Rush Hour: India and UK sign free trade deal, SC stays 2006 Mumbai blasts acquittal order and more
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India and the United Kingdom has signed a Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement. The free trade agreement will benefit Indian farmers, the micro, small and medium enterprises sector, footwear and jewellery exports, as well as the seafood and engineering goods sectors, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that the trade deal would help British workers in cutting-edge manufacturing, and would also benefit whiskey distillers across Scotland and the service sector in London, Manchester and Leeds.
The free trade agreement was signed by Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and his British counterpart Jonanthan Reynolds during Modi’s visit to the UK.
New Delhi and Britain had announced the agreement in May after more than three years and 14 rounds of negotiations. Read on.
The Supreme Court has stayed a Bombay High Court order acquitting 12 persons accused in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case. However, it said that those who were released following the verdict will not have to go back to jail while the matter is being heard.
The case pertains to the seven bomb blasts in suburban trains on Mumbai’s Western Railway line on July...
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