India, Feb. 14 -- India and the United States (US) have pledged to catalyse opportunities for military partnership and accelerate commerce and technology for the 21st century to drive transformative change across key pillars of cooperation - defence, investment and trade, energy security, technology and innovation, multilateral cooperation, and people to people connection.

A note detailing the initiatives for accelerating cooperation after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met US President Donald Trump said a new 10-year framework for the US-India major defence partnership in the 21st century will be signed this year. The US would expand defence sales and co-production with India to strengthen interoperability and defence industrial cooperati...