India, Oct. 20 -- India and the United States on Tuesday reviewed their bilateral cooperation, with the focus on energy and defence, as US secretary of state Marco Rubio used a meeting with external affairs minister S Jaishankar to urge the Indian side to increase energy trade and step up purchases of American technologies and systems.

Jaishankar and Rubio, who travelled to India for the second time in less than five months with a large business delegation, met in the country's financial hub against the backdrop of persisting strains in bilateral ties over a range of issues, including the Trump administration's unpredictable trade policies, enhanced immigration restrictions affecting Indian professionals and the US's growing proximity to...