NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday reiterated its rejection of US President Donald Trump's offer to mediate in the dispute with Pakistan over J&K, and said India had a long-standing national position that any issue pertaining to the Union Territory would be ...

India has proposed levies on some US goods in response to Washington’s duties on steel and aluminum, marking its first retaliation against President Donald Trump’s tariff regime, even as the two countries move closer to finalizing a trade deal.

While US mediators, alongside diplomatic backchannels, prevented a bigger conflagration, President Trump's offer has put Delhi in a spot. "Obviously, it would not be welcome by the Indian side. It goes against our stated position for many years," Shyam Saran, a former Indian foreign secretary, tells the BBC.

US President Donald Trump, on Tuesday, reiterated the US' role in brokering peace between India and Pakistan, saying he told the two sides to "not trade nuclear missiles (and) trade the things that you make so beautifully".

He made the comment even as New Delhi categorically rejected his claims about the US playing a mediating role to help India and Pakistan reach a ceasefire on Saturday, ending almost four-day-long cross-border military offensives and counter-offensives between the two South Asian nations.

India is considering placing tariffs on some goods produced in the U.S. to counter the Trump administration's duties on steel and aluminum products.

A series of military strikes last week by India and Pakistan brought the nuclear-armed rivals closer to a broader war.

Iran's foreign minister warned Britain, France and Germany on Monday that a decision to trigger a U.N. mechanism reimposing sanctions on Tehran could lead to an irreversible escalation of tensions.