The UN Security Council has endorsed a multi-national force to help maintain peace in the island.
The proposed immigration Bill to legalise millions of illegal workers in the United States has suffered a serious setback after a Democratic-led effort to speed up its passage in the Senate failed.
Answering questions on the Travel Pool in Heilingendamm, Germany, Bush said that the ideal situation would be to see all terrorists routed out of Pakistan.
Addressing a join press conference with British PM Gordon Brown, US President Bush said that failure in Iran would send a message to the world that the US cannot be counted upon. He added that it was important to succeed in Iraq to defeat the Al Qaeda and to thwart Iran's 'ambitions' of acquiring nuclear weapons. Bush and Gordon both dismissed speculation that the relationship between the two was not as 'special' as that between Bush and former British PM Tony Blair.
With this, the total cost of the worldwide war on terror and reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan has crossed $300 billion since 9/11.
The US budget proposals unveiled by President George W Bush includes $564 million in aid for South Asia, the bulk of it for Pakistan and Afghanistan and a comparatively miniscule amount for India.
The document describes India as a growing centre of power with which Washington has common strategic interests.
'It is also a strategic decision to line up India against China,' Senator Hagel said.
The President's Volunteer Service Award is the highest honour given in recognition of those who contributed to help those in need.
The U.S. economy is also interdependent and in many ways dependent. Especially on oil. In a week where the Nymex price for a barrel of crude reached $111 this really should be apparent. Yet this does not seem to have deterred the recklessness driving the U.S. fiscal outlook.
If the benchmarks are being met, troops would begin coming home no later than October one, with a goal of completing the troop pullout by April 1, 2008.
A trial date has been set for June 26.
An Indian student in the United States has been arrested for posting violent messages on an Internet bulletin board urging readers to kill President George W Bush and his family.
Bush said he would discuss it with the visiting Chinese premier.
India and the US on Monday signed an agreement for New Delhi's participation in the prestigious $950 million FutureGen project
Anil Kakodkar will also discuss with IAEA representatives an Additional Protocol.
Bush once again warned lawmakers that he will veto any bill that did not come to him in a clean fashion.
Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran, who will be in Washington from March 28 to March 31, will hold bilateral discussions with his US counterpart, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns.
Indian Ambassador Ronen Sen has said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's prediction to President George W Bush at their first meeting that 'the best was yet to come' in Indo-US relations 'were prophetic', but that even he could not have imagined it to have fostered to the extent it has.
Earlier in the day, Chandrika Kumaratunga had sacked three senior ministers.
The possession of nuclear weapons by India and Pakistan and their ability to escape international punishment because of their strategic value to the US and its allies have weakened the taboo against obtaining nuclear arms, the WSJ reported.
Indian companies stole the show at the annual Pacific Area Writers Travel Association Awards at the ITB Berlin tourism fair in Berlin on Friday, with hospitality majors, ITC hotels, The Taj Group of Hotels and Kingfisher Airlines winning major honour
'The US motivations are far from clear, but there is a balance of rights and obligations in the Indo-US deal.'
Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid M Kasuri saw him off at the airport at the Chaklala Defence Airbase in Rawalpindi.
India will decide what type of arms and weapons it requires in its defence system.
The deal nearly did not happen but for a last-minute intervention by the American President.
He said Musharraf brought up the issue of Pakistan's energy needs during their talks and added the US Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman would be visiting Pakistan soon for discussions
The US President was received by Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz when he arrived in his limousine from\nthe highly-guarded US embassy, where he reportedly rested last night along with wife Laura Bush
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