The latest: As President Trump met with business leaders and politicians on the second day of his official trip to India, violence simmered in the northeastern part of the Indian capital, about nine miles away.
Trump arrived Monday for his first visit as president to India. He visited the ashram where Mohandas Gandhi lived for 13 years, addressed a stadium of 100,000 with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and toured the Taj Mahal. His first day was more symbolism than substance.
Modi has cultivated a relationship with Trump even as tensions over trade have flared. Last year, Modi invited Trump to a large rally he held in Houston (it was called “Howdy, Modi”) where the two men described one another admiringly.
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As India prepared to greet Trump, a wall rose: In the city of Ahmedabad, municipal authorities built a 6-foot-high, 200-yard-long wall in front of a slum along a road Trump could take near the airport.