NAMASTE TRUMP | US PRESIDENT VISIT TO INDIA | CIVILS_ONLINED

          NAMASTE TRUMP

• The 45^th US President Donald Trump has arrived in India for his first-ever diplomatic visit to the nation.
• A grand public reception was held for Trump at Motera Stadium termed as ‘Namaste Trump’

• The chief organisers behind the stadium event is a newly-formed outfit called the ‘Donald Trump Nagrik Abhinandan Samiti’ (DTNAS)

• Cost – Approx. ₹120 Crore for the 3-hour event
• Trump  visited  the ‘Hriday Kunj‘ at Sabarmati Ashram of Mahatma Gandhi.Several gifts, including Mahatma Gandhi Ji's biography, a charkha (spinning wheel) and a marble statue of three 

• $ 3 billion Defense deal that will send state-of-the-art military helicopters to the country.
• 24 MH-60R helicopters for the Indian Navy

• 6 AH-64E Apache helicopters for the Indian Army
• India is now 5^th largest economy U.S. goods and services trade with India totalled an estimated $142.6 billion in 2018.
• Imports were $58.7 billion
• Exports were $83.9 billion.
• The U.S. goods and services trade deficit with India was $25.2 billion in 2018.
• India is currently USA’s 9th largest goods trading partner with $87.9 billion in tot.al (two way) goods trade during 2018 
• MoU signed for Petronet to invest in American gas company Tellurian
• A commercial agreement for Westinghouse to build six nuclear reactors in Andhra Pradesh