NEW DELHI — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk during his visit to the U.S. to meet President Donald Trump. The exact nature of the meeting is unclear, although Modi said on X that the two men “discussed various issues, including those he is passionate about such as space, mobility, technology and innovation.”

Modi's visit came as Trump ordered that US trading partners should face reciprocal tariffs - tit-for-tat import taxes to match similar duties already charged by those countries on American exports. He ordered advisers to draft broad new tariffs on US trade partners,

Deal” was the word of the day in Prime Minister Modi’s meeting with US President Trump in Washington, as the two countries laid out a roadmap for military and trade collaboration. Trump announced that the US was expecting to increase weapon sales to India by “many billions” of dollars,