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Indian, US armies begin joint exercises in HawaiiIndo-Asian News ServiceSeptember 6, 2006 The Indian Army began its largest joint exercise on foreign soil on Wednesday with 140 officers and soldiers joining their US counterparts in honing their counter-insurgency skills at the Schofield Army Base barracks in Hawaii.'Operation Yudh Abhyas (preparing for war)' will run till September 23, a US embassy official said.It follows a similar exercise held at Chaubhatia near Ranikhet in Uttaranchal in January.During the 18-day exercise, the Indian troops, drawn from the Gurkha Regiment, will test their interoperability with forces from the US 25 Infantry Division in face-to-face...

US President George W Bush finally arrived in India and brought with him plenty of hopes of finalising the nuclear deal. He is accompanied by First Lady Laura Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur were personally present to welcome the guests. Along with them, Indian Ambassador to US Ronen Sen, US Ambassador to India David C Mulford, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran, National Security Adviser MK Narayanan and Science Minister Kapil Sibal were also present. The two leaders had an animated conversation after which Bush was led to a convoy that...

India will be looking for a "political push" on issues such as cooperation in civilian nuclear energy, economic ties as well as defence and security matters during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's talks with U S President George W Bush in Washington next week. Official sources today spoke of "very real positive changes" in the relations between the two countries during the past one year but acknowledged Washington's disquiet over the resolution moved by India and other G-4 countries for an expansion of the U N Security Council. The possibility that the US may oppose the resolution in the UN is...

The courtship between the world's most powerful and most populous democracies is in full swing, with a new international poll showing that at a time when anti-Americanism has spread across the globe more people in India have a positive view of the United States than in any other nation surveyed. The poll by the Pew Global Attitudes Project underscores the popular good will the U.S. enjoys in India, the only established democracy in a vast region stretching from Jordan to China. It also spurs a larger question: How long will it be before the courtship between India and the U.S....