Indo-US ties downgraded

The health of a relationship between the United States and any other country is best gauged by whether a political appointee has been named as American ambassador to that country, and how close this ambassador-designate is personally and politically to the US president of the day. By these criteria, the Indo-US bilateral ties have slid back to the mundane, diplomatic level. The appointment of a careerist, Nancy Powell, to the Delhi embassy, just cleared by the US Senate, marks the eighth time a professional...

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