Date:31/03/2006 URL: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/03/31/stories/2006033103140300.htm

Back Call for India, US partnership

Our Bureau

New Delhi , March 30

It would be in the interest of both India and the US to partner with each other as India progresses on higher growth path, said the US Ambassador to India, Mr David C. Mulford, here on Wednesday.

While speaking at the inauguration of the newly renovated building of the US Educational Foundation in India, Mr Mulford said the US would now focus on increasing the presence of US universities in India. he said in 2004-05 only 1,000 US students came to India compared to over 80,000 Indian students who went to study in the US.