New Delhi, April 21 -- Former Ambassador Mahesh Sachdev has described US Vice President JD Vance's ongoing visit to India as a "significant" development, marking the first high-level political outreach from the new US administration since President Donald Trump's return to office in January.

"The visit is significant because it's the first major political head in the United States' new government that took over under President Trump on January 20. Nearly three months down the line, the Vice President of the United States, the number 2 person in the hierarchy, is visiting India," said Sachdev. He added, "It's certainly an important symbolic, as well as substantive gesture, which India and the US are likely to use to coordinate their relat...