The Obama visit blog: What world media is saying
United States President Barack Obama will be in India on November 6 for his longest State visit yet. Apart from our own coverage, we provide you this one-stop blog of what the world media is saying about the visit and its significance 'Are we going to fight Pakistan with the US'
Raman Puri asks hard questions about India-US defense ties Tech co-op with US can revolutionise governance'
Sam Pitroda, chairman of India's knowledge commission and advisor to the Indian prime minister on public information infrastructure and innovations, is designing a program to democratise information in governance. The open government initiative between India and United States aims to help poor people access information for their better and faster development. Left to protest against Obama visit on Nov 8
The Left parties, consisting of the Communist Party of India-Marxist, CPI, All India Forward Bloc and the Revolutionary Socialist Party issued a press statement on Friday on the eve of United States President Barack Obama's upcoming visit to India. What Obama MUST experience in Mumbai
Mumbai junkie and author of Mumbai Fables Gyan Prakash suggests how the US President can experience the quintessential Mumbai Obama's daughters to miss out on India trip
While First Lady Michelle will accompany Barack Obama during his India trip, school will prevent their daughters Sasha and Malia from visiting the country along with their parents. Youth prepare Manmohan-Obama joint statement
Indian and American youngsters came together on Tuesday at Mumbai's Gateway House for a dialogue about American President Barack Obama's visit to India. Obama visit blog: What the world media is saying
United States President Barack Obama will be in India on November 6 for his longest State visit yet. Apart from our own coverage, we provide you this one-stop blog of what the world media is saying about the visit and its significance 'I don't think Obama's visit will be a success'
'If India does not succeed in making the US recognise the combined threat of the China-Pakistan alliance, there is nothing left in the visit,' says Brajesh Mishra, the former National Security Adviser. Why sparks are flying ahead of Obama's India trip
With just days to go before United States President Barack Obama arrives in India, a major controversy has erupted over American terror suspect David Coleman Headley, who had allegedly surveyed locations in Mumbai that were targeted by the 10 Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists on November 26, 2008. No Hillary, still Obama's delegation packs a punch
Prominent among those accompanying the US president would include Tom Donilon, the new national security advisor; the commerce secretary, Gary Locke; the agriculture secretary, Tom Vilsack; and Raj Shah, administrator of USAID Obama to celebrate Diwali with school kids
Obama would celebrate the festival of lights with children in Mumbai. But Diwali celebrations would not commence until he pays homage to the victims of 26/11 on November 6 at the Taj Hotel -- which was the "centerpiece" of the 2008 terror attacks. Who will be Obama's minister-in-waiting?
PMO sources say that in the event of a high profile visit, it is customary to nominate a cabinet minister as the minister-in-waiting for the visiting head of state to signal that the host country attaches a great deal of significance to the visit and protocol in many areas requires it to be a cabinet minister. At the same time it is also established convention that the minister-in-waiting should not be too senior. 'India disappointed with info on Headley'
Home Secretary G K Pillai talks to rediff.com's about the lack of information from the United States on Lashkar operative David Headley

Cost of Obama's Delhi trip: Rs 15 lakh per hour
United States President Barack Obama's two-day stay in Delhi will be a boon for New Delhi's luxury hotels, depending on who bears his contingent's bills. Obamania hits Delhi, but all's quiet at Rajghat
New Delhi may be gearing up for United States President Barack Obama's visit, but Rajghat will welcome him just like any other guest. Time to stand with the Indian polity, Mr Obama
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said the visit would be historic if Obama can 'correct the drift and reinvigorate what will be a critical global collaboration'. Obama shouldn't lean on India to placate Pak, says think tank
When President Obama has a candid conversation with Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh over Afghanistan, "the President ought to refrain from asking India--as many in his administration urge him--how it can placate the Pakistan Army in order to evoke better counterterrorism cooperation from it." Obama's advance team moves into Mumbai's Taj hotel
Vaihayasi Pande Daniel comes across US President Barack Obama's advance team in the sleepy backlanes of Colaba in Mumbai. 'Obama should back India's UNSC bid during visit'
United States Barack President Obama during his visit to India should do something big, like declaring Washington's support for India's bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. No visitors inside Parliament for Obama's address
Barring special invitees and former members of Parliament, no visitors would be allowed inside Parliament when American President Barack Obama addresses MPs on the evening of November 8. Ahead of India visit, Obama speaks to Zardari
On the eve of his three-day visit to India, President Obama called Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to assure the Pakistani leader that he will visit Pakistan in 2011.

'US should publicly expose Pak's anti-India activities'
The US should 'publicly expose' Pakistan whenever it fails to prevent infiltration across the Line of Control with India and shut down jihadi training operations, a US think-tank has said. Mumbai cops, US security officials meet ahead of Obama visit
Ahead of US President Barack Obama's arrival in Mumbai, officials of the Maharashtra home department and city police held another closed-door meeting on Tuesday with American officials over the security arrangements. Clinton will not accompany Obama to India
The United States secretary of state will not be part of the Presidential delegation when Barack Obama visits India in November. Obama won't rake up Kashmir issue, says US
The US has reiterated that Kashmir is a bilateral issue to be resolved between New Delhi and Islamabad.

White House, Maha Home officials likely to meet on Friday
A team of White House officials are likely to meet their counterparts in the Maharashtra Home Ministry on Friday to review security and other issues ahead of US President Barack Obama's visit. Show Obama the benign face of Indian Islam
Obama's agenda has been prepared by the bureaucratic establishments in the two countries without imagination, without a sense of history, without understanding the benign face of Indian Islam. India's future lies in its hands not in America's
Noting that the United States can only contribute marginally to India's success or failure, a report prepared by the Washington-based think tank said it is in fact the actions of Indians at home and abroad that will determine which path India takes. Defence deals during Obama's visit unlikely: Antony
India and the United States are unlikely to wrap up any defence deals during the high-profile visit of President Barack Obama, Defence Minister A K Antony indicated on Monday. Waiting for President Obama, and the baby
Sheela Bhatt finds out how the India-US relationship's initial zing has been replaced by a calmer, matured relationship.

