Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds is leading more than 100 British companies and seven northern mayors on the first major trade mission to India since the two countries’ free trade agreement came into force in July.
Leaders of the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party were detained after scaling barricades to enter Jantar Mantar, a day after Delhi Police said the historic observatory would no longer serve as an official protest site.
Police held the leaders of the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party as their flight landed in Delhi, as authorities shut metro stations and suspended mobile internet to stop a rally demanding the resignation of India’s chief election commissioner.