The US president had hit India with a further 25% tariff over its purchases of Russian oil, arguing it was funding the war in Ukraine.

As the White House tries to curb Moscow's energy income, Vladimir Putin enjoys a warm welcome in India, and promises an "uninterrupted supply" of Russian fuel.

A senior US State Department official will visit India this week as a team of American trade negotiators heads to the country to continue talks on a trade agreement.

The deaths of more than a dozen poll workers amid India's massive voter roll revision exercise have set off a controversy.

India gave Russia's leader a warm welcome in his first visit since his country invaded Ukraine. The visit in part signaled India's defiance of the U.S., which has punished New Delhi for buying Russian oil.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed to expand and diversify trade beyond oil and defence despite Western pressure on New Delhi to scale back its decades-old close ties with Moscow.

The fire in a Goa nightclub, which has claimed 25 lives and left six injured, started on the dance floor. Some of the victims reportedly ran to the kitchen downstairs to escape the blaze. They were trapped there with the club's staff and suffocated to death.