Defence Ties With India Closest Ever: Ashton Carter

Days ahead of his visit to India, US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter today said that the defence relationship between the world's two largest democracies has never been as close it is now.

Outgoing US President Barack Obama at the beginning of his term had expressed his desire to visit Pakistan, but could not do so because of a "complicated relationship" with the country, the White House said today.

The recent comment made by a Pakistani envoy visiting the United States that the outgoing American President Barack Obama is now just a "guest" at the White House is "ridiculous", the US has said.

The latest batch of emails released by WikiLeaks from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta gives an insight into the planning done by the Obama administration to ensure a successful visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Silicon Valley in 2015.

US Secretary of State John Kerry, who arrived in India on Monday on a three-day visit, has cancelled his return to Washington scheduled, and will extend his stay in India before leaving for China to join President Barack Obama at the G-20 Summit.

President Barack Obama will travel to Dallas on Tuesday and address an interfaith service in memory of five police officers shot dead during a protest decrying police killings of black men last week.

US President Barack Obama today said he might visit India next year if invited for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES).

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the US provided an "important opportunity" to assess how the Indo-US partnership can help address global challenges and unleash opportunity in the economic and trade space, a top Obama administration official said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of Indo-US ties has been christened the "Modi Doctrine" by Nisha Desai Biswal, the US' Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia.

Without taking recourse to the old wailing sheet and cribbing to everyone about Islamabad, Modi has devised a mechanism to shape the debate to India's advantage.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's three-day visit to the US this week was "very, very rich and productive" as significant progress was made in wide range of areas from civil nuclear energy to defence and trade, America's top diplomat in New Delhi has said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi completed his 5-nation tour which began with Afghanistan followed by brief visits to Qatar and Switzerland. After a brief stopover om Mexico, PM Modi left for New Delhi today.