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In the end, the winner takes it all, and Washington, which once shunned Narendra Modi, has rolled out a charm offensive to court the new leadership in Delhi and set an ambitious target of scaling up India-US bilateral trade five-fold to $500 billion.

Ending a nine-year chill with the man who is set to be the leader of the world’s largest democracy, US President Barack Obama has congratulated the prime minister-elect Narendra Modi on his party’s “historic victory” in India’s parliamentary elections and invited him to visit Washington.

India and the United States are today positioned to embark on a more closely collaborative path. The world the two nations seek does look similar in the big picture: with greater prosperity, more freedom, market economics, rule based regimes, and pluralistic societies. At a more practical level, this is being translated into ground reality.

As the great Indian summer sets in and the carnival chatter of elections envelops the air, the US is determined to leave the chill in bilateral ties behind through a …

Defying the sceptics’ chant about the India-US relations plateauing and slipping into a lacklustre phase, the two countries are poised for wide-ranging discussions, which seek to revitalise their strategic and …

WASHINGTON: The new normal in India-US relations is no longer a rhetorical flourish; it’s the all-too-real real context of the current play of India-US relations that will frame Prime Minister …

NEW YORK: On a crisp bright day in New York, the seeds of a rapprochement between the two sworn rivals were sown quietly, amid cautious hopes that the US and …

WASHINGTON: The landmark nuclear deal, that transformed relations between India and the US, may take some more time to fructify, but defence ties are on an upswing and may well …