PM Modi co-chaired the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit and the 14th India-France CEOs Forum successful Paris and said that it was much than conscionable a concern event, “it’s a convergence of the brightest minds from India and France.”

President Macron and I reached Marseille a abbreviated portion ago. This sojourn volition witnesser important programmes aimed astatine further connecting India and France. The Indian consulate which is being inaugurated volition deepen people-to-people linkages. I volition besides wage homage to the Indian… pic.twitter.com/RtgGPkJjNg

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 11, 2025

While addressing the AI Summit, PM Modi said “Loss of jobs is AI’s astir feared disruption, but past has shown that enactment does not vanish owed to technology, lone its quality changes. We request to put successful skilling and re-skilling our radical for an AI-driven future.”