Ties tested, bonds boosted


Modi and Trump, in this file photo, greeting some of the large crowd, most of Indian ancestry, who turned out for an event with the leaders during Modi’s official US visit, at NRG Stadium in Houston. — ©2025 The New York Times Company

OVER the past year, a pair of legal bombshells have put India’s growing relationship with the United States to one of its biggest tests yet.

Just as the two sides were announcing unprecedented expansions in defence and technology ties, US prosecutors accused Indian government agents of plotting to assassinate a US citizen on US soil.

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