Opinion | PM Modi’s Évian Play: What Will It Take To Seal The Deal With Trump?

Last Updated:June 13, 2026, 17:33 IST The deaths of the three seafarers cannot be dissolved into the arithmetic of a trade negotiation. They are a separate moral account, and India has been right to press it as such Three Indian seafarers are dead, killed by the United States Navy in the Gulf of Oman. Their tanker was struck by Hellfire missiles. Twenty-one of their colleagues were pulled from the water. India’s External Affairs Minister called his American counterpart to say, in plain language, that what happened was “not justified”. The US Chargé d’Affaires was summoned to the Ministry of External…