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US President Donald Trump announced Sergio Gor as the new Ambassador to New Delhi on August 23. An ethnic Russian immigrant born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Sergio ‘Gor’ Gorokhovsy, 39, is the youngest US envoy to New Delhi. His appointment comes at a time when Indo-US relations have hit rock bottom after Trump imposed 50% trade tariffs on goods from India, the highest in the world. advertisement Trump has repeatedly taken credit for mediating a ceasefire between India and Pakistan—on 40 different occasions by one count— something a discomfited New Delhi has vehemently denied. Consequently, India-US relations in the last three...