India and the UK on Thursday announced two defence deals worth over $ 800 million as they took steps for further collaboration in education, clean energy, artificial intelligence and critical minerals.

At the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Mumbai, the leaders also unveiled the agreement to proceed via government-to-government route on an initial supply of Lightweight Multirole Missile (LMM) systems to India.

Major Defence Pacts

In parallel, Graphcore, the British chip designer owned by SoftBank Group Corp, said in a blog post that it will invest £1 billion ($1.3 billion) to build out infrastructure in India over the next decade, including a new research hub. Graphcore, which is based in Bristol, plans to open the research facility

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