US commerce secretary to visit ISRO, DAE; meet with tiffinwallahs - Times of India

WASHINGTON: The United States' drive to create jobs at home under economic pressure has trumped its sanctions regime. In a clear sign that the technology denial strategy towards India is drawing to a close, US commerce secretary Gary Locke will visit Indian Space Research Organization ( ISRO ), the Department of Atomic Energy, and the Nuclear Power Corporation of India during his visit to India next week in an effort to drive up American exports and signal closer strategic ties with India.

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Locke will also hold a town hall style event with students focused on innovation and the knowledge economy at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and visit the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) facilities in Bangalore "to see firsthand how US partnerships with HAL are contributing to India's aviation industry and generating high value jobs in both countries," the US commerce department and The White House announced in a statement detailing his schedule in India. All these entities had suffered in some way under a US technology denial regime that stretched back decades, but it was particularly severe in the immediate months after India's nuclear tests in 1998, when the so-called "non-proliferation ayatollahs" ( a term coined by the late K.Subrahmanyam) were rampant in Washington DC.

US commerce secretary to visit ISRO, DAE; meet with tiffinwallahs - Times of India