Washington, June 30 (IANS) US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor said that his close relationships with President Donald Trump’s Cabinet members and senior administration officials had enabled him to cut through bureaucracy and deliver quicker results for American businesses operating in India.Speaking at the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) Leadership Summit, Gor said his previous role as Director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office had given him direct access to many of t…
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Washington, June 30 (IANS) The foreign ministers of the Quad countries are expected to meet in the Philippines in about two weeks, US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor announced, saying the grouping remained central to advancing a free, secure and prosperous Indo-Pacific.Speaking at the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) Leadership Summit, Gor said the proposed meeting would bring together the foreign ministers of the United States, India, Japan and Australia on the sidelines of engageme…
Washington, June 30 (IANS) The proposed India-US trade agreement is in its “last one or two per cent” and negotiators are working to resolve the remaining issues, US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor said, expressing confidence that the deal would soon be concluded after nearly 18 months of negotiations.Speaking at the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) Leadership Summit, Gor said officials from both countries had intensified engagement in recent weeks to bring the agreement across the f…
Washington, May 16 (IANS) Former US Ambassador to India Richard Verma has warned that the US-India relationship is entering a difficult phase marked by tariffs, declining student visas and reduced clean energy cooperation, even as he described India as America’s “defining partnership” of the century.Speaking this week at the Council on Foreign Relations’ 2026 International Affairs Fellowship keynote, Verma said the relationship had expanded dramatically over the past 25 years but was now…
Washington, April 24 (IANS) Indian American lawmakers and community leaders have strongly condemned remarks by Donald Trump targeting Indian immigrants and India, calling them offensive, divisive and harmful to bilateral ties.Ami Bera, the longest-serving Indian American Member of Congress, said he was proud of his heritage and of the United States. “As the son of immigrants from India, I take great pride in both my heritage and in the country that gave my family the opportunity to build a bet…
Washington, April 23 (IANS) Former US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell described India as America’s most important strategic partner of the 21st century, even as he acknowledged rising concerns over recent strains in the relationship. “I believe the most important relationship for the United States in the 21st century is between the United States and India,” Campbell said at the New India Conference hosted by the Hudson Institute.At the same time, he said it was “troubling… that…
Washington, April 22 (IANS) Raising serious doubts over Pakistan’s offer to broker talks between the United States and Iran, former US National Security Advisor (NSA) H R McMaster on Wednesday accused Islamabad of pursuing a dual-track approach in security cooperation while asserting that the country should certainly be considered as a client of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). “I think what you have to do is consider Pakistan as certainly a client of the Chinese Communist Party,” McMaster tol…
Washington, April 22 (IANS) Former US National Security Advisor (NSA) H.R. McMaster has described current US-India relations as “rocky” but stressed that the two countries remain indispensable partners amid rising global tensions, particularly from China. “It’s been rocky, I’ll say that,” McMaster told IANS in an exclusive interview, reflecting on the trajectory of ties in recent years. “It didn’t need to be that rocky in my view.”He pointed to strains that emerged during the T…
Washington, Feb 12 (IANS) The United States has claimed India has been “reducing” its purchases of Russian oil and diversifying energy imports, as lawmakers pressed the State Department on enforcement challenges tied to Moscow’s war in Ukraine. During a House subcommittee hearing on South and Central Asia on Wednesday (local time), Republican Rep. Keith Self raised concerns that continued Russian oil sales were helping finance the war.“The sale of Russian oil continues to fund the Ukrain…
Washington, Feb 10 (IANS) US Congressman Suhas Subramanyam welcomed the India-United States trade deal announced last week, calling it a necessary step after what he described as an unsustainable period of high tariffs that hurt businesses and strained bilateral ties.“I think it’s a great step forward,” Subramanyam said when asked about the agreement. “I think the reality is, we were not on a sustainable path by having these high tariffs, and the reality is moving forward, the US and India…