Obama India Visit

President Barack Obama will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Bali on November 18 on the sidelines of the East Asia summit, a top White House presidential aide said today. The two leaders who are meeting for the first time in about a year, are expected to review the progress of the bilateral ties since Obama's visit to India last November; besides discussing a wid...

Pakistan Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani called off, at the eleventh hour, his planned visit to the US after President Barack Obama refused to meet him on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session, a media report said here today.

When Michelle Obama visited Mumbai, her dance with school children provided a dream photo-op. Hillary Clinton didn't join dancers in Chennai today, but she was very much the star of the show.

Chef, author and restaurateur Vikas Khanna was recently in Mumbai for a short but important visit -- he was researching for the third part of his seven-part film series, Holy Kitchen. The series explores the link between food and Indian religions. The first part, True Business, on Sikhism and the langar, a free food service premised on the notion of seva, was release...

With spiraling health care costs a cause of concern in America, US President Barack Obama today pushed for an affordable health care arguing that he would not like his countrymen to travel to countries like India and Mexico for cheaper treatment."My preference would be that you don't have to travel to Mexico or India to get cheap health care. I'd l...

The multi-agency security deployed for the cricket World Cup final was "unprecedented" in the history of Mumbai, surpassing even the stringent cover during US President Barack Obama's two-day visit last year, a top official said Tuesday."The multi-tier security was necessitated in view of the huge number of VVIPs, including Indian President Pratibh...