India-US partnership

Washington, June 19 (IANS) A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met US President Donald Trump in France, a powerful US senator said the United States should be strengthening, not weakening, its partnership with India, arguing that punitive tariffs had sent the wrong signal to a key strategic partner. "Well, I've not gotten a readout of the meeting. I hope it will improve relations," Senator Mark Warner told IANS in response to a question on the meeting between PM Modi and President Trump. The Virginia Democrat said India-US ties remain critically important and stressed the need for Washington to continue…

Washington, Dec 10 (IANS) The US-India strategic partnership -- long viewed in Washington as a cornerstone for stability in the Indo-Pacific -- has come under unusually sharp scrutiny as leading analysts warned lawmakers that the relationship faces its most serious political and economic headwinds in years. In prepared remarks submitted to a Congressional committee ahead of a hearing on India on Wednesday, three India experts told the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on South and Central Asia that while defence, technology, and maritime cooperation continue to deepen, the partnership has been destabilised by tariffs, trade disputes, and the Trump administration’s…