Washington DC: US President Donald Trump celebrated Diwali at the White House on Tuesday, extending warm greetings to the people of India and Indian-Americans. During the event, he praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi, calling him a “great person” and a “great friend”, while highlighting US-India ties in trade and regional peace.

“Let me extend our warmest wishes to the people of India. I just spoke to your prime minister today. Had a great conversation. We talked about trade... He is very interested in that. Although we did talk a little while ago about let's have no wars with Pakistan. The fact that trade was involved, I was able to talk about that. And we have no war with Pakistan and India. That was a very, very good thing,” he said, adding that “he (PM Modi) is a great person, and h

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