Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accepted US President Barack Obama's invitation for a meeting in late September and the dates are being finalised.
This would be the first visit of a top American diplomat to India after Narendra Modi was sworn in as the country's Prime Minister this week.
Mr Obama recently made a four-hour long surprise visit to Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan.
In the end it just took a phone call from President Barack Obama to Narendra Modi with an invitation to visit Washington to reset a US policy that had shunned India's next prime minister for over a decade.
The United States swiftly courted India's future prime minister Narendra Modi on Friday, saying the victorious Hindu nationalist would be welcome to visit despite a long-standing visa ban.
A lonely Barack Obama has said he feels abandoned after wife Michelle and daughters have left for a China visit, leaving him "stuck with two dogs".
A top Obama administration official will travel to India next week to broaden and deepen Indo-US ties following a brief standoff over the Devyani Khobragade affair.
A top Obama administration diplomat is travelling to India next week to hold talks with Indian officials in New Delhi, and the private and corporate sector in Bangalore.
Visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in New Delhi on Saturday he no longer "trusts" the United States.
US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh today, who is visiting the city to hold high-level consultations with the top American officials.
US President Barack Obama will visit ArcelorMittal's Cleveland plant in Ohio, which recently completed 100 years of making steel.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is on a visit to Washington, today said US President Barack Obama raised the Mumbai terror attacks and terror mastermind Hafiz Saeed during their talks at White House.
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