India, Aug. 30 -- New York [US], August 30 (ANI) Weeks after the June phone call in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi clearly conveyed to US President Donald Trump that at no point during Operation Sindoor was there any discussion, on an India-U.S. Trade Deal, or any proposal for a mediation by the U.S. between India and Pakistan, Trump startled India by announcing that imports from the country would be subjected to a tariff of 25 percent, New York Times said in a report on Saturday and noted that he slapped India with an additional 25 percent tariff for buying Russian oil, adding up to a crushing 50 percent.

The report said that PM Modi told President Trump that the US involvement had nothing to do with the ceasefire and this had been ...