US President Trump hails trade deal with India as 'historic'
New York/Washington (PTI): US President Donald Trump has hailed the trade deal with India as “historic” and said America will increase its coal exports dramatically to the country and to others with which it has trade agreements.
“And under our leadership, we're becoming a massive energy exporter. In just the past few months, we've made historic trade deals with Japan, Korea, India and others to increase our coal exports dramatically,” Trump said Wednesday during an event titled ‘Champion of Coal’.
"We're now exporting coal all over the world, and the quality of our coal is supposed to be...the finest anywhere in the world,” he said.
Last week, the US and India announced they have reached a framework for an interim agreement on trade, under which New Delhi will eliminate or reduce tariffs on all American industrial goods, a wide range of food and agricultural products, as well as purchase USD 500 billion of US products over the next five years.
A joint statement issued by the two countries on Friday said they have reached a framework "regarding reciprocal and mutually beneficial trade.”
It said that India “intends to purchase USD 500 billion of US energy products, aircraft and aircraft parts, precious metals, technology products, and coking coal over the next five years.”
It added that the framework reaffirms the countries’ commitment to the broader US-India Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) negotiations, launched by President Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 13, 2025, which will include additional market access commitments and support more resilient supply chains.
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Man, woman found dead in Uttarakhand's Haldwani, police suspect murder
Haldwani (PTI): A man and woman were found dead with their heads crushed in Uttarakhand's Nainital district on Thursday, police said.
According to police, the deceased seemed to be aged between 24 and 25 years, and their heads appeared to have been crushed with a stone.
Upon receiving information about the bodies in Haldwani's Galla Mandi area, Superintendent of Police (City) Manoj Katyal, arrived at the scene with the police force and inspected the scene, they said.
Katyal said that prima facie, it is suspected that they were crushed to death with stones.
Efforts are on to identify the deceased, he said, adding that the forensic team has collected evidence from the scene and the police are also examining CCTV footage.
He added that the case is being investigated from all angles.
