NEW DELHI: India cleared on Tuesday a $2.5 billion deal to buy 37 military helicopters from aviation giant Boeing, on the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States.

Modi’s government is in the middle of a multibillion-dollar upgrade of its Soviet-era military hardware, partly to keep up with neighboring rival Pakistan and big-spending China.

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