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The time difference between Europe and India, and how a document signed there is accepted here.

Time difference

India Standard Time is five hours and thirty minutes ahead of UTC throughout the year.

  • London and Dublin are five hours and thirty minutes behind Bengaluru, and four hours and thirty minutes behind while summer time is in force there.
  • Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Zurich are four hours and thirty minutes behind Bengaluru, and three hours and thirty minutes behind while summer time is in force there.
  • India does not observe daylight saving time, so the difference changes on the dates Europe changes its clocks.

Documents signed abroad

India is a party to the Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents, 1961, so a public document from another contracting State that carries an apostille issued by the competent authority there is accepted in India without further legalisation. The status table of the Hague Conference lists France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom among the contracting States.

Germany has lodged an objection to India’s accession, so the Convention does not apply between Germany and India.

The calculators on this site state figures in Indian rupees. No conversion into another currency is offered.

Country pages

  • NetherlandsInvestment treaty terminated 1 December 2016.7.19 per cent of investment into India; 55,965 non-resident Indians
  • United KingdomInvestment treaty terminated 23 March 2017. India-United Kingdom Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: in force.4.68 per cent of investment into India; 369,000 non-resident Indians
  • GermanyInvestment treaty terminated 23 March 2017.1.98 per cent of investment into India; 300,000 non-resident Indians
  • FranceInvestment treaty terminated 7 April 2017.1.56 per cent of investment into India; 19,000 non-resident Indians
  • SwitzerlandInvestment treaty terminated 22 March 2017. India-European Free Trade Association (EFTA) Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement: in force.1.44 per cent of investment into India; 17,411 non-resident Indians

Each line states the investment treaty and trade agreement position set out, with its source, on the country page.

Offices

  • Bengaluru

    7th Floor, Raheja Towers, East Wing, 26/27 Mahatma Gandhi Road, Craig Park Layout, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560001

    +91 76765 68787

    India Standard Time, UTC+5:30

  • Mumbai

    Unit No. 4, 3rd Floor, Inspire BKC, Village Kolekalyan, Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra East, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400051

    India Standard Time, UTC+5:30

  • New Delhi

    L29 to L34, First Floor, Connaught Place, New Delhi, Delhi 110001

    India Standard Time, UTC+5:30

Notes

Sources

  1. ConventionHague Conference on Private International Law: status table of the Apostille Convention, 1961hcch.net
  2. Official pageMinistry of External Affairs: Attestation and Apostillemea.gov.in
  3. Official pageGerman Missions in India: information sheet on the verification of Indian documentsindia.diplo.de

Limits of this page

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