India to sign key nuclear treaty

Ahead of the US President Barack Obama's visit, sources say, that India is expected to sign a crucial International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA) treaty called the Convention on Supplementary Compensation(CSC) for Nuclear Damage.This will get India access to  international funds in case of a nuclear accident, though it also lays out liability nor...

With just a couple of weeks to go for US President Barack Obama's India visit, government sources are playing down the expectations. The contrast with the George Bush visit is all too stark. Bush may have been controversial in his own country, but he delivered the nuclear deal. In comparison, there is no one big ticket item on the Obama trip.New De...

The visit of a US President always gets the government on its toes and with just two weeks left before president Obama touches down in India, one would expect the pomp and show to start by now. But where's the buzz in the corridors of power? Comparing it to George Bush's visit four years ago seems like Obama isn't getting quite the same attention a...

Although the Mumbai police claim to have not got the fixed date for President Barack Obama's visit. This is what Mumbai will have to endure when the President comes calling. Top hotel rooms have been booked across the city: 570 rooms in Taj Mahal Palace, 125 rooms in Taj President and 90 rooms each in The Oberoi/The Grand Hyatt/ITC Grand Marat...

Ahead of US President Barack Obama's visit, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has undertaken the road repair work from the city airport to suburban Bandra and in some parts of south Mumbai."We have undertaken repair work on probable stretches where the President will drive from," said a senior civic official.The stretches include Mumbai ...

Ahead of US President Barack Obama's visit, intelligence inputs indicate that there are attempts to launch fidayeen attacks in the Valley.Intercepts and intelligence inputs indicate increased attempts to launch fidayeen attacks and Thursday's attack in Srinagar was indicative of such strategy.Intelligence agencies believe that the att...

Upset over reports that US President Barack Obama may skip Golden Temple during his India visit, a Sikh group in Washington on Thursday asked the community members to campaign through Twitter and Facebook accounts of the White House for his visit to Sikhism's holiest.United Sikhs also urged Obama not to cancel his visit to Golden Temple. "The Presi...

Amid reports that President Barack Obama has dropped plans to visit the Golden temple in Amritsar to avoid wearing a headscarf that could make him look like a Muslim, the White House has stressed his schedule isn't "finalised.""We have not finalised the schedule for Asia," press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Wednesday on Air Force One. "Loo...

US President Barack Obama would travel to Pakistan next year but not make a stopover there during his November trip to Asia including India, the White House has said.Obama conveyed this to a visiting delegation from Pakistan, who are in Washington to participate in the US-Pak Strategic Dialogue, it said in a statement.The visiting Pakistani delegat...

It's all about the optics. Last year, a photograph of US President Barack Obama bowing to Japan's emperor on a visit to Japan incensed critics.Some went as far as accusing Obama of weak foreign policy by not standing tall when representing America overseas.In 2006, pictures of Obama dressed as a Somali elder on a visit to Africa were plastered on c...

US President Barack Obama, who is set to visit India early next month, may not visit Amritsar as earlier planned.Sources say Amritsar posed logistical problems, though New Delhi has no official word on it yet.The US President was to visit Amritsar on November 7, a day after arriving in Mumbai for a four-day visit.Meanwhile, according to some unconf...

US President Barack Obama is looking forward to visiting India in early November and first lady Michelle is excited about the trip.