India, Sept. 16 -- India and the United States will hold trade talks in New Delhi on Tuesday, senior commerce ministry officials said, underlining a reversal in bilateral ties after weeks of criticism from US officials and raising hopes for a breakthrough on a free trade agreement that was jeopardised by the punitive tariffs imposed by US president Donald Trump on India for buying Russian oil.

"The chief negotiator of the US [Brendan Lynch] is visiting India tonight," India's chief negotiator for the bilateral trade talks and special secretary, commerce, Rajesh Agrawal, said on Monday afternoon. The US team will meet the Indian negotiating team on Tuesday, commerce secretary Sunil Barthwal confirmed, adding that, overall, the two sides a...