WASHINGTON: The invitation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make a state visit to the US comes amid efforts to achieve a quantum leap in bilateral ties, with India’s national security adviser, Ajit Doval, and his US counterpart, Jake Sullivan, tasked with launching a Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET) initiative that officials suggest will top anything the two countries, long prone to mutual distrust, have achieved so far, including the civilian nuclear agreement of 2005.
NASA administrator Bill Nelson will visit India later this year. The factsheet noted that the US has received an application from General Electric (GE) to jointly produce jet engines that could power jet aircraft operated and produced indigenously by India.
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