Security, trade, and global tensions were key talking points in the crucial Saturday meeting in New Delhi between PM Modi and US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who is on his first official visit to India.
Rubio's three day visit to India from May 23-26 comes amid strained India-US ties, owing to trade and immigration tensions between the two nations.
Modi has also been invited for a reciprocal visit to the White House in the near future.
"India and the United States will continue to work closely for the global good," PM Modi wrote in a post on X, highlighting the "sustained progress" made in the India-US Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership.
Rubio, who had arrived in Kolkata earlier today, is next scheduled to hold talks with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and attend a meeting of the QUAD foreign ministers in New Delhi.
His first visit from Kolkata this morning was the Mother House, the headquarters of Saint Teresa's Missionaries of Charity, after which he flew to New Delhi for the meeting with PM Modi.
Trump's ambassador to India, Sergio Gor, also lauded the productive meeting between Rubio and the PM, pointing out that "productive" talks on critical technologies and the status quo in the Indo-Pacific had also taken place in New Delhi today.
This comes amid strained tensions between the two nations, with no proper agreement reached in talks for the India-US bilateral trade deal, as the uncertainty around the Trump administration's tariff policies have rendered the original terms of the deal obsolete.
The Section 301 investigations by the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), which target sectors critical to Indian exports, AI, and renewable energy have also further plunged the trade tensions into turmoil.
Ties between New Delhi and Washington further cooled over the Trump administration's new green card policy, announced Friday by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which mandates that those living in the US who wanted to transition to a green card were to complete the process through a US embassy or consulate outside the country, “except in extraordinary circumstances".
Though some of the rules under the new green card directive were later softened, they continue to incur backlash over the great deal of uncertainty that green card aspirants in the US will now face over it.