NEW DELHI: President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a deal on Sunday to clear the way for American companies to help build India’s energy sector, potentially bringing tens of billions of dollars and thousands of jobs to the United States.

A nuclear deal in 2008 was hailed as the highpoint of the relationship between the two countries that have sometimes been at odds. But they had been at an impasse since India passed the laws in 2010 that left suppliers, not operators, accountable for damages resulting from accidents at nuclear facilities.

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