After a ceremonial welcome at the White House on Monday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will hold wide-ranging discussions with Bush.
Defence and security cooperation, short of any military alliance, will also high be on agenda of talks that Singh will have with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday.
China's state-run media commented that India's close relationship with the US could create geopolitical rivalries in Asia.
Doing away with protocol, Hu was received at the airport by President Pervez Musharraf, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and Deputy High Commissioner of India T C A Raghavan.
The Indo-US defence relationship may now get personal attention with strong India-backer Ashton Carter today being nominated by President Barack Obama for the key post of the defence secretary.
A pact between the NPCIL and Westinghouse to build six power reactors in Andhra Pradesh is unlikely to be signed.
India Friday made it clear that the exercise of separation of its civilian and military nuclear facilities would be its sole responsibility. \n
India, US can discuss major international issues: Natwar Singh
There are many reasons for Japan to turn a deaf ear to its anti-nuclear lobby and concentrate on its geo-strategic imperatives to sign the nuclear deal with India, says Debalina Ghoshal.
Putting behind the post-Pokhran freeze on export of dual use technologies, the US has inked an agreement with India to substantially boost bilateral high technology trade to further consolidate the strategic relationship between the two countries.
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval has met US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel and discussed a range of issues, including the strategic Indo-US partnership and future areas of bilateral security cooperation.
The US wants its trade with India to grow multi-fold, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal told lawmakers.
The navies of India, the US, Japan and Australia on Tuesday held a series of complex manoeuvres in the Bay of Bengal, kick-starting the four-day-long first phase of the Malabar naval exercise, seen as a prelude to future military cooperation among the member nations of the Quad or Quadrilateral Coalition.
The second phase of the mega exercise is scheduled to be held from November 17 to 20 in the Arabian sea.
Donald Trump, accompanied by US First Lady Melania Trump, was received by Kovind at the forecourt of majestic Rashtrapati Bhavan along with his wife Savita.
Juster, 62, is an old India hand who played a key role in the landmark Indo-US civil nuclear deal.
Highlighting that India's strong economy with a growth rate of 7.6 per cent per annum is creating 'new opportunities for mutual prosperity', Modi said transformative American technologies in India and growing investment by Indian companies in the US both have a positive impact on the lives of citizens of both countries.
Sonia Gandhi,Manmohan Singh and party leaders met Obama.
Ashley J Tellis, a leading authority on Indo-US relations, tells Archis Mohan in an emailed interview that it is time Washington and New Delhi agreed on the contours of their 'strategic partnership', and that India's elite could learn from Prime Minister Narendra Modi in how he has put India's interests first and his own sentiments about the Americans second.
Jaishankar is the first foreign secretary to head the Ministry of External Affairs as minister.
This could be their last meeting as leaders of the two countries with Obama's second term as US President coming to an end in November.
Swaraj said there is scope to do a lot more and this would be an important element of their deliberations.
To mobilise private capital in the clean energy sector, the US has agreed to place a field investment officer in India apart from hosting a series of events to overcome strategic barriers in accelerating institutional and private financing.
Gokhale and Pompeo expressed satisfaction over the significant progress and the quality of the India-US Strategic Partnership
In a late night development, S Jaishankar, India's Ambassador to the United States, was appointed foreign secretary on Wednesday, replacing Sujatha Singh whose tenure has been abruptly 'curtailed" by nearly 8 months.
The Trump administration has a "very positive view" of the Indo-US relationship and a lot of interest in taking the ties forward, Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar said on Saturday after his wide-ranging talks with senior Cabinet members and top officials in Washington.
Modi, who is leaving for Iran on Sunday, will also pay a two-day visit to Qatar from June 4.
Two top United States lawmakers have introduced a legislation in the House of Representatives to designate India as a special global partner of America
'In the time I have been an Indiawallah, I have seen three US Presidential visits to India, nuclear sanctions, nuclear cooperation, a border conflict with Pakistan, the growth of IT services, a government losing a confidence vote, and so much more,' Rick Rossow, the new Wadhwani Chair in US-India Policy Studies tells Rediff.com's Aziz Haniffa.
'Political meetings will be a mere side show; the main show is economic investment and the business partnership. The success of Modi's US visit will be judged on the basis of India's ability to attract American investment and setting up of manufacturing in India to give jobs to millions,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
'China might soon have to seriously consider whether it prefers an Indo-US hyphenation to a Sino-Indian one.'
United States Secretary of State John Kerry and Union HRD Minister Dr M M Pallam Raju on Tuesday called for greater cooperation between the two countries in the education and knowledge building sector.
'I made it known through diplomatic channels that I was unhappy.' 'So, he called me and tried to explain, but I said this is something that doesn't happen between friends.'
'Having tied himself in knots, he just might take a decision which is dangerous, one that could take his nation to war.'
