Trump offers top-end jets, trade deal to India amid talks

US President Donald Trump offered to sell state-of-the-art fighter jets to India as he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to ramp up trade, rekindling a bond that defies the new US administration’s punitive approach to much of the world. Mr Modi, only the fourth world leader to visit the White House since Mr Trump’s return, described the fellow nationalist as a friend and told him he was adopting a take on his “Make America Great Again” slogan. Mr Trump said that he found a “special bond” with Mr Modi and India and, in an uncharacteristic if ironic show of…