New Delhi, July 3 -- Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday invited French businesses and investors to deepen engagement with India across artificial intelligence, clean energy, healthcare, digital infrastructure, and financial services, at the India-France Business Roundtable held in Paris.

Sitharaman highlighted that India-France trade has doubled over the past decade and that around 1,000 French companies currently operate in India.

She described the India-France Strategic Partnership as uniquely positioned to drive the next phase of sustainable, resilient, and innovation-led growth amid a rapidly evolving global economy shaped by technological transformation, supply chain diversification, energy transition, and geopol...