India, Feb. 15 -- Donald Trump's administration continues to claim that India has committed to stop buying oil from Russia - in return for a tariff-cut and trade deal - with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio repeating the assertion at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Saturday.

India's external Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, however, skirted a direct answer in his separate session at the conference the same day, amid a political row over it in New Delhi.

Jaishankar maintained that India is "wedded to strategic autonomy", at a time when the Congress-led Opposition has accused Narendra Modi's government of "selling out under pressure".

Finer details of the India-US trade deal are being worked out, after Trump announced the fra...