Updated on Sunday, November 07, 2010, 17:35
Zeenews Bureau
New Delhi: After having been received by PM Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur at the Delhi airport, President Barack Obama and Michelle visited the 16th century Humayun Tomb as a cultural part of their three day visit to India.
Indicative of the importance India accords to its emerging strategic relationship with the US, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur personally welcomed Obama and Michelle at the city airport.
The visit that started at 5pm will last 45 minutes wherein the President will be shown around the Mughal era mausoleum. Humayun`s tomb, a world heritage site, is said to be a model for the Taj Mahal in Agra. Located in Nizamuddin East of Delhi, it was the first garden-tomb on the Indian subcontinent. It was also the first structure to use red sandstone at such a scale. The tomb was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1993.
The complex, swarming with plainclothesmen, had turned into a virtual fortress and kept out of bounds the general public.
The first couple also interacted with the children of those involved in the renovation of the complex. Obama bent on his knees and chatted with the children who were dressed in their school uniforms. He gave them gifts in golden wrappers and signed autographs too.
Before he headed to the monument, the Air Force One touched down at the Delhi Airport at 3.19 PM and the President and the First Lady waved their hands while getting down from the aircraft.
Soon after alighting from the aircraft, Obama hugged Singh after shaking hands with him and greeted his wife Gursharan Kaur with a peck on her cheek. Michelle did the same to Singh and Kaur.
The couples were seen chatting for a few minutes before the visiting dignitaries introduced to officials in the reception line including Minister-in-Waiting Salman Khursheed, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and Indian Ambassador to the US Meera Shankar.
Singh, 78, and Obama, 49, share a special chemistry and have praised each other on several occasions. Obama hosted the first state dinner of his presidency for Manmohan Singh in Washington on November 24 last year.
The Obamas are in Delhi on the second part of their three-day maiden visit to India. Specific announcements on issues like counter-terrorism, regional security and clean energy are likely to be announced after talks between the two leaders tomorrow.
Singh had received Obama`s predecessor George W Bush at the airport when he visited India in 2006. The Prime Minister had also gone to the airport to personally receive Saudi Arabia King Abdullah and Nepal’s Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala.
Obama then proceeded to the Roosevelt House located inside the US Embassy for the reception by the US Ambassador and will then meet the Embassy staff.
Obama, who arrived in Mumbai yesterday afternoon, paid tributes to the victims of the 2008 Mumbai carnage and said his stay at the iconic Taj Mahal Hotel, one of the targets of the Mumbai terror strikes, was intended to send a strong message. Before embarking for Delhi, Obama and Michelle celebrated Diwali with kids in a school in Mumbai and then interacted with students at the St. Xavier`s College in a typical US townhall style.
Later in the evening, the Obamas will be attending the private dinner being hosted by the Prime Minister at his official residence, 7 Race Course Road.
ITC Maurya under siege for Obama`s visit
ITC Maurya, where the Obamas will stay till Tuesday morning, was swarming with hundreds of US and Indian security personnel Sunday as the luxury hotel prepares to receive its most high-profile guests this year.
US President Barack Obama and First Ladey Michelle Obama are expected to check into the presidential suite at the hotel.
"We have placed several policemen from Delhi Police`s mounted division, ITBP (Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force), and CISF (Central Industrial Security Force) personnel. Security officials in plain clothes are also manning the road," a senior police official said.
American security personnel and officials are also present outside the hotel.
Security agencies in Delhi have deployed snipers at rooftops, two battalions of Delhi Police outside the ridge opposite ITC Maurya, 15 companies of paramilitary officials and elite National Security Guard (NSG) personnel.
"We will also have around 400 Delhi traffic policemen to facilitate the movement of Obama`s entourage, on all routes it will take," the police official said.
Sardar Patel Marg, where ITC Maurya is located, will be blocked from both ends around half an hour before the American president and his cavalcade arrive. During his visit in Delhi, a five-tier security cover comprising Indian and American security officials will surround Obama.
Why is India show-casing Humayun's tomb, a member of the foreign dynasty that ruled India beginning with Baber, who destroyed the Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir?
because there pretty much nothing that you may want to show is worth the attention is humayun tomb not a part of the history of this nation ????? - sgb - nis
Dear sgb - nis, It is not a history we can be proud of, unless you are the type who feels proud to be subjugated.
http://www.zeenews.com/obama/story.aspx?aid=666409
Zeenews Bureau
New Delhi: After having been received by PM Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur at the Delhi airport, President Barack Obama and Michelle visited the 16th century Humayun Tomb as a cultural part of their three day visit to India.