India is trying to underplay Obama's visit
Sources in the Indian government have made it clear that there is not going to be any 'big bang' news to be expected from United States President Barack Obama's forthcoming visit to India in November.

Speak to Obama about visit to Golden Temple, PM told
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Saturday requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to intervene personally at the highest level of the United States administration to ensure that United States President Barack Obama visits the Golden Temple in Amritsar. 560 rooms in Taj Mahal Hotel booked for Obama's visit
Most of the rooms at the top luxury hotels in Mumbai, including the Taj and Trident have been booked for United States President Barack Obama's visit next month.

Why Obama needs to visit the Golden Temple
United States President Barack Obama needs to rise above the politics of fear and visit the Golden Temple in Amritsar because the religious site stands for many of the same ideals that America holds so dear 7 in 10 Indians have confidence in Obama
When US President Barack Obama travels to India next month, he will be visiting a country where both he and America are immensely popular . Mumbai's roads getting repaired for Obama's visit
Ahead of US President Barack Obama's visit, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has undertaken road repair work from the airport to suburban Bandra and in some parts of south Mumbai.

Sikhs hook on to Twitter, FB to bring Obama to Punjab
Upset over reports that US President Barack Obama may skip the Golden Temple during his India visit, a Sikh group in Washington on Thursday asked community members to campaign through Twitter and Facebook accounts of the White House for his visit to Sikhism's holiest shrine. 'Obama would love to spend more time in India, but...'
US President Barack Obama's visit to India next month would primarily focus on Mumbai and New Delhi, the White House has said. Obama to visit Pakistan in 2011
United States 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.

What India must expect from Obama's visit
We should keep in mind that a deeper and reasonably balanced relationship with the US is in India's interest, says former foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal. What India must expect from Obama's visit
We should keep in mind that a deeper and reasonably balanced relationship with the US is in India's interest, says former foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal. Headley issue may spoil Obama's party in India
The Indian establishment may get a leverage while talking to American officials on bilateral efforts of counter-terrorism while the media splashes scary details about what Headley did in India, points out Sheela Bhatt. 'Obama can wear a baseball cap in Golden Temple'
Sikh Americans, who were ecstatic that United States President Barack Obama will make a stopover in Amritsar and visit the Golden Temple, are still hopeful about him doing so despite rumours that he may forego this visit . The message from Obama's no show in Amritsar
A security expert in New Delh said, along with the issue of headscarf, even the security angle must be behind the cancellation.

Mapped: The way forward for India-US relations
former US deputy secretary of state Richard L Armitage and former under secretary of state for political affairs R Nicholas Burns authored a document, which hopes to be the blueprint for future US-India relations. Obama may not visit Amritsar during India trip
United States President Barack Obama will not travel to Amritsar during his visit to India in November due to 'logistic' issues, informed sources said.

'Time ripe for Obama to back India's UNSC bid'
Karl F Inderfurth, former United States assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs in the Clinton administration said that President Barack Obama should back India's candidacy for a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council. Here's what Obama and Dr Singh should do
A new report has urged, as a top priority, that the US unambiguously and unequivocally endorse New Delhi's bid for a permanent seat in the United Nations. Why there will be no defence deals during Obama's visit
Defence Minister A K Antony, during his visit to Washington, DC, in September, bluntly told US Defence Secretary Robert Gates that India would not sign the agreements which Washington calls the 'foundation' for transferring high-tech communication equipment to India.

What US President Obama will do in India
Barack Obama's trip to India next month would be his longest stay overseas in a country as US President, which reflects the importance he attaches to building strategic relationship between the two largest democratic countries of the world.

Why India is still bird in the bush for America
Ahead of US President Barack Obama's visit to India in November, B Raman talks about how the US will ultimately need both China and India to maintain its economic prosperity. Obama may back India's permanent UNSC membership bid
US officials want President Barack Obama to support India as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, telling him itcould make his India visit truly historic, reveals Aziz Haniffa.

Obama visit: India may offer deals, US strategic help
What will India offer the Americans? What will the Americans offer India? Nikhil Lakshman glances at the smoke signals for next month's Obama visit. India awaits Obama's visit with great hope'
We look forward to President Obama's visit to India next month with great hope and optimism, said Meera Shankar, Indian envoy to the US. Obama's overnight stay in Mumbai will be a tribute
"President's trip will take stock of the advancement of the relationship between the two countries," a senior administration official told reporters.

'Obama won't mention Kashmir during India visit'
Howard B Schaffer pinpoints the reasons behind the United States's reluctance to get involved in the Kashmir imbroglio. 'Obama won't mention Kashmir during India visit'
Howard B Schaffer pinpoints the reasons behind the United States's reluctance to get involved in the Kashmir imbroglio. Obama visit won't influence amendments in N-law: India
The question of amendments is never on the cards. We have explained to them (the US) the circumstances in which we had to go through (with) the bill and we have to work within the parameters of the legislation," External Affairs Minister S M Krishna said . US Chamber-White House tussle may block Obama's Mumbai visit
The ongoing war of words between Barack Obama administration and United States Chamber of Commerce on the alleged use of foreign money by the latter to campaign against Democratic Party in the November mid-term polls could jeopardise an event of President Obama in Mumbai.

Is Michelle the reason for Obama's Amritsar visit?
According to a report in the Chicago Tribune, Michelle Obama's uncle Nomenee Robinson served in Punjab in 1961 as a volunteer of Peace Corps.