Last week, India and the US signed multiple agreements on space, climate, defence, and economic cooperation during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to Washington. During the PM’s three-day visit, the Biden administration also tried to allay India’s long-pending concerns about technology transfer. In this interview with DH’s Sumit Pande, Union Minister of State for Science and Technology (Independent Charge) Jitendra Singh discusses the scope and impact of the ISRO-NASA collaboration and India’s entry into the Mineral Security Partnership. Excerpts: How is this visit by Prime Minister Modi qualitatively different from ones in the past by other PMs? The kind…