{"id":288609,"date":"2025-07-24T18:52:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288609\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T18:52:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:52:18","slug":"ek-ped-maa-ke-naam-takes-root-in-uk-pm-modi-gifts-tree-to-king-charles-iii-sapling-to-be-planted-in-autumn-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288609\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam&#8217; takes root in UK: PM Modi gifts tree to King Charles III; sapling to be planted in autumn | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/122888179.jpg\" alt=\"'Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam' takes root in UK: PM Modi gifts tree to King Charles III; sapling to be planted in autumn\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> NEW DELHI: Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/narendra-modi\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Narendra Modi<\/a> presented a tree sapling to King Charles III during a visit to the monarch\u2019s Sandringham Estate on Thursday, as part of his \u201cEk Ped Maa Ke Naam\u201d initiative promoting environmental consciousness in tribute to mothers.The Buckingham Palace confirmed the meeting in a statement, noting that \u201cduring their time together, His Majesty was given a tree to be planted this Autumn, inspired by the environmental initiative launched by the Prime Minister.\u201dForeign secretary Vikram Misri said the sapling will be planted on the estate during the upcoming planting season. The gifted tree, a Davidia involucrata \u2018Sonoma\u2019, commonly known as the Sonoma dove tree, is an ornamental species admired for its early and abundant flowering. Its distinctive white bracts resemble fluttering handkerchiefs or doves, making it a visual spectacle in late spring.PM Modi and King Charles are known to share a long-standing interest in holistic approaches to environmentalism, with Yoga and Ayurveda expected to have figured in their conversation.The royal audience came after Prime Minister Modi and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer met at Chequers, where the two leaders finalised the much-anticipated India-UK Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) aims to boost bilateral trade and investment.\u201cAt Chequers, PM Keir Starmer and I saw an exhibition which gave a glimpse of the strong economic linkages between India and the UK. With the signing of CETA, these linkages will rise manifold,\u201d PM Modi said.He also met business leaders and participated in a cricket interaction with players from Buckinghamshire Street Cricket Hubs, handing out a signed bat from India\u2019s T20 World Cup-winning team.PM Modi will next travel to the Maldives, where he is the Guest of Honour for the country\u2019s Independence Day celebrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented a tree sapling to King Charles III during a visit to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[1500,7709,2633,22830,7730,7731,107728,107727,107726,10818,730,10816,10817,39247,1760,518,22817,7710,519,5685,107725],"class_list":{"0":"post-288609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-british-royal-family","10":"tag-buckingham-palace","11":"tag-ceta","12":"tag-charles","13":"tag-charles-iii","14":"tag-davidia-involucrata","15":"tag-ek-ped-maa-ke-naam","16":"tag-environmental-initiative","17":"tag-google-news","18":"tag-india","19":"tag-india-news","20":"tag-india-news-today","21":"tag-india-uk-free-trade-agreement","22":"tag-king-charles","23":"tag-king-charles-iii","24":"tag-narendra-modi","25":"tag-royal-families","26":"tag-royal-family","27":"tag-today-news","28":"tag-tree-sapling"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114909724326112987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}