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Prime Minister Narendra Modi met US President Donald Trump in Washington DC on Friday (February 13), marking their first face-to-face engagement since the latter’s return to the White House.
Trump and Modi warmly greeted each other and shook hands. On meeting Modi, Trump said, "We missed you, we missed you a lot."
The two leaders immediately addressed the media at the White House before holding bilateral talks.
"I appreciate how President Trump always keeps his country first. I do the same - that is something that we have in common," Modi said, to which Trump replied quickly, ''He is doing a great job in India and he (PM Modi) and I share a great friendship and we will continue to build on ties between our nations."
MAGA, and now MIGA!
In an amusing twist, Modi coined MIGA, in response to Trump's favourite catchword (MAGA) after the meeting.
Modi said, "The people of America are well aware of MAGA - Make America Great Again. The people of India are also moving towards Viksit Bharat 2047. In The language of America, it's Make India Great Again - MIGA. When America and India work together, this MAGA plus MIGA becomes a 'mega partnership for prosperity'. Today, we have decided to double our trade by 2030.''
Trump clears Tahawwur Rana's extradition
After bilateral discussions, Trump said the US has agreed to extradite Tahawwur Rana, a key suspect in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, to India. Rana, a prime accused in the 26/11 terror attacks, is being held in a high-security prison in the US. India has been pursuing his extradition for several years. Trump has also said the US will sell F-35 stealth fighter jets to India.
"We are extraditing a highly dangerous individual to India, someone who is implicated in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks," Trump said.
Modi was accompanied by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, India's Ambassador to the US Vinay Mohan Kwatra.
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- 14 Feb 2025 2:22 AM GMT
Who is Tahawwur Rana, 26/11 plotter, set to be extradited to India?
US President Donald Trump on Thursday announced his government’s decision to extradite 2008 terror attack accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana to India, after holding bilateral talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“We are handing over a dangerous man to India, one who is accused of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks,” Trump said.
Thanking Trump for allowing the extradition, which India has been requesting for a long time, Modi said, "a perpetrator of the Mumbai terror attack is being extradited for his interrogation and trial in India. I thank President Trump for expediting the process."
Rana, a Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman, who is in a high-security prison in Los Angeles, faced a huge setback in August last year when a US court ruled in favour of his extradition to India for his role in the Mumbai terror attack carried out by Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists.
Rana is known to be associated with Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist David Coleman Headley, one of the main conspirators of the terror incident that hit India's financial hub in 2008.
Rana, a Pakistani national, was tried in a US district court on charges related to his support for a terrorist organisation that carried out large-scale terrorist attacks in Mumbai. A jury convicted Rana of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organisation and conspiring to provide material support to a foiled plot to carry out terrorist attacks in Denmark.
However, the jury acquitted Rana of conspiring to provide material support to terrorism-related to the attacks in India. After Rana served seven years in prison for those convictions and upon his compassionate release, India issued a request for his extradition to try him for his alleged participation in the Mumbai attacks.
A total of 166 people, including six Americans, were killed in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks in which 10 Pakistani terrorists laid a more than 60-hour siege, attacking and killing people at iconic and vital locations in Mumbai.
- 14 Feb 2025 2:01 AM GMT
MEA briefing on Modi-Trump meet
#WATCH | Washington, DC: Secretary Vikram Misri says, "The PM just concluded a very substantive and productive visit to the United States at the invitation of President Donald Trump. This is the Prime Minister's first visit to the United States after the inauguration of President… pic.twitter.com/N3ajXyh4Tf
— ANI (@ANI) February 14, 2025 - 14 Feb 2025 1:08 AM GMT
India to get F-35 stealth fighter jets
Trump said the United States will sell F-35 stealth fighter jets to India after meeting Modi.
With this, India will join the elite club of countries with state-of-the-art stealth planes.
''Starting this year, we will increase military sales to India by many billions of dollars. We are also paving the way to provide India with the F-35 stealth fighters ultimately," Trump said.
- 14 Feb 2025 12:41 AM GMT
I would hope that China, India, Russia and US, all of us can get along: Trump
I think we are going to have a very good relationship with China. I got along with President Xi very well until COVID...I think China is a very important player in the world. I think they can help us get this war over with Ukraine and Russia. I look at India, I do see the skirmishes on the border which are quite vicious...If I could be of help, I would love to help...I would hope that China, India, Russia and US, all of us can get along. It's very important...I did speak to President Xi about that (denuclearisation) and I was also getting a very good response...When I come back (to power), the whole world is on fire. So, I have to put out the fires. But after I put out the fires, I am going to meet with China, Russia and we are going to see if we can de-escalate it and bring it down military, especially as it pertains to nuclear: Trump
- 14 Feb 2025 12:40 AM GMT
We have some wonderful deals for India, says Trump
Trump said US has 'some wonderful trade deals' for India though he said (earlier in the day), 'they (India) have the highest tariffs' and 'it is a hard place to do business'.
"We are going to work with India also. We have separate big trade deals to announce soon,'' Trump said while talking about his govt's trade policy.
"We are going to make some wonderful trade deals for India and for the US," Trump said.
- 14 Feb 2025 12:39 AM GMT
I want the bloodshed to stop: Trump on Ukraine-Russia war
Russia has gotten themselves into something that I think they wish they hadn't. If I were President, it would not have happened and it did not happen for four years...under Trump, Russia lost nothing, and Ukraine lost nothing...when you look at Ukraine and the mess that they are in, this has to be ended and stopped. Russia has taken over a pretty big chunk of territory, and they also have said from day one before President Putin that they cannot have Ukraine be a NATO, they said that very strongly. I think that was the cause that started the war...I started from that stamp point. If they can make a better deal, they can do that...I want the bloodshed to stop...negotiation is too early to say what is going to happen. Maybe, Russia will give up a lot: Trump
