"I think we're increasingly getting towards that point, and that together we will now take significant steps with the Indian Government to improve our relationship and return it to a more constructive place," she added.
Harf would not spell out the planned steps saying "I think on all sides, we have to take significant steps. It's not just the US, it's the Indians as well."
"We just want to get back to business and we want to put this behind us, and we want both sides to work together to move the relationship forward," she said.
Meanwhile, Indian ambassador to the US, S Jaishankar met Rose E Gottemoeller, acting under secretary of state for arms control and international security, at the State Department Monday to discuss bilateral cooperation.
Gottemoeller "stressed that it is critical that both sides refocus our attention on the broad agenda before us," and "underscored the importance of increasing bilateral cooperation on non-proliferation, defence, and arms
control"
Harf cited it as "just an example" of "the kind of business we just need to get back to, quite frankly, now that this is hopefully coming to an end."
Last week, two senior US officials, assistant secretary of state Nisha Desai Biswal and Energy secretary Ernest Moniz, were forced to cancel their scheduled visits to New Delhi because of the Khobragade affair.
