New Delhi, Oct 4: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived here on a two-day visit but the 123 civilian nuclear agreement will not be signed today.

During her visit, Rice will hold talks with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on bilateral and regional issues, and also on ways to take the bilateral strategic partnership further. She will also hold talks with Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.

Washington, Oct. 3 : U. S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that she is looking forward to her meetings with the Indian leadership during her visit to New Delhi.

Though her schedule is yet to be confirmed, Rice told media and officials at a State Department reception here that ties between India and the United States were on a firm footing, and added that the bilateral civil nuclear cooperation deal should be seen as a part of Washington’s "enduring" friendship with New Delhi.

Washington - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will head to India this week to put the final stamp on a historic accord the allows the United States to sell nuclear technology to India, the State Department said Thursday.

Rice departs Friday for New Delhi after the Senate overwhelmingly approved the agreement Wednesday evening in the final legislative move required before it goes for President George W Bush's signature.

Washington- US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice condemned the car bombing in Syria Saturday that killed more than a dozen people.

"I just learned this morning of the bombing in Syria and I don't think we know" who was behind it, Rice said in New York. "Obviously, any activity by extremists is concerning."

The car bombing in Damascus killed 17 people and wounded another 14 in the early morning attack in the busy Sayyida Zainab district.

New York, Sept 27 : The US and Pakistan must endeavour to deal with the growing tensions between their troops’ standoff at the Pak-Afghan border over the past few weeks. Tensions emerged between the US and Pakistani troops after the recent US’ air and ground strikes on Pakistani soil aimed at eliminating terrorists, but which eventually killed a host of civilians.

Washington, Sept. 26 : US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may soon visit India to discuss the next steps in actualising the US-India civil nuclear cooperation deal.

Revealing this to the Indian media accompanying Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on his 10-day visit to the United States and France, Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon said: "I think, we are discussing the possibility of the visit of the Secretary of State to India. We have been trying it for sometime and looking for possibility of dates."