TOI correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed he has an assurance from Prime Minister Narendra Modi that New Delhi is tapering down its purchase of Russian oil to help stop the Russia-Ukraine war, even as an Indian trade team arrived in Washington DC, to advance talks on the tariff impasse. In his customary freewheeling banter with pool reporters in the White House, Trump indicated that India’s pledge was conveyed through the new US ambassador to India, Sergio Gor, who was present in the Oval Office to brief the President about his meeting with PM Modi and the Indian foreign office earlier this week in New Delhi. “He's assured me, there will be no oil purchase from Russia. I don't know. Maybe that's a breaking story. Can I say that? Woul

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