TOI Correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday offered the clearest sign that a trade deal with India is now imminent, telling an Asia-Pacific meeting in South Korea that he has “great respect and love” for Prime Minister Narendra Modi , while recycling his increasingly fictionalized version of how he used trade bait to stop an India-Pakistan war. Shorn of his repetitive hyperbole that grows more elaborate with each recitation, Trump signalled that a provisional agreement trade delegations from both sides are reported to have reached has his approval. The deal, which is expected to bring down US tariff on Indian exports from a punitive 50 percent to 15 percent, is said to include, among other elements, New Delhi whittling down purchases of Russian oil whil

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