India, May 15 -- Hours after US president Donald Trump said he doesn't want Apple to manufacture in India, the iPhone maker has reassured the Indian government that the country would continue to remain its manufacturing hub.

Citing government sources, PTI said Apple executives told Indian officials that the company's investment plans for India remain intact.

"Apple has said that its investment plans in India are intact and it proposes to continue to have India as a major manufacturing base for its products," a source was quoted as saying.

In its post-earnings call earlier this month, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the company plans to shift its assembly units for iPhone sold in the US to India from China to India due to the trade war bet...