Hillary clinton is today in india for her first visit to India as the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh as well as pay tributes to the martyrs of 26/11 terror attacks. On her maiden visit to India as the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton will arrive in Mumbai on Friday. The five-day visit by the former first lady of the US, is the first visit by a US Secretary of State to Mumbai in nine years, the last being by Madeleine Albright in 2000. On the eve of her maiden official visit to India, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said the two sides would hold their "most wide-ranging" strategic dialogue ever and hoped to engage New Delhi on the "difficult issue" of global and regional regimes on WMD, particularly nuclear weapons."We are delighted that our two countries will be engaging in a very broad, comprehensive dialogue. It is the most wide-ranging that I think has ever been put on the table between India and the US," said Clinton, whose five-day India visit begins on Friday with Mumbai being her first stop-over. "It (the bilateral partnership) has six pillars to it, one of which, of course, is foreign policy, strategic challenges, along with, you know, other matters like health, and education, and agriculture and the economy," she said. Clinton has a packed schedule on Saturday, which includes a meeting with Indian business leaders and visit to a centre of the Self-Employed Women's Association.
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