Washington, Feb. 24 -- US Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, Jacob Helberg, on Tuesday (local time) said that Prime Minister Modi and US President Donald Trump set a goal to increase trade between the US and India to 500 billion dollars.

During the congressional hearing, Helberg expressed strong confidence in the future of US-India trade.

He also outlined the administration's "maximum pressure" policy on Russia aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.

"The administration has instated a policy of maximum pressure on Russia. The goal of the administration is very much to bring about an end to the war in Ukraine. That included the instatment of secondary sanctions which had the effect of affecting a number of different Indian inter...