"We look forward to President Obama's visit to India next month with great hope and optimism and as an opportunity at highest political level to steer our relationship onto a new higher plane," said Meera Shankar, Indian envoy to the US.
Gopal Krishna makes a case against the nuclear liability bill.
Rabbi Chanochm, 25, and Leiky Gechtman, 23, will return to Mumbai as the first permanent Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries since the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
India has conveyed its concern to the United States over the way an Indian diplomat's daughter was arrested in New York.
The decision in this regard was taken when urban development secretary M Ramachandran met with top officials of the Obama Administration during his four-day visit to the US capital this week.
The difficulties to get a visa to India has forced several Indian Americans to go for a 24-hour fast at Houston, Texas ion the United States. It was covered on the front pages of mainstream newspapers, including The Houston Chronicle.
The Indian Navy has ordered a probe into the bribery allegations against its officers made in a letter from Meera Shankar, the Indian ambassador to US, to the Prime Minister's Office, Defence Minister A K Antony said on Thursday.
Over five years, India has reportedly been named in over 70 enforcements; and of those in 2007, more than half arose in the context of M&A.
India is keenly looking forward to United States President Barack Obama's visit in November and his trip will prove to be a major step forward in strengthening relationship between the two great democracies of the world, according to Meera Shankar, the Indian ambassador to the US."We hope that President Obama's upcoming visit would prove to be a major step forward in not only consolidating what our two democracies have jointly achieved."
United Stated President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama served chicken samosa among other mouthwatering dishes at a White House reception hosted for ambassadors including Indian envoy Meera Shankar. Though samosa in India is a vegetarian preparation but in the West, where it has become one of the most popular Indian snacks, it is served with fillings of minced meat. But Obamas served samosas with chicken fillings with yogurt dip to his guests in White House.
The newly re-constituted US Senate India Caucus will resurrect itself on Tuesday evening with its first meeting for the year during which it will also formally welcome India's Ambassador to the US, Meera Shankar, who assumed duties two months ago.
The agreed text of the proposed agreement on pre-notification of the tests will be referred to the foreign secretaries of the two countries for formalisation, Shankar said after the talks with Pakistan's additional secretary.
'Anyone who has known Meera Shankar would vouch that she is a proud Indian who never bats an eyelid in articulating her views and convictions.'
'Indian government is very keen to attract talent back, particularly for all the new institutions that it is building in the field of higher education.'
India's Ambassador to the United States Meera Shankar received a warm welcome at the first meeting of the newly reconstituted US Senate India Caucus, at the ornate Mansfield Room of the US Capitol, in the presence of more than two dozen Senators from across the political divide. She said the event was "a tribute to India, to the Indian American community in the United States, to the warm and strong ties between our two countries," she said.
The provisions of the border security bill, which allows massive increase in the fees on categories of H-1B and L1 visas, is discriminatory against the Indian companies, India has said and asked the United States to amend it.
Stating that India is committed to move forward on the deal, India's new Ambassador to the US Meera Shankar said, "This (deal) is very high on our priority. We are conscious of the fact that it was the US government which did the heavy hitting, if I may use a cricketing metaphor to get this deal through. We would very much like to move forward in a concrete way with agreements for building nuclear reactors with US assistance in India."
With the issue of pre-notification on missile tests high on agenda, India and Pakistan held their third round of expert-level talks on nuclear confidence-building measures (CBMs) in New Delhi on Friday.
In the last two years, foreign direct investment from India into the United States has grown more than the FDI from the US into India, excluding portfolio investments, Indian Ambassador to the US Meera Shankar said recently.
"We are interested in a social security dialogue. We have discussed with the US side on the conclusion of what is called a totalisation of agreement by our IT companies," India's new envoy to the US Meera Shankar said at a reception hosted in her honour by the US-India Business Council.
With all 29 under its belt, the BJP became the first political party to achieve such a feat after 40 years in Madhya Pradesh.
India should watch the emergence of the situation and then see how others react, he said adding that Russia has stood by India in very difficult times.
'It will remain my one regret that Lataji didn't sing for me in Meera.'
Playwright and novelist Cyrus Mistry's English novel Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer and K R Meera's Aarachar in Malayalam are among the works that have won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi award for this year.
'To tell you the truth, we did not expect Iris to make such waves, to get so much attention.'
On the occasion of Pandit Ravi Shankar's birth centenary, his biggest fan, Lata Mangeshkar, pays tribute to one of Indian classical music's greatest legends.
India's tough measures against United States diplomats following the arrest of a senior Indian diplomat in New York has impacted US Ambassador Nancy Powell who called off her travel to Nepal after her special privileges were withdrawn.
G Anantha Narayanan on why he chose a pick pocket as the protagonist of his first film Valmiki.
The music of this Dhanush and Meera Jasmine starrer is run of the mill with an overdose of hip hop beats.
'Amitabh practised Rang Barse well; the singing, movements, everything. And he got the inflections perfectly.'
'I've never allowed success to go to my head.' 'I've seen many artistes fall because of their pride.'
A day before Ambassador Meera Shankar was to return home after completing her tenure in the US in the summer of 2011, her maid, without informing anyone, left her official residence on the outskirts of the city never to return.
Music composer Ravindra Jain passed away into the ages on Friday, October 9, in Mumbai. Lata Mangeshkar, who sang some beautiful songs for him, pays rich tribute.
We list down some of the memorable performances as historical figures.
Bollywood stars celebrate Father's Day with adorable pictures of their papas.
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Shiva's fans will be disappointed as the film has nothing new to offer.
Despite its faults, Damaal Dumeel is engaging in parts.
Rediff.com takes a look at some cases from the recent past where the courts awarded the capital punishment for horrific crimes that fall under the rarest of rare category.
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