@candhan How will this help US or hurt India? It will hurt a few individuals, that's all. Those individuals will stay in / return to India, work there, pay taxes there, and do the work that is now outsourced to India because the work will follow them.
If indeed this is retaliatory (which it may not be, it could be a case of media deriving correlation of two independent things) then it looks like a knee-jerk reaction.