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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host a dinner for US Vice President J D Vance and Indian-origin Second Lady Usha on Monday evening after holding talks with the American leader on a range of key issues, including trade, tariff, regional security and ways to expand the overall bilateral engagement.
The US Vice President, his wife Usha and their three children — Ewan, Vivek, and Mirabel — are scheduled to land at the Palam airbase at 10 am on Monday on a four-day India visit.
Vance’s first visit to India comes weeks after US President Donald Trump imposed and then paused a sweeping tariff regime against around 60 countries, including India.
New Delhi and Washington are now holding negotiations to seal a bilateral trade agreement that is expected to address a variety of issues, including tariff and market access.
Hours after arriving in Delhi, Vance and his family are scheduled to visit the Swaminarayan Akshardham temple and could visit a shopping complex selling traditional Indian handcrafted goods, people familiar with the matter told PTI.
Besides Delhi, Vance and his family will travel to Jaipur and Agra.
Vance is expected to be accompanied by at least five senior officials, including from the Pentagon and the State Department, people familiar with the matter said.
At 6:30 pm on Monday, PM Modi will welcome Vance and his family at his 7 Lok Kalyan Marg residence that will be followed by official talks.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, NSA Ajit Doval, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and Indian ambassador to US Vinay Mohan Kwatra are expected to be part of the Indian team to be led by PM Modi, they said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address civil servants on the occasion of civil services day on Monday.
He will also confer the Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Public Administration for effective implementation of identified priority programmes and innovation to districts and central/state governments, a statement issued by the Personnel Ministry on Sunday said.
Modi will release e-books on holistic development and on innovations comprising the success stories on the implementation of the identified priority programmes and Innovations, it said.
A film on the award-winning initiatives will also be screened before the presentation of awards.
This will mark the seventh occasion when Modi will be addressing the national civil services day ceremonies, the statement said.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation’s civil servants on the 17th civil services day on April 21, 2025,” it said.
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi will give a talk and interact with faculty members and students at Brown University on Monday.
Congress’ media and publicity department head Pawan Khera said Gandhi will be visiting Brown University in Rhode Island, United States, on April 21 and 22.
He will be giving a talk and interacting with faculty members and students, Khera said.
Prior to visiting Rhode Island, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha will meet with members of the NRI community, as well as office bearers and members of the Indian Overseas Congress (IOC), he said.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said she will lay the foundation stone for a 1,600 MW super/ultra-supercritical thermal power plant at Salboni in Paschim Medinipur district on Monday to be developed by JSW Energy Ltd.
The Rs 16,000 crore project, comprising two units of 800 MW each, was awarded to JSW Energy through a competitive bidding process conducted by the West Bengal Power Development Corporation Ltd (WBPDCL). The greenfield thermal power plant is scheduled for commissioning within five years.
– With PTI inputs
