New Delhi, June 14 -- In a significant push to elevate the Indo-French strategic alliance, Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal inaugurated Bharat Innovates 2026 in Nice, France, this Sunday.

Goyal made a direct pitch for deeper collaboration between France and India and said, "To our French partners, I urge you to use this opportunity to build meaningful partnerships. And I would invite our French friends to visit India, invest in India, design in India, innovate in India, and manufacture in India, both for the large domestic market and export from India to the rest of the world."

Against a backdrop of global geopolitical volatility and rapid technological advancement, the event serves as a platform to showcase India's ...