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Biden as Obama's VP: Why India can breathe easy
Rediff India Abroad, August 28, 2008

"I am Indian, I am Indian," Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's [Images] running mate Senator Joe Biden exclaimed jokingly. His light-hearted comment was to address India's apprehension over the landmark legislation to provide a massive $7.5 billion economic aid package to Pakistan over five years, unveiled by Biden and his colleague on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Richard Lugar, 'to promote an enhanced strategic partnership with the people of Pakistan'.

US, India natural strategic allies: Democratic Draft Platform
The Indian Express, August 12, 2008

Describing India as America's "natural strategic ally", the Democratic Party Draft Platform for 2008 has suggested that under the Presidency of Barack Obama the US will seek effective collaboration on pressing global issues with all major powers including New Delhi.

US has dramatically improved ties with India: Bush
Rediff India Abroad, August 7, 2008

US President George W Bush on Thursday said in a major speech on his government's Asian policy that the United States under his administration has dramatically turned around Washington-New Delhi ties, citing the landmark Indo-US nuclear deal.

IAEA clears India safeguards agreement
Rediff India Abroad, August 1, 2008

The India-specific safeguards agreement was on Friday approved by the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency by consensus in a key step to implement the Indo-US nuclear deal.

USIBC pledges to have nuke bill fast-tracked in Congress
India Post, July 27, 2008

The US-India Business Council (USIBC) has pledged to energize its US Chamber-sponsored "Coalition for Partnership with India" (StrategicPartnership.org) in response to India's Parliamentary "Vote of Confidence" in favor of moving the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to reach a "safeguards agreement" covering India's atomic power plants - a crucial step towards ending the 35-year technology denial regime that has been imposed against India.

Closing N-deal very difficult now: US Senator
Rediff India Abroad, July 16, 2008

Senator Joseph R Biden, Jr, the chairman of the powerful US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who will be the key player in moving the US-India civilian nuclear agreement forward in Congress if India succeeds in getting in back on the Congressional court expeditiously, says it may be possible to get the deal consummated this year, but that it's going to be in terms of a best-case scenario a photo-finish.

Indian firms have created 30,000 jobs in US: Report
Rediff India Abroad, July 7, 2008

Indian companies, led by the Tata group, Essar and HCL Technologies [Get Quote], among others, have created more than 30,000 jobs and made large investments in the United States, a joint report of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the US India Business Council said.

New Life for the India Nuclear Pact
Washington Post, July 7, 2008

Less than a month ago, unnamed U.S. officials hit the front page of the Financial Times by indicating that the U.S.-India nuclear pact was "almost certainly dead."

NRI push for N-deal
Daily News and Analysis, July 3, 2008

While the government is all set to push through the India-US nuclear deal, the Indian-American community, which played a significant role in getting the 123 Agreement passed in the US Congress, is trying to ensure the deal in both the Congress and the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group (NSG) goes through.

Next steps in the nuclear deal
Rediff India Abroad, July 2, 2008

P Sreenivasan, a former governor who represented India at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, discusses the next steps in the nuclear deal in an eloquent explanation, exclusive to rediff.com

US to remain 'absolutely committed' to BIT with India
The Economic Times, June 26, 2008

Terming the Indo-US relationship as a major factor for the growth and success of the global economy, the Washington has said that it remains "absolutely committed" to a bilateral investment treaty with New Delhi

Rice lauds 'historic' change in Indo-US ties
Hindustan Times, June 19, 2008

Terming the "historic transformation" of the US' ties with the "rising democratic power" India as among its key strategic accomplishments, the Bush administration has said it will enable Washington to advance its "interests and values" in the region in future.

Survey says US still most favoured nation for Indians
The Indian Express, June 14, 2008

The popularity of the United States in India has shot up dramatically since 2002, a period in which Uncle Sam’s image took a beating globally, a survey has said.

'India created more jobs in US than US did here'
Rediff Abroad, June 13, 2008

Taking on critics of outsourcing to India and the alleged loss of American jobs in the process, India's Minister of Commerce and Industry Kamal Nath asserted that Indian investments in the United States in the last two years had created more jobs in the US that American investment in India has.

India, US agree to bridge Doha differences
Hindustan Times, June 13, 2008

Ending their public acrimony, India and the US have agreed to intensify efforts to "narrow the differences and to build on convergences" to find the elusive breakthrough in the Doha round of world trade talks.

Pacific Council, FICCI Host U.S.-India Brainstorming
India West, June 13, 2008

A joint task force met at the Stanford Park Hotel here June 2-3 to thrash out strategies to boost collaborations between the U.S. and India.

N-deal: 'The clock has virtually run out'
Rediff India Abroad, June 12, 2008

While scrupulously eschewing acknowledging publicly that the US-India civilian nuclear deal that lies comatose due to domestic politics in India is all but dead, senior Administration officials have privately said, "The clock has virtually run out," and it's "highly unlikely" that the US Congress will be able to act on it now, thus leaving President Bush sans one major positive foreign policy legacy he was so much hoping for.

US-India nuclear deal dead
Financial Times, June 10, 2008

The historic civil nuclear deal with India that George W. Bush saw as one of his signature foreign policy achievements is almost certainly dead, according to senior US officials.

Experts Affirm Bright Future for Indo-U.S. Ties
India West, June 8, 2008

A distinguished panel of experts provided thoughtful, substantive insights at the India Community Center here into Indo-U.S. relations that suggested that while the future of relations between the world’s oldest democracy and the world’s largest democracy appears to be very bright, it is by no means a given, and continued efforts need to be sustained to ensure the two nations continue to nurture a harmonious and mutually beneficial relationship.

Indian envoy says Indo-US ties to remain on upward trajectory
The Hindu, June 1, 2008

India's relationship with the US has progressed profoundly in the last four years to emerge as a truly strategic partnership and will continue to remain firmly on an upward trajectory, Indian Ambassador Ronen Sen has said.

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