What's On Macron's Agenda As He Visits India For Republic Day Parade
NDTV
PM Modi was guest of honour at France's annual Bastille Day celebrations last July, and Emmanuel Macron is set to receive a similar welcome.
President Emmanuel Macron arrives as the guest of honour in India on Thursday with a sumptuous palace feast and colourful military parade, as France eyes lucrative deals with the world's fifth-biggest economy.
Macron will be offered a red carpet welcome by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with dinner in a 19th-century maharaja's palace, and as chief guest at a military march past with massed ranks of tanks, dancing troupes, camel cavalry and a fighter jet fly-past.
The Foreign Ministry says New Delhi and Paris are "strategic partners", while the French presidency says the trip will "consolidate and deepen diplomatic and economic relations".
