India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, welcomed the US vice-president, JD Vance, to Delhi on Monday for bilateral trade talks aimed at pursuing a deal after the White House announced it would implement 26 per cent tariffs on India.
Vance received a warm welcome and a hug from Modi before he showed the vice-president, his wife Usha — whose parents emigrated to America from south India in the 1970s — and their three children around his official residence. A video released by Modi’s office showed the prime minister giving peacock feathers to Ewan, seven; Vivek, four; and Mirabel, three.
After the meeting Modi’s office said that he was looking forward to President Trump’s visit to India this year and that there had been “significant progress in