Chinese Club of Leisure World Kiwanis & Chinese Clubs of Leisure World Present Indian Minister Rahul Chhabra Press, Information and Culture New Era of India - US Partnership Clubhouse II, Maryland Room August 28 at 1 P.M. By George and Yee Yo and Chacko At the first meeting between President Obama and Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh, in London on April 3, 2009 at the G20 Summit, India and the US pledged strong cooperation on combating terrorism, energy security and climate changes. . Dr. Manmohan Singh, who as Finance Minister steadily steered India toward private enterprise during 1991-96, said in his keynote address to the G20 Summit: “We in India have been fortunate in having weathered the global downturn better than many others. Our growth rate, which was close to 9 percent in the previous five years, will fall below 7 percent in 2008-09.” Goldman Sachs reports that during September-January, at the peak of the credit crisis, Foreign Direct Investment rose to $9.2 billion, higher than the $7.9 billion in the corresponding period. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, meets with U.S. President Barack Obama during G20 Summit, April 2, 2009 Photo Courtesy Government of India The United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act cleared its final hurdle Oct. 1, 2008 when the Senate voted to ratify it by an overwhelming margin of 86 to 13. Four days earlier, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the bill without debate by a vote of 298-117. President George W. Bush, who signed the bill in a formal ceremony Oct. 4, has been one of its biggest supporters. It is India's stated objective to increase the production of nuclear power generation from its present capacity of 4,000 MWe to 20,000 MWe in the next decade. OUR SPEAKER Mr. Rahul Chhabrah, Minister of Press, Information and Culture at the Indian Embassy, received Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from Delhi University. He was graduated 3rd in his class in 1985 from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, one of the 12 centers of excellence that India’s First Premier Jawaharlal Nehru set up in the 1940s, in collaboration each with Harvard, MIT, and others. Minister Chhabra is a career diplomat who entered Indian Foreign Service in 1987 and has been posted to Paris and manila before Washington, D.C. An Activity Every Weekday, including: Ba Duan Exercise Sessions: Mondays 3:30-4:30 p.m. Clubhouse II Nutritious Lunches: 2nd and 4th Fridays, 12 Noon PJ’s Rice Bistro, Wheaton Plaza Any Questions, Call Dr. Pauline Yang, 301-598-8369