The sources said India has already shortlisted names of two-three heads of states for extending the invitation to be chief guest at the Republic Day parade.
Latest News: US President Donald Trump is unlikely to accept India's invitation to be the chief guest at the Republic Day celebrations, sources said Sunday.
The US is understood to have conveyed to New Delhi that Trump may not be able to honour the invitation as he will have pressing engagements, including his State of The Union (SOTU) address, around the time India will celebrate its Republic Day.
This comes at a time when Indo-US ties have witnessed some strain after India went ahead and sealed a deal with Russia to procure a batch of S-400 air defence missile systems, notwithstanding US threat of punitive action under CAATSA (Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act).
The sources said India has already shortlisted names of two-three heads of states for extending invitation to be chief guest at the Republic Day parade.
Earlier this year, the US announced sanctions against Russia under CAATSA for its alleged meddling in the American presidential election in 2016.
His criticism came a day after the White House barred a CNN reporter from attending a presidential event.
International News → US President Donald Trump said the American media was "dying to see" him make mistake, as he continued his public criticism of the press a day after the White House barred a reporter from attending one of his events.
"Look at all those cameras. All those cameras, every stop I get all these cameras. This never happened to (former president Barack) Obama. This never happened to (George W.) Bush. This didn't happen," Trump told his supporters in Iowa yesterday, referring to the camera journalists present at the event.
"They just follow. They're dying to see us make a little bit of a mistake," he said.
His criticism came a day after the White House barred a CNN reporter from attending a presidential event, arguing that it expects "everyone to be respectful of the presidency."
The decision invited strong protests from journalists.
The White House Correspondents Association condemned the "misguided and inappropriate decision" to bar the reporter from attending a Rose Garden event after she shouted a question at Trump during an Oval Office media availability.
Today, Trump said the news media analyzes his every word. "They say, did he say that? Could it have been?" he said. The news media, he said, follows him "like never before".
Trump urged his supporters to spread the word about the good work he is doing. "The good news is: we can get the word out... And the word that I get out is what's happened to steel in this country over the last six months," he said, making a case for his steel and aluminum tariffs, that they are helping US workers.
"Even though we've been here for a little more than a year and a half, but we really hit it big over the last six months with what we've done," Trump said.
Trump's run-ins with the American media began soon after his presidency began in January last year. He has previously accused the media of spreading "fake news" and for closely scrutinising....continue reading
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