Denying a suggestion that Clinton was trying to send some signal by keeping her meetings with Indian government leaders for the third day of her visit Crowley said: 'I don't think so at all.'

'I do not think there is a cookie cutter approach here,' he said. 'What the schedule reflects is the secretary's commitment to have a broad-based engagement not just with the government officials but also with civil society and entrepreneurs, as she did over the weekend.'

'There's no message being sent here at all,' he said.

(Arun Kumar can be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)