Obama Mumbai Visit

Mumbai's most popular temple is allegedly on the hit-list for terrorists tasked to strike before President Barack Obama leaves India on January 27.

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is on a visit to Washington, today said US President Barack Obama raised the Mumbai terror attacks and terror mastermind Hafiz Saeed during their talks at White House.

The US today joined India in condemning the terror strike in Jammu and Kashmir, with the two countries vowing to consolidate their efforts to eliminate terrorist safe havens and calling on Pakistan to bring to justice the perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai attack.

The man who stood up to US Secret Service Agents and refused to take orders from them when US President Barack Obama visited India in November 2010, will be serving as Director General of Police (DGP) of the state for the next three years.

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 ...

Barely an hour before US President Barack Obama arrived in Mumbai earlier this month, the city police went into a tizzy, as a packet containing 100 bullets went missing from a combat vehicle posted outside the US consulate near Mani Bhavan. Obama was to visit the venue later that day.According to police sources, on November 6, an official from the ...

"I urge you, today, to ask my husband some tough questions, alright?"And with that, amidst a thunderous applause, Michelle Obama introduced the audience to her husband, the President of the United States, Barack Obama. As he briskly made his way to the dais, smiled and greeted his wife with a kiss on the cheek, he already had the crowd on his side....

"Spectacular!" that's what visiting US President Barack Obama said about the Humayun's Tomb as he and his wife Michelle toured the 450-year-old Mughal monument soon after landing in Delhi.The couple spent half an hour at the monument enquiring about the architecture and how the world heritage site is being conserved.Obama, who kicked off his engage...

At a panel discussion last week on relations between India and the United States, Strobe Talbott, the former American diplomat, told an audience of Indian business leaders that he had learned a valuable lesson about India: Do not hyphenate it. As in Indo-Pak. (Or, in a close cousin of a hyphen, as in Chindia.) The audience smiled at his epiphany: I...

When US President Barack Obama was talking serious business with industry honchos this evening, his wife Michelle interacted with differently-abled children at the library of Mumbai University and danced with them to the tunes of a hit number from Aaamir Khan-starrer "Rang De Basanti".During her half-hour interaction, Michelle spoke to the kids and...

BJP today voiced disappointment over US President Barack Obama making no direct reference to terror emanating from Pakistan in his first speech on arrival in Mumbai, saying his words were not backed with action and intent.(Watch: President Obama's speech at 26/11 memorial)     "It was the first address by the US President at a p...

President Obama arrived in this teeming financial capital on Saturday morning for a 10-day, four-nation swing through Asia that will put a heavy emphasis on opening markets to American goods and creating jobs at home. (Watch: Obama lands in Mumbai)But he began on a sombre and symbolic note, by paying respects to the victims of the 2008 terrorist ...

US President Barack Obama is on a four day presidential visit to India, his longest overseas visit as the President. The highlights of his first day here are:US President Barack Obama lands at the Mumbai Airport Air Force One touches down at 12:50 pm Barack and Michelle Obama greeted by Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan, Minister-in-waiting Salman Khursh...

Here's the full text of the White House press briefing on US President Barack Obama's India visit:November 6, 2010The White HouseOffice of the Press SecretaryPress briefing by National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, Deputy National Security Advisor  For International Economic Affairs Mike Froman, Deputy National Security Advisor  For Strat...

Mumbai's most popular temple is allegedly on the hit-list for terrorists tasked to strike before President Barack Obama leaves India on January 27.

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is on a visit to Washington, today said US President Barack Obama raised the Mumbai terror attacks and terror mastermind Hafiz Saeed during their talks at White House.

The US today joined India in condemning the terror strike in Jammu and Kashmir, with the two countries vowing to consolidate their efforts to eliminate terrorist safe havens and calling on Pakistan to bring to justice the perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai attack.

The man who stood up to US Secret Service Agents and refused to take orders from them when US President Barack Obama visited India in November 2010, will be serving as Director General of Police (DGP) of the state for the next three years.

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 ...

Barely an hour before US President Barack Obama arrived in Mumbai earlier this month, the city police went into a tizzy, as a packet containing 100 bullets went missing from a combat vehicle posted outside the US consulate near Mani Bhavan. Obama was to visit the venue later that day.According to police sources, on November 6, an official from the ...

"I urge you, today, to ask my husband some tough questions, alright?"And with that, amidst a thunderous applause, Michelle Obama introduced the audience to her husband, the President of the United States, Barack Obama. As he briskly made his way to the dais, smiled and greeted his wife with a kiss on the cheek, he already had the crowd on his side....

"Spectacular!" that's what visiting US President Barack Obama said about the Humayun's Tomb as he and his wife Michelle toured the 450-year-old Mughal monument soon after landing in Delhi.The couple spent half an hour at the monument enquiring about the architecture and how the world heritage site is being conserved.Obama, who kicked off his engage...

At a panel discussion last week on relations between India and the United States, Strobe Talbott, the former American diplomat, told an audience of Indian business leaders that he had learned a valuable lesson about India: Do not hyphenate it. As in Indo-Pak. (Or, in a close cousin of a hyphen, as in Chindia.) The audience smiled at his epiphany: I...

When US President Barack Obama was talking serious business with industry honchos this evening, his wife Michelle interacted with differently-abled children at the library of Mumbai University and danced with them to the tunes of a hit number from Aaamir Khan-starrer "Rang De Basanti".During her half-hour interaction, Michelle spoke to the kids and...

BJP today voiced disappointment over US President Barack Obama making no direct reference to terror emanating from Pakistan in his first speech on arrival in Mumbai, saying his words were not backed with action and intent.(Watch: President Obama's speech at 26/11 memorial)     "It was the first address by the US President at a p...

President Obama arrived in this teeming financial capital on Saturday morning for a 10-day, four-nation swing through Asia that will put a heavy emphasis on opening markets to American goods and creating jobs at home. (Watch: Obama lands in Mumbai)But he began on a sombre and symbolic note, by paying respects to the victims of the 2008 terrorist ...

US President Barack Obama is on a four day presidential visit to India, his longest overseas visit as the President. The highlights of his first day here are:US President Barack Obama lands at the Mumbai Airport Air Force One touches down at 12:50 pm Barack and Michelle Obama greeted by Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan, Minister-in-waiting Salman Khursh...

Here's the full text of the White House press briefing on US President Barack Obama's India visit:November 6, 2010The White HouseOffice of the Press SecretaryPress briefing by National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, Deputy National Security Advisor  For International Economic Affairs Mike Froman, Deputy National Security Advisor  For Strat...