The Indian Navy is planning to extend the lease of the two Predator drones which have flown more than 12,000 hours for surveillance across the country including the boundary with China.
United States Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "today's era is not an era of war" statement and said that this was a powerful and necessary idea.
Stating that the 'Indian dream' and the 'American dream' are two sides of the same coin, US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti on Wednesday said that in India, a young tea seller goes on to lead India on a global stage and a Santhali teacher goes on to become the President.
Praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi after he returned from his maiden state visits to the United States and Egypt, Union minister Meenakashi Lekhi on Monday said that the respect and honour the PM received on foreign soil is for the whole nation.
On Prime Minister Narendra Modi being conferred with the highest State Honour of Egypt, Former Indian Diplomat KP Fabian said that as PM Modi has gone there and given the honour, it means that both the nations are looking forward to strengthening the bilateral ties with each other.
BJP national president JP Nadda, party MPs and its Delhi chief Virendra Sachdeva would receive Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his return to the national capital after concluding his hugely successful and substantive maiden State visits to the US and Egypt.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Sunday conferred Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Egypt's highest state honour, the 'Order of the Nile' award, in Cairo.
"If you look at the areas covered, it is a wide spectrum. Geopolitics, democracy, India-US relations. But I would say the biggest impact probably is an impact on technology cooperation, telecommunication and even in space," he said.
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Egypt on his maiden State visit to the African country, the members of the Indian diaspora said it was an honour for them to meet him.