US President Barack Obama made a strong appeal for religious freedom at a town hall-style meeting in Delhi on Tuesday, weighing in on one of India's most controversial topics as he wound up a three-day visit.
India and the United States have a mature relationship and can survive differences, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told NDTV at the World Economic Forum in Davos, ahead of US President Obama's visit to India.
Ahead of US President Barack Obama's visit to India, Pakistan made an attempt to introduce the Kashmir issue again. The US President, it said, should "take up the issue" of the violence at the border "in which many innocent Pakistanis and Kashmiris have been martyred."
Three Democratic lawmakers, including the lone Indian-American Congressman Ami Bera, whose parents moved to the US from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat in the 1950s, will join President Barack Obama on his India trip.
Can India and the US achieve a breakthrough in the nuclear deal during President Barack Obama's visit? Sources say the talks in London of the contact group set up by PM Modi and Obama last September, have not made headway on the key hurdles.
US President Barack Obama - the chief guest of the Republic Day celebrations - and his wife Michelle will arrive in Delhi on Sunday morning. The occasion is a "qualitative reinvigoration" of the ties between the two countries since PM Modi's visit to the US in September 2014, said Syed Akbaruddin, the spokesperson of the ministry of external affairs.
President Barack Obama's itinerary for his three-day visit to India has been finalized, the government said today, and it includes plenty of interactions with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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