India and Germany sign a Joint Declaration of Intent (JDI) on Telecommunications Cooperation

• Joint Declaration of Intent (JDI) is a non-binding bilateral instrument between India's Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Ministry of Communications, and Germany's Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation (BMDS) to cooperate in telecom and ICT.
• Signed as a key deliverable of the Friedrich Merz (German Federal Chancellor) official visit to India, 12–13 January 2026.
• Relevant for UPSC as a marker of (i) India–Germany strategic partnership, (ii) India's digital diplomacy, and (iii) emerging-tech industrial policy.