Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon will open the 5th US-India High Technology Cooperation Group hosted by the US-India Business Council at the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington DC on February 22.
Pompeo would leave for New Delhi on June 24.
If the US were to look from the east coast across the Atlantic for a country with which it could collaborate, then India would be that country for reasons more than one, Minister for HRD and Communications and IT Kapil Sibal.
Aziz Haniffa reports from Washington, DC, on a summit designed to transform India's education.
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.
Stating that New Delhi has credible evidence that a portion of US aid to Pakistan is being used against India, the Congress party has asked the Obama Administration to have an effective monitoring mechanism of its civilian and military assistance to Islamabad.
Somers said, "Number one, the message has to be that now we are living in a global economy and that a knowledge partnership with India is enabling our American companies team with their Indian partners to remain globally competitive."
Ron Somers, president of the US India Business Council said with the US economy emerging from a devastating global recession, it was fortunate for the country to have India as a "vigorous trading partner".
In a bid to restore investors' confidence after Mumbai terror attacks, the US-India Business Council has presented an optimistic assessment of the security situation in India, saying it is committed to doing trade with the country.
"India has been a fantastic market" for the $40 billion PepsiCo, Indra K Nooyi, chairman and CEO said, and this is the feedback she has received from other CEOs of American companies doing business in India.
With billions of dollars in military technology agreements likely to be made with the United States-India nuclear deal going through, there's an excited buzz among American companies.
If confirmation was required that the Indo-US nuclear deal has opened doors for business between the two countries, it is here.
India's biotech industry has a vast potential for bilateral cooperation with US firms for collaborative research, technology trade, licensing and distribution.\n\n\n\n
"We are very clear it is an absolute must in the bouquet of energy resources which have to be accessed," Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma told a gathering of top US c corporate leaders and those from the US government at the annual summit of the US India Business Council (USIBC).
Indian companies, led by the Tata group, Essar and HCL Technologies, among others, have created more than 30,000 jobs and made large investments in the United States, a joint report of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the US India Business Council said.
The USIBC said that this was 'a significant step that puts decades of Cold War baggage behind the world's two largest democracy', and that in achieving 'consensus' on this 'key bilateral agreement', it held out the promise 'to bolster the US and India as reliable partners for the long future in the sensitive areas of defence and security trade'.
Besides addressing a high-level meeting of the US-India Business Council at Washington on June 17, Sharma will hold discussions with the US secretary of state Hillary Clinton. During his three-day engagements, the commerce and industry minister would meet US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and US trade representative Ronald Kirk.
Such a partnership between the two countries, after the civilian nuclear deal, is essential to jointly meet the challenges of climate change, prime minister's special envoy on climate change Shyam Saran told a meeting of US corporate leaders organised by the US India Business Council. USIBC had played a significant role in the passage of the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal, despite tough hurdles.
The US India Business Council said India's 2010-11 Budget defined important steps aimed at fuelling growth and signaled that the global recession of 2008-2009 is already a remnant of the past for it.
Vice-President Cheney to address US-India Business Council.
Already India is a global leader in high technology. The nuclear deal will end India's nuclear isolation and enable India to become a global champion of the nuclear renaissance, combating global climate change, USIBC President Ron Somers said.
"Independence means if government has done something wrong, you say it's wrong. But at the same time, you should have courage when the government is doing the right thing every day. You have to also say that," he Gautam Adani was quoted as saying by FT.
As a board member, he will help USIBC provide strategic direction to US and Indian firms seeking bilateral investment opportunities and partnerships.
Despite the devastating terror attack on Mumbai, the US-India Business Council has decided to take its largest ever trade delegation of American commercial nuclear executives to India in January next year.
The lawmakers lacked imagination, he said.
US-India Business Council President Nisha Biswal believes once the economic activity and demand resumes, India could hold the potential for diversification of supply chains and manufacturing.
The meetings with the investors at New York, according to sources, are being organised by the US-India Business Council. The USIBC is the premier business advocacy organization representing America's top companies investing in India, joined by global Indian companies, promoting economic reforms with an aim to deepen trade and strengthen commercial ties.
'When you look at the United States-India partnership and the relationship, this is a good news story.'
India's burgeoning entertainment industry loses as much as $ 4 billion and 800,000 direct jobs each year due to counterfeiting and piracy, a latest study says. The study -- The effects of counterfeiting & piracy on India's entertainment industry -- was prepared by Ernst & Young India. It was commissioned as part of the USIBC-FICCI Bollywood-Hollywood Initiative, which promotes the sustainable growth & convergence underway between the entertainment industries of the US & India
Counterfeiting and piracy cost India' s entertainment industry a whopping Rs 16,000 crore (Rs 160 billion) besides gobbling up more than 8 lakh direct jobs every year.
India will be among the top five aviation markets in the world - both in terms of size and scale in the next five years, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said.
The US-India Business Council has hailed American cooperation in India's first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-I saying it marks the beginning of a new era of trust and partnership between the two countrys in the field of space exploration.
The diplomat made the remarks replying to lawmakers' questions on New Delhi abstaining from several UN vote on Russian aggression against Ukraine.
Indian mangoes are all set to tickle the taste buds of Americans with the Bush administration clearing the way for exports to the US this harvest season, which would give farmers here access to the global market.
In an interactive session with PBS television's talk show host Charlie Rose at the 33rd anniversary summit of the US-India Business Council, Nath said, "Indian investment in the United States in the last two years is more than the US investment in India in the last two years, and India has created more jobs in the US than the US has created in India."
The Left Front government led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal got tributes from the US-India Business Council.
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