The US and India are actively engaged on a bilateral trade agreement to deepen economic and strategic partnership, the US ambassador-designate to New Delhi said Monday. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, India has emerged as the second biggest buyer of Russian crude after China, upsetting the Trump administration, which criticized the purchases as helping fuel Moscow’s war machine.For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.In August, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to place an additional 25 percent tariff on India for its purchases of Russian oil, bringing the combined tariffs imposed by the United States to a steep 50 percent.A close aide of Trump, the new ambassador-designate, Sergio Gor, said the next call between the two sides on trade-related matters was scheduled Tuesday.“Real friends can disagree, but always resolve their differences in the end,” Gor said in an address on his first day in