As Delhi and Washington celebrate a sweeping new trade deal, one awkward question keeps bouncing between ministries: will India really stop buying Russian oil, as Donald Trump claims? Commerce minister Piyush Goyal has unveiled headline numbers—$500 billion in US energy, aircraft, tech and metals over five years, plus big tariff cuts on American goods—while insisting Indian agriculture is “totally protected.” Yet on the Russia point he pointed to MEA, just as Jaishankar had pointed back to him.
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