India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit the UK next week to sign the recent trade deal between the two countries, a government official told reporters in New Delhi.

President Lee Jae Myung's special envoy to India visited the country and met with its Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the foreign ministry said Friday. A team of special envoys led by former Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum visited New Delhi and paid a courtesy call on Modi on Thursday.

India and Britain are expected to seal a long-awaited free trade deal next week, two Indian government sources said, granting Indian textiles and electric vehicles some duty-free access to the UK market and easing British exports of whisky,