Obama to visit India next year

September 24th, 2009 NEW YORK - External Affairs Minister S M Krishna met US President Barack Obama here today. After his meeting with Krishna, Obama said: "Looking forward to first state visit by Indian Prime Minister Dr.

August 14th, 2009 KATMANDU - Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal on Friday hinted that Nepal and India may reach an agreement on starting some new projects during his visit to India. Saying that his visit is aimed at strengthening mutual understanding and bilateral ties, he urged everyone not to view his visit with suspicion.

August 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Setting the tone for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's official visit to Washington in November, US ambassador to India Timothy J. Roemer Wednesday said the "most tangible results of the partnership" would be announced during the trip.

July 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's maiden visit to India in her capacity as America's top diplomat is being keenly observed by experts and analysts all over. They believe that Indo-Pak ties would be a key topic of discussion on Clinton's agenda during her talks with the Indian leadership.

July 7th, 2009 ROME - India Tuesday said its ties with the US were "progressing well". "India-US relations are progressing well.

June 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's National Security Adviser James Jones will visit New Delhi as part of ongoing US "effort to further deepen and strengthen our key bilateral partnership with India." Jones will visit New Delhi at the invitation of his counterpart, National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan, after visiting Afghanistan and Pakistan to monitor implementation of the new US war plan, National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer announced Monday.

May 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - US President Barack Obama Saturday telephoned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to congratulate him on his victory in the general elections and hoped for a continuity in the India-US strategic partnership, an official said. Manmohan Singh reiterated his invitation to Michelle and Barack Obama to visit India, a key aide to the prime minister said.

May 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama considers Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh a 'very wise leader' whom he respects and is looking forward to visiting India soon. Obama conveyed these sentiments to the new Indian ambassador to the US, Meera Shankar, as she presented her credentials at a ceremony at the White House Wednesday.

April 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Friday US President Barack Obama had told him that he was keen to visit India early with his entire family and build on the improving relationship with this country. In his interaction with women journalists Friday, Manmohan Singh spoke about his meeting with the US president on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in London last week.

April 8th, 2009 BAGHDAD - US President Barack Obama left Baghdad after a brief, previously unannounced visit to Baghdad late Tuesday evening. Obama had spent some four hours in Baghdad, meeting with US forces while also holding talks with Iraqi leaders, including President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

April 7th, 2009 BAGHDAD - US President Barack Obama landed in Baghdad Tuesday on a previously unannounced visit. His plane arrived from Istanbul, where Obama had ended a tour of European countries.

March 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to meet with US President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the G-20 meeting in London next month. Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said in Washington that officials of two countries are also discussing a visit by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to India in near future.

March 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US and India are both hoping that President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would meet on the sidelines of next month's summit of Group of 20 leading economies in London. 'We both hope there would be a meeting between the two leaders,' Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said at a press conference here Wednesday after concluding the first high-level interaction with the new Obama administration.

February 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Leading US business magazine Forbes has urged President Barack Obama to maintain the 'exhilarating degree of cooperation' that existed between India and US during the Bush administration and make an early trip to New Delhi to dispel Indian apprehensions about his administration. In an article titled 'Obama should visit India soon', Tunku Varadarajan, a professor at New York University's Stern Business School and a fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, also points to an early mis-step in the new administration's dealings with India.

February 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - US special envoy Richard Holbrooke will visit Pakistan, Afghanistan and India after a security conference in Germany this week, the State Department said Wednesday. The envoy left for London Wednesday and will travel from the British capital to Germany's Munich, where he is due to take part in the annual conference on international security policy, State Department Spokesman Robert Wood told reporters.