PM Modi 5-Nation Tour LIVE Updates: During his Norway visit, the Prime Minister discussed ways to further strengthen bilateral ties with the country in areas like clean energy, trade, sustainability and digitalisation.

PM Modi 5 Nation Tour LIVE Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrapped up his visit to Norway on Tuesday, and is now expected to land in Rome, Italy as part of the last leg of his five nation tour. During his Norway visit, the Prime Minister discussed ways to further strengthen bilateral ties with the country in areas like clean energy, trade, sustainability and digitalisation. PM Modi further held meetings with his counterparts from Sweden, Iceland, Finland and Denmark.

PM Modi 5-Nation Tour LIVE Updates | How journalist’s question for PM Modi turned into flashpoint: What happened in Norway
PM Modi 5-Nation Tour LIVE Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Norway, part of a five-nation tour, produced an unexpected flashpoint when a Norwegian journalist’s attempt to ask him a question spiralled from the media rooms to online virality.

The episode began on Monday, Oslo time, at a joint press statement by PM Modi and his Norwegian counterpart Jonas Gahr Støre in the Norwegian capital. As the two leaders were leaving the venue — after their briefing done in a format that did not include a question-and-answer session — a voice rang out across the room: “Prime Minister Modi, why don’t you take some questions from the freest press in the world?”

The voice belonged to Helle Lyng, a journalist with the local newspaper Dagsavisen, who was part of the media contingent covering the visit.

Neither leader broke stride or responded as they walked out. She followed them right up to the lift, until the doors closed. Lyng had a camera running, and she later posted the video on X. “Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, would not take my question, I was not expecting him to,” she wrote in the caption.

PM Modi 5-Nation Tour LIVE Updates: PM Modi highlights trade partnership, India-EU FTA
PM Modi 5-Nation Tour LIVE Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that a few important initiatives had been taken recently to take India-Nordic relations “to the next level.”

“From October 2025, we have brought Trade and Economic Partnership into effect with Norway, Iceland and other EFTA (European Free Trade Association) nations. Just a few months ago, we signed the India-EU Free Trade Agreement, which also has Denmark, Finland and Sweden as partners,” PM Modi said, according to ANI news agency. He said that with this “ambitious trade agreement”, the “new golden age” for relations between India and Nordic countries would begin.