Indicative of the importance India accords to its emerging strategic relationship with the US, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur personally welcomed Obama and Michelle at the city airport.
The visit that started at 5pm will last 45 minutes wherein the President will be shown around the Mughal era mausoleum. Humayun`s tomb, a world heritage site, is said to be a model for the Taj Mahal in Agra. Located in Nizamuddin East of Delhi, it was the first garden-tomb on the Indian subcontinent. It was also the first structure to use red sandstone at such a scale. The tomb was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1993.
The complex, swarming with plainclothesmen, had turned into a virtual fortress and kept out of bounds the general public.
The first couple also interacted with the children of those involved in the renovation of the complex. Obama bent on his knees and chatted with the children who were dressed in their school uniforms. He gave them gifts in golden wrappers and signed autographs too.
Before he headed to the monument, the Air Force One touched down at the Delhi Airport at 3.19 PM and the President and the First Lady waved their hands while getting down from the aircraft.
Soon after alighting from the aircraft, Obama hugged Singh after shaking hands with him and greeted his wife Gursharan Kaur with a peck on her cheek. Michelle did the same to Singh and Kaur.
The couples were seen chatting for a few minutes before the visiting dignitaries introduced to officials in the reception line including Minister-in-Waiting Salman Khursheed, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and Indian Ambassador to the US Meera Shankar.
Singh, 78, and Obama, 49, share a special chemistry and have praised each other on several occasions. Obama hosted the first state dinner of his presidency for Manmohan Singh in Washington on November 24 last year.
The Obamas are in Delhi on the second part of their three-day maiden visit to India. Specific announcements on issues like counter-terrorism, regional security and clean energy are likely to be announced after talks between the two leaders tomorrow.
Singh had received Obama`s predecessor George W Bush at the airport when he visited India in 2006. The Prime Minister had also gone to the airport to personally receive Saudi Arabia King Abdullah and Nepal’s Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala.
Obama then proceeded to the Roosevelt House located inside the US Embassy for the reception by the US Ambassador and will then meet the Embassy staff.
Obama, who arrived in Mumbai yesterday afternoon, paid tributes to the victims of the 2008 Mumbai carnage and said his stay at the iconic Taj Mahal Hotel, one of the targets of the Mumbai terror strikes, was intended to send a strong message. Before embarking for Delhi, Obama and Michelle celebrated Diwali with kids in a school in Mumbai and then interacted with students at the St. Xavier`s College in a typical US townhall style.
Later in the evening, the Obamas will be attending the private dinner being hosted by the Prime Minister at his official residence, 7 Race Course Road.
ITC Maurya under siege for Obama`s visit
ITC Maurya, where the Obamas will stay till Tuesday morning, was swarming with hundreds of US and Indian security personnel Sunday as the luxury hotel prepares to receive its most high-profile guests this year.
US President Barack Obama and First Ladey Michelle Obama are expected to check into the presidential suite at the hotel.
"We have placed several policemen from Delhi Police`s mounted division, ITBP (Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force), and CISF (Central Industrial Security Force) personnel. Security officials in plain clothes are also manning the road," a senior police official said.
American security personnel and officials are also present outside the hotel.
Security agencies in Delhi have deployed snipers at rooftops, two battalions of Delhi Police outside the ridge opposite ITC Maurya, 15 companies of paramilitary officials and elite National Security Guard (NSG) personnel.
"We will also have around 400 Delhi traffic policemen to facilitate the movement of Obama`s entourage, on all routes it will take," the police official said.
Sardar Patel Marg, where ITC Maurya is located, will be blocked from both ends around half an hour before the American president and his cavalcade arrive. During his visit in Delhi, a five-tier security cover comprising Indian and American security officials will surround Obama.
Why is India show-casing Humayun's tomb, a member of the foreign dynasty that ruled India beginning with Baber, who destroyed the Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir?
because there pretty much nothing that you may want to show is worth the attention is humayun tomb not a part of the history of this nation ????? - sgb - nis
Dear sgb - nis, It is not a history we can be proud of, unless you are the type who feels proud to be subjugated.
http://www.zeenews.com/obama/story.aspx?aid=666409
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