Trump invites Modi to attend G7 summit, seeks to expand scope of bloc

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has received an invitation from US President Donald Trump to attend the next Group of Seven summit, the External Affairs Ministry said on Tuesday.

Modi, in a telephone call, told Trump that India would be happy to work with the United States and other countries to ensure the success of the next G7 summit, the Reuters reported.

Trump said on Saturday he was postponing until September the summit that had been scheduled for late June at Camp David, the US president's country retreat, and that he wanted to invite Australia, Russia, South Korea and India to the