India-US relationship broad, deep and growing, says top American Senator

The Republican Senator from Colorado is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy

The relationship between India and the US is growing, a top Senator said on Thursday as he expressed condolences over the loss of Indian soldiers' lives in a face-off with Chinese troops along the Line of Actual Control.

Twenty Indian Army personnel were killed in the violent clashes in eastern Ladakh's Galwan Valley on June 15.

"The US-India relationship is broad, deep, and growing and we discussed how vital the cooperation between our nations is to countering common challenges and aggression in the region and upholding a rules-based international order in the Indo-Pacific," said Senator Cory Gardner after his call with India's