India, June 18 -- As India and the United States work to thaw their relations, US President Donald Trump said he would like to visit the country soon.

Speaking to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the G7 Summit 2026 in France, the US leader stated he would be "going to India sometime in the future", but did not specify a date or year, HT reported earlier.

If the White House does announce a visit to India, it would be Trump's first since the start of his second term in 2025. His last visit to India was in 2020, where he was welcomed with "Namaste Trump" banners across the nation.

Despite tensions in ties between New Delhi and Washington, Trump downplayed them and said that, as long as he was president, India "would have a...