Emmanuel Macron

During their meetings, the two leaders are scheduled to discuss measures to increase bilateral cooperation in digital sector, defence, trade, clean energy, youth exchanges and relaxation of visa norms for Indian students.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 13 announced that India and France have agreed to use Unified Payments Interface (UPI) payment mechanism and it will begin from the iconic Eiffel Tower.

During the private dinner, Emmanuel Macron bestowed the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, the highest French honour in military or civilian orders, on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 13.

Preliminary charges of voluntary homicide were brought against the police officer accused of killing Nahel, which indicates the investigating magistrates have a strong suspicion of wrongdoing but need to look into the matter.

Hundreds of thousands of people protested across France for the 14th day of demonstrations since January, with some cities seeing angry clashes, but numbers throughout the country were well down on the peak of the movement in March.

Hundreds of people opposed to the new law raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 demonstrated on April 20 in a small town in southern France during a visit by President Emmanuel Macron, while scattered protests were staged elsewhere.

Protesters opposed to President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular plan to raise the retirement age in France marched on April 13 in cities and towns around France in a final show of anger before a decision is taken on whether the measure meets constitutional standards.

President Emmanuel Macron met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing on April 6, as the French leader seeks to dissuade China from supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Bolstered French police forces clashed with demonstrators in numerous cities on March 28 as hundreds of thousands of marchers protested President Emmanuel Macron's unpopular retirement reform. Security was ramped up for the 10th round of protest marches since January after the government warned that some demonstrators intended “to destroy, to injure and to kill."

The Louvre Museum in Paris was closed to the public on March 27 when its workers took part in the wave of French protest strikes against the government's unpopular pension reform plans. The action comes on the eve of another nationwide protest planned for March 28 against the bill — and as Macron holds a meeting with Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne to discuss the way forward. The Louvre is always closed on Tuesday, so staff protested a day earlier.

Mostly small, scattered protests were held in cities around France, some degenerating late on March 20 into violent incidents. In Paris, small groups took to the streets to set fire to piles of trash that have formed due to a strike by garbage collectors in the capital that is in its 16th day.

Air India has signed one of India's biggest aircraft deals to acquire 250 planes from Airbus. The deal was announced in a virtual event attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron.

During his visit to Indonesia's Bali, PM Modi held bilateral meetings with some key heads of states, and discussed ways to boost their ties.

This year's Bastille Day parade was designed to demonstrate France’s commitment to NATO and to European allies touched most closely by Russia's military campaign against Ukraine.

From a rank outsider to France’s first president to win a second term in two decades, Macron's journey has been uncovnentional

French President Emmanuel Macron is set to begin efforts to unite a deeply divided nation after winning re-election on April 24 in a battle against rival Marine Le Pen that saw the far right come its closest yet to taking power. Centrist Macron won around 58.6 percent of the vote in the second-round run-off compared with Le Pen's 41.4 percent, according to official results from the Interior Ministry.

France’s presidential contenders raced on the last day of campaigning on April 22 to drive home why their particular political brand - and not the other’s - is the right choice for voters in one of the world's wealthiest large democracies.

Smaller demonstrations in Lebanon, Turkey and India followed on anti-France protests across the Muslim world last week that were mostly led by Islamist groups after Emmanuel Macron eulogized a French teacher in Paris who was decapitated for showing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in class.

French President Emmanuel Macron is on a four-day visit to India. Take a look at the pictures from his interactions with PM Narendra Modi.