The TOI correspondent from Washington: Nearly nine months into the Trump administration’s four-year term, the Republican-majority US Senate on Tuesday confirmed two nominees who will be engaging New Delhi at a time US-India ties are in a funk. Sergio Gor and Paul Kapur will have to navigate an impasse on tariffs and personalised business-driven diplomacy from the White House that has derailed its own strategic priorities in the first Trump term. Gor, Trump’s ambassadorial pick for India, and Kapur, the State Department’s choice to lead the South Asia bureau, were among the 107 nominees confirmed by the Senate in a single en bloc vote despite a government shutdown. Also confirmed by the vote was Indian-American Anjani Sinha as the US ambassador to Singapore. The Senate's confirmation

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