President Trump greeted the Indian Prime Minister at the White House with a bear hug and called him “a great friend of mine.”

India is acutely aware that trade and immigration issues are a potential double whammy. But it believes it can preserve growing ties.

And we have it," Trump said at a joint news briefing in Washington. Modi said that "in order to ensure India's energy security, we will focus on trade in oil and gas", also pledging to invest more in nuclear energy.