{"id":995271,"date":"2026-02-27T09:09:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995271"},"modified":"2026-02-27T09:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T04:06:19","slug":"india-israel-conclude-first-round-of-fta-talks-agriculture-upi-in-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/27\/india-israel-conclude-first-round-of-fta-talks-agriculture-upi-in-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"India, Israel conclude first round of FTA talks; agriculture, UPI in focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India and Israel concluded the first round of negotiations for the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on Thursday and established a structured framework for discussions on identified areas to enhance trade and economic cooperation. From agriculture to emerging tech to artificial intelligence, both the countries are exploring sectors for bilateral growth. Both sides agreed to explore linking UPI with Israel\u2019s fast payment system to enhance interoperability and strengthen economic ties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India and Israel concluded the first round of negotiations for the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on Thursday and established a structured framework for discussions on identified areas to enhance trade and economic cooperation. From agriculture to emerging tech to artificial intelligence, both the countries are exploring sectors for bilateral growth. Both sides agreed to explore linking UPI with Israel\u2019s fast payment system to enhance interoperability and strengthen economic ties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}