Washington, Sept. 10 -- India is one of the top relationships the US has in the world today, and Washington is in a period of "extraordinary transition" in that relationship with Delhi, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said.

Speaking at the confirmation hearing of Sergio Gor - President Donald Trump's nominee for the US Ambassador to India - in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rubio said he has known Gor for a very long time and "who is the nominee to India, which is, I would say, one of the top relationships the US has in the world today, in terms of the future, what the world is going to look like."

Rubio said that in the 21st Century, the "story is going to be written in the Indo-Pacific. In fact, it's so important that we'v...