{"id":321974,"date":"2020-04-09T06:14:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T06:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321974"},"modified":"2020-04-09T06:14:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T06:14:11","slug":"times-like-these-bring-friends-closer-pm-modi-responds-to-president-trumps-thank-you-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/times-like-these-bring-friends-closer-pm-modi-responds-to-president-trumps-thank-you-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Times like these bring friends closer\u2019: PM Modi responds to President Trump\u2019s thank you tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-315073 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/modi-trump-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/modi-trump-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/modi-trump-1-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that the India US Partnership is stronger than ever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Responding to President Donald Trump who expressed his gratitude for India\u2019s decision to supply Hydroxychloroquine, PM Modi said India would do everything possible to help the humanity&#8217;s fight against coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cFully agree with you President @realDonaldTrump. Times like these bring friends closer. The India-US partnership is stronger than ever. India shall do everything possible to help humanity&#8217;s fight against COVID-19. We shall win this together,\u201d PM Modi said in response to Trump&#8217;s tweet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier, Donald Trump in a tweet said, \u201cExtraordinary times require even closer cooperation between friends. Thank you, India and the Indian people, for the decision on HCQ. Will not be forgotten! Thank you Prime Minister @NarendraModi for your strong leadership in helping not just India, but humanity, in this fight!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India has cleared the export of\u00a0Hydroxychloriquine to the US as well as to neighbouring countries that have been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, Trump had earlier hinted of \u2018retaliation\u2019 if India does not clear the export of Hydroxychloroquine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Last week, President Trump spoke to PM Modi over the phone and requested him to give serious consideration to releasing the hold it put on a US order for hydroxychloroquine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that the India US Partnership is stronger than ever. Responding to President Donald Trump who expressed his gratitude for India\u2019s decision to supply Hydroxychloroquine, PM Modi said India would do everything possible to help the humanity&#8217;s fight against coronavirus. \u201cFully agree with you President @realDonaldTrump. Times like these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321975,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321974\/revisions\/321975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}