New Delhi: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer visited India for the first time since taking office last year. He met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Mumbai, India’s financial hub, accompanied by a delegation of British business and cultural leaders.

The main focus of the visit was India’s massive digital ID system, Aadhaar, which has issued more than 1.3 billion IDs. Starmer’s visit came two weeks after he announced plans for the UK’s own digital ID system, the Brit Card. He described Aadhaar as a “massive success” while defending the UK initiative, which has faced criticism from rights groups.

During his visit, he also met Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of Infosys and former head of the Aadhaar project, and sought insights into how India built and maintained the system and what lessons could

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