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India, which recently completed a two-year term as a non-permanent member of the UNSC, has been a vocal proponent of reforms to the 15-member body, arguing that its composition - established in 1945 - no longer reflects current geopolitical dynamics.
It is Prime Minister Modi's first foreign trip after assuming office for a third time this month.
The visit will be watched as a checkup on the health of the German-French relationship that drives EU policymaking, at a time of major challenges for Europe
Some 20 European leaders gathered in Paris on Monday to send Russian President Vladimir Putin a message of European resolve on Ukraine and counter the Kremlin's narrative that Russia is bound to win a war now in its third year.
France will streamline the visa process for former Indian students, making it easier for them to return, the visiting French President said
The French delegation was received by Governor Kalraj Mishra and Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma at the airport.
More than three years before the end of his term, Macron is trying to bring in fresh faces and ideas after appointing a new centrist government last week led by France's youngest-ever prime minister.
The move will not necessarily lead to any major political shift, but signals a desire for Macron to try to move beyond last year's unpopular pension and immigration reforms and improve his centrist party's chances in the June EU ballot.
India had invited US President Joe Biden to grace the occasion but he expressed inability to travel to New Delhi in January.
Macron maintained that social media platforms such as Snapchat and TikTok played a 'considerable role' in fueling copycat acts of violence during this week's unrest.
On Saturday, the two leaders had a 45-minute meeting at the G7. The two looked relaxed and Macron appeared to ask Meloni about the floods which hit the north of her country this week.
Macron said "this changes were needed to guarantee everyone's pension," after he enacted the pension law on Saturday.
Macron canoodled with Xi across China, sipped tea, spoke of world peace, and sold 160 Airbus airplanes. But nothing substantive was achieved regarding the Ukraine war, other than stale Chinese state-speak.
"We can't take the risk of seeing 175 hours of parliamentary debate come to nothing," Prime Minister Elizabeth Borne told MPs.
With the purchase of the Airbus planes, Air India has signalled continuity for its full-service arm.
Scholz flew into the French capital for a hastily scheduled working lunch to find common ground on differences shaking Europe's two powerhouses after the French leader cancelled a joint cabinet meeting.
France should, in theory, be a poster child for the kind of loose spending that has markets panicking over deficits. It emerged from Covid-19 with a debt-to-GDP ratio of 113% and a budget deficit of 7%, higher than the euro-area average, having pulled out the stops to protect jobs.
Macron and Scholz will have a working lunch at the Elysee presidential palace, during which they will discuss the situation in Ukraine.
The nearly hour-long private audience was Francis third with Macron since becoming pontiff.
The Elysee said Macron had told the Russian leader in a call that "the Russian occupation was the reason for the risks" facing the largest nuclear power plant in Europe which has been a focal point of fighting in recent weeks, raising concerns of a potential nuclear incident.
Macron, who tried tirelessly but unsuccessfully to prevent the invasion and long vaunted the importance of dialogue with Putin, has grown increasingly critical of the Russian president as the war bears on.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was on a visit to Germany to attend G7 Summit, presented its leaders with various gifts displaying India’s rich art and craft, especially those related to Uttar Pradesh’s one district one product scheme.
Macron, who wants to push up the retirement age, pursue his pro-business agenda and further European Union integration, won a second term in April.
Ukraine rebuked French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday for saying it was important not to "humiliate" Russia, a position Ukrainian foreign minister Dmitro Kuleba said "can only humiliate France".
French President Emmanuel Macron said it is vital that Russia is not humiliated so that when the fighting stops in Ukraine a diplomatic solution can be found, adding that he believed Paris would play a mediating role to end the conflict.
