New Delhi: With Washington, D.C., prodding India to raise its energy imports from the United States, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has received another invitation for a visit to White House, almost a year after he turned down one from US President Donald Trump, who was then also hosting Field Marshal Asim Munir of Pakistan.
Trump’s Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, met with Modi in New Delhi on Saturday, discussed the situation in West Asia and conveyed the US president’s invitation to the prime minister.
Rubio emphasised during his meeting with Modi that the US would not let Iran hold the global energy market hostage and affirmed that US energy products had the potential to diversify India’s energy supply, according to a readout issued in Washington, D.C, after the meeting.
Rubio arrived in New Delhi after a stopover in Kolkata, where he, along with his wife, visited the Missionaries of Charity founded by Saint Teresa early on Saturday. He is the third senior official of the Trump Administration to visit India, after Tulsi Gabbard, who just resigned as the US Director of National Intelligence, in March 2025, and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick just three months back.