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Terror being 'incubated' in India's neighbourhood With   Pakistan   obviously in mind, Prime Minister   Narendra Modi   on Wednesday said   terrorism   was being “incubated in India’s neighbourhood” and pressed for action without making any distinction against groups like Lashkar-e-Toiba,   Taliban   and   ISIS   who share the “same philosophy of hate, murder and killings”. In his address to the joint sitting of   US Congress   here, he said terrorism has to be fought with “one voice” as he commended the American Parliament for sending out a clear message by refusing to “reward” those who preach and practice terrorism for political gains, an apparent reference to the blocking of sale of 8 F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan. In the course of his 45-minute speech, he covered all major aspects of the growing relationship between India and the US, particularly strategic ties and civil nuclear cooperation, and emphasised th...

Modi, Obama have forged close working relationship: think-tank Prime Minister  Narendra Modi  has gone from somebody who was basically a "pariah" to someone who is now going to be celebrated in the course of just two years, a top American think-tank has said ahead of his meeting with US President Barack Obama  at the White House next week. "This would probably be the Prime Minister's seventh meeting with the President since he took office which probably is a record both for Modi and for the President with respect to meeting a head of government from a country which is not a formal ally of the United States," Ashley Tellis of the Carnegie Endowment for International  Peace said yesterday. "This speaks to the personal relationship that the two have developed over the last two years and also the surprising quality of it, given the history that Modi had with the United States," Tellis said ahead of the Obama-Modi meeting on June 7 at the White Ho...