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Vance to visit India next week: White House

Agencies
Thursday, Apr 17, 2025

NEW DELHI: US vice president JD Vance will visit India next week with his family for meetings with the top leadership, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to discuss shared economic and geopolitical priorities.

The trip to India will be the second leg of a week-long two-nation tour beginning on April 18 that will first take Vance to Italy, the White House announced on Wednesday. This is his first visit to India.

Vance and his family will arrive in India in the morning of April 21, people familiar with the matter said on condition of anonymity.

Soon after their arrival, Vance and his family will visit the Red Fort. In the afternoon, Vance will meet National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, external affairs minister S Jaishankar and BJP president JP Nadda, the people said.