India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi was conferred the 'Order of Nile', Egypt's highest civilian honour on Sunday. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi conferred the Indian leader with the rare gesture in a mark of reflection of growing India-Egypt ties.

Watch | India's PM Modi conferred with Egypt's highest civilian honour ‘Order of Nile’

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his state visit to Egypt, met his Egyptian counterpart Mostafa Madbouly and discussed the deepening cooperation across areas like trade and investment, and renewable energy.

PM Modi meets Egyptian counterpart Mostafa Madbouly, discusses trade, investment, renewable energy

Egypt has said India is providing it with a credit line of unspecified value, in the latest moment of bilateral support from New Delhi for Cairo's difficult economic landscape.

India's credit line to boost Egypt's race to economic stability

India's Buddhist traditions left their trail of ascetic uniqueness in ancient Egypt. A statue of Buddha, the reverent ascetic who founded Buddhism, has been discovered in Egypt's seaport of Berenice on the Red Sea, about 900 km south of Cairo and nearly 3800 km west of ancient India's port city of Khambat in the present-day Gujarat state.

India-Egypt ancient ties: Buddha statue's discovery points to deep civilisational links