There are huge opportunities for US companies to invest in India, he said in Washington, DC.
There is deep angst and growing concern by America Inc, over India's Preferential Market Access policy and fears that as a quid pro quo, lawmakers in the US Congress may limit or even prohibit the free movement of Indian technical professionals, including quashing efforts to expand the H-1 B visa program.
USIBC wants Obama to raise America Inc's concerns with Manmohan Singh.
The US Chamber of Commerce has written the President complaining of India's discrimination against a wide range of US exports.
USIBC is pulling together a similar advocacy team like what they did during the US-India civil nuclear initiative.
Some American lawmakers and organisations want to torpedo the H-1B visa program.
"Satya Nadella is a perfect example of how appropriate, thoughtful immigration reform can benefit both our free-market democracies, says Ron Somers, president of the US-India Business Council.
Donald Trump's executive order prohibiting the entry of people from seven Muslim-majority nations widened the rift between the Trump administration and several leading American companies.
Though the US has got together a number of vetted and potential Indian business partners, most of these companies say they haven't had much luck in stitching up deals to tap into India as an export market for their goods.
Massive restrictions on legal immigration - including restricting immigrants who contribute to medicine, science, and research in the United States, and who are working to develop treatments for coronavirus and other deadly diseases - will not only hinder efforts to save lives, but prevent job creation and hurt American economy as the country struggles to recover.
Narendra Modi's diplomacy and persuasive prowess has ensured long-term investments from China and Japan.
Corporate America does not believe that the United States-India relationship has been oversold, but that it's certainly over-hyped. However, it is more concerned over New Delhi's recent actions such as retroactive taxes and predicts all of this will lead to foreign direct investment drying up at a time when India needs it more than ever.
As India's top Cabinet Ministers and industry leaders landed in Washington for crucial talks with their US counterparts in Washington, Corporate America on Wednesday urged the Obama Administration to embrace India as a knowledge partner.
The Narendra Modi-led government's functioning in its first week has offered a renewed sense of optimism even as no major policy decision or economic reforms have been announced, according to the US corporate sector.
USIBC urged a serious evaluation of a more specialised bilateral economic arrangement.
Over the past three years, the US has provided India every opportunity to remove restrictive and unfair marketplace requirements.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram, back in the United States for the second time in less than three months, kicked off a series of meetings with American corporate heavyweights, making a pitch for American investment in India, even as the rupee continued to plummet.
According to an official spokesman, it was also decided that some sectors would be identified for investment through which industry could be set up in minimum time.
A coalition government doesn't lend itself to the kinds of demands US companies are making.
The Washington-based USIBC represents some 350 American companies, including many in Fortune 500 list, like Boeing, Wal Mart, PepsiCo and General Motors and Lockheed Martin that do business in India.
Mirroring the increase in the earnings of their companies, the chief executives and promoters of India's top listed firms gained handsomely from the boom last financial year. Their remuneration includes salaries, perquisites or perks, and profit-linked commissions.
The comprehensive Senate immigration reform legislation, America Inc thinks, will adversely affect Indian IT companies and will have an inimical spillover impact on American firms too.
Unrelenting US pressure at the highest levels had led to New Delhi's capitulation.
Devas Multimedia has seized $87,457.47 cash that ISRO's commercial arm Antrix Corporation held in the US as it looked to enforce a $1.2 billion compensation it had won over a cancelled satellite deal, its lawyer said on Wednesday. Devas Multimedia America Inc had sought seizure of $145,000 but the actual recovery was $87,457.47 (a little less than Rs 70 lakh). This came after it secured a favourable order from the Eastern District Court of Virginia, Matthew D McGrill said.
India should be given credit for helping America recover from the economic crisis, says S Jaishankar, India's new Ambassador to the US.
A frustrated and angry America Inc believes it has been let down by Delhi after all of its lobbying to push through the deal in the US Congress, reports Aziz Haniffa in Washington, DC.
George Perkovich, vice president, studies, and director, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, believes that with the United States-India nuclear deal in limbo, the lack of convergence between Washington and New Delhi on Iran, climate change, the World Trade Organisation, and stagnation of defence cooperation, the US-India relationship has indeed been oversold.
It's perhaps no small wonder that Pranab Mukherjee, is the go-to person in political circles and not just the Congress Party's savior.
Leading think tanks put a question mark on the India-US strategic partnership. Aziz Haniffa reports
United States lawmakers feel that India had also failed to use its non-permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council to demonstrate why it should be a permanent member
The bidding started at the suggested minimum bid of $300,000.
NEC Solutions (America) Inc, a provider of integrated solutions for connected enterprises in North America, said on Thursday that it was keen on acquiring business process outsourcing companies in India.
Camlin Ltd has informed BSE that a 100% subsidiary company under the name & styled as Camlin North America, INC USA, has been incorporated on November 12, 2002.
The telecommunications and Internet services provider Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd has formed a fully owned subsidiary in the US, VSNL America Inc, to offer the Internet protocol-virutal private network solutions in that country.
HCLA was selected through a highly competitive process where it demonstrated its managed cloud-as-a-service solution called iGOVERN(r).
Sikka is considered to be the force behind SAP's analytics platform, HANA that had helped the company strengthen its position in the global market.
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