Modi Strengthens India-Malaysia Strategic Partnership With Agreements

Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose Malaysia for his first foreign visit of 2026, meeting Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim in Kuala Lumpur and overseeing signing of six MoUs and four documents covering audiovisual co-production, semiconductors, security, healthcare and disaster management. The talks advanced defence, intelligence-sharing, AI and semiconductor cooperation and encouraged local-currency trade, aiming to deepen economic, strategic and people-to-people ties.