Top Obama aide to visit India June 25

October 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will undertake a visit of the United States in the third week of November.

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.

September 10th, 2009 Obama picks GOP Senate aide for CFTC commissionWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has chosen a Republican Senate aide for a seat on the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. The White House announced Scott O'Malia's nomination on Thursday.

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.

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 10th, 2009 L'AQUILA - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will go to the US later this year while US President Barack Obama will visit India next year. The invitations were exchanged and accepted by the two leaders at a brief "pull-aside" meeting during the G8-G5 summit meeting in this quake-hit Italian town Thursday, Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said here.

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

June 22nd, 2009 Obama aide to visit Afghanistan, Pakistan, IndiaWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's national security adviser is traveling to Afghanistan and Pakistan. White House spokesman Mike Hammer said Monday that the president tasked Gen.

June 4th, 2009 Source: Obama nominee tied to CIA interrogationWASHINGTON — A congressional aide says the Obama administration's pick for a top intelligence post at the Homeland Security Department has ties to the CIA's harsh interrogation program. This could become an issue during Philip Mudd's confirmation hearing, which is expected next week.

June 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William J. Burns will visit India June 10-13 to "discuss a broad agenda to further strengthen partnership" between the two countries after the return of the Congress-led coalition government in India.

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.

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.

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.

March 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be going to India at some point, but it's not clear whether the visit would be before or after the Indian general election next month. 'At some point Clinton will be going to India, but there isn't any plan at this moment of her travel,' State Department spokesman Robert Wood said Tuesday briefing reporters about Clinton's meeting Monday with visiting Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon.

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.