Washington, Feb. 13 -- Washington remains keen to cooperate with India through the Quad grouping and bolster defence ties with New Delhi, indicated the Trump administration's top diplomat for South Asia in a briefing before a subcommittee in the US House of Representatives. Paul Kapur, who serves as Assistant Secretary of State handling US ties with South and Central Asia, added that the US is planning fresh arms sales to India. Kapur also pointed to the resilience of the US-India relationship despite recent tensions over trade and welcomed the recent framework agreement for a bilateral trade deal announced by Modi and Trump earlier this month. India, US, Australia and Japan make up the Quad grouping that is viewed as a counterweight to China. "India anchors South Asia and more broadly, the western half of the Indo-Pacific, the United States and India maintain high level diplomatic touchpoints...," Kapur said in his opening statement to the US House of Representative's subcommittee on South and Central Asian affairs....