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US ambassador to India resigns

Reuters
The LIS ambassador to India has resigned following a row over the arrest of a junior Indian diplomat in New York that pushed relations between the world's biggest democracies to their lowest ebb in more than a decade.
LIS State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf denied on Monday that Nancy Powell's resignation was related to ongoing tensions after the December arrest and subsequent strip search of the Indian diplomat, Devyani Khobragade.
But analysts said it was clear the position of Powell, a career diplomat who has held several postings in South Asia and became the ambassador to India in 2012, had become untenable as a result of the affair.
The United States sees India as a natural ally on a range of issues and a potential counterbalance to China in Asia. In 2010, President Barack Obama declared that the US-Indian relationship would be "one of the defining partnerships of the 21 st century."
Trade in goods was $63.7 billion last year, and LIS Vice President Joseph Biden last year called for that to grow to half a trillion dollars in five years.
But trade relations were deteriorating even before the diplomatic row and in India's eyes, Powell's tenure never recovered from Khobragade's treatment. India took retaliatory measures against the LIS embassy, including removing the ambassador's exemption from airport security searches.
Many Indian officials felt Powell had mishandled the case, which was related to the low wages that Khobragade paid a domestic worker. Both the Indian government and Narendra Modi, the opposition candidate who is favourite to become India's next prime minister after elections that end in May, saw the arrest as I IS hypocrisy and arrogance.
In response, India clamped down on alleged legal infractions by the embassy. at a rally in Madhya Pradesh, apologizing to people for arriving late.
The BJP's prime ministerial candidate, who addressed a string of rallies in UP and Madhya Pradesh for the national election from next week, said he was also forced to wait at the Delhi airport.
The BJP mirrored his anger and blamed the Centre for the hold-ups.
"Such indirect measures should not be taken to stall or stop any politician," said the party's Piyush Goyal.
Aviation ministry sources, however, attributed the delays to the Ahmedabad-based Karnavati Aviation Limited, which had arranged Modi's trips yesterday.
They said the company submitted the flight plan just 10 minutes before it was to take off in Delhi, so the Air Traffic Control refused to clear it. This delay reportedly continued when Modi was to fly from Bareilly to Rewa in Madhya Pradesh.