Obama walks a tight-rope following a Chinese warning against meeting the Dalai Lama
Chinese experts on international studies warn that the strengthening of the US-Japanese alliance is targeted at China and would further complicate the nation's security environment.
Five years before Rajiv Gandhi was killed in 1991, the US Central Intelligence Agency had prepared a very detailed and thorough "brief" on what would happen if he is assassinated or makes an "abrupt departure" from the Indian political scene.
'In the past the US has been reluctant to name Pakistan directly in an US-India joint statement.'
'The US-India relationship is in a different league altogether,' Obama administration officials tell Aziz Haniffa/Rediff.com in Washington, DC.
Burns said from an American perspective, 'India and America have a common interest to thwart terrorism in our own regions and globally.'
Case in the US relates to an Airbus Corporate Jet
How do you see India-US relations following the reverses for the Republicans? Will the nuclear deal become a casualty?
China has said it is not against Indo-US relations but they should be within the NPT framework.
'There is no need for suspicion regarding the US-India civil nuclear agreement,' US Ambassador David C Mulford tells the Rediff Chat.
Karnataka governor T N Chaturvedi has said that US universities attract Indian talent. \n
The ongoing ties with the US will help Indians gain political clout in Washington much like the Israeli Jews, Chairman of the Taskforce on Global Strategic Developments K Subrahmanyam said Thursday.
Kerry, a member of the US Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had told him during their meeting on Thursday that India would sign the Fissile Material Control Treaty.
Close on the heels of a US district court ruling against its patent challenge of Pfizer's Lipitor, Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd on Friday said it had entered into an out of court settlement with Cephalon Inc
'I have not made a final decision, but I am leaning very strongly towards supporting the Indo-US nuclear deal right now,'says Congressman Dan Burton in an exclusive interview.
'You cannot bring down a nation by killing a few people. Certainly not in a country like India,' says National Security Adviser M K Narayanan.
Slated to be in India on December 8, Carter would travel to Japan, Bahrain, Israel, Italy and Great Britain before returning to the US on December 16. This is for the first time that an outgoing American Defence Secretary has included India in his itinerary for the final overseas trip.
No theory would ever justify the public humiliation of the acting head of the consulate of a friendly country. Whatever be the eventual solution, grievous damage has been done to her personally and to the relations between the two countries, says Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
Hours before US President Barack Obama's meeting with the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama at the White House, China demanded its immediate cancellation, warning that the unjustified interference in its domestic affairs will cause "great damage" to bilateral ties.
'The book has immense value because it reveals the inner workings of the think-tank which appears to provide facts and insights to Modi, though he himself takes the final decisions and articulates them in his characteristic rhetorical style,' says Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
'We can fight our own battles. Let me make it clear that we are not asking America to help us.' National Security Adviser M K Narayanan in an exclusive interview.
Former external affairs minister Jaswant Singh said President George W Bush is the principal driving force in this regard.
When President Obama lands in New Delhi later this week, this spirit of accommodation must reignite a strategic economic relationship between the two countries.
The perfunctory management of external affairs has left India's foreign policy establishment largely unprepared to manage the consequences of dramatic international developments, says Nitin Pai.
Chidambaram expressed India's discomfort on the immigration issue
The talks come at a time when US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice all set to take over as the next secretary of state and her deputy Stephen Hadley ready to replace her in the wake of the resignation of Colin Powell.
The main focus of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's talks in New Delhi will be the increasingly cordial Indo-US relations.
Indian-American hotelier Sant Singh Chatwal avoided jail time and was sentenced to three years probation and a $500,000 fine on charges of illegally donating thousands of dollars to political campaigns.
With Indo-US relations in its "spring", the two countries should use their resources for common good, science and technology Minister Kapil Sibal said in New Delhi on Thursday.
Welcoming US President George W Bush's second term in the White House, industry bodies on Thursday said it would further strengthen Indo-US trade and economic ties.
China on Friday cautioned foreign countries against hosting the Dalai Lama and interfering in its domestic affairs on the vexed Tibet issue, a day after United States President Barack Obama and the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader appeared together in public for the first time.
Sale of fighter aircraft will harm Indo-US relations, says IAFPE.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and United States President Barack Obama will meet on Sunday, January 25, at Hyderabad House a few hours after the American leader's arrival in New Delhi.
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