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President Bush welcomes Indian Prime Minister Manmohan to the White House. There is an official arrival ceremony, later they hold talks in the Oval Office and give joint press availability. They then met with US India chief executive officer forum members in the Blue Room. They are due to dine together this evening On Saturday Vice President Dick Cheney completed his annual physical at which it was discovered that he has a mild case of esophagitis and some small dilation of the arteries behind both knees. Australian Prime Minister John Howard is currently on a visit to Washington he attended...

PV: The Chanakya of Indian politics Press Trust Of India IST Updated: Thursday, December 23, 2004 at 1652 hours IST New Delhi, December 23: A statesman, scholar and linguist Pamulaparti Venkata Narasimha Rao will be remembered for several firsts to his credit during an eventful five years as Prime Minister in the last decade that saw India take a new economic path, the demolition of the controversial Babri Masjid and the rise of the saffron forces. A hardcore congressman, Rao, who died at the age of 83, was the first Prime Minister from the South, the first from outside Nehru-Gandhi...