President Obama Visits India -- News Roundup

President Obama and his wife, Michelle, with Usha Thakkar, director of Mani Bhavan, the Gandhi Museum in Mumbai, India. Doug Mills/The New York Times

Bomb-Proof Tunnel With Air Conditioning: Obama's Security Go To Extraordinary Measures For His Tour Of The Gandhi Museum -- The Daily Mail

* American warships to patrol off Mumbai during visit
* Coconuts removed from trees as a precaution
* 250 U.S. business executives with Obama on 'biggest ever trade mission'
* $200million Asia trip cost denied but the President will have huge entourage

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle arrived in India's commercial hub of Mumbai on Saturday, days after voters punished his Democrats in mid-term elections.

Probably not since the days of the Pharaohs or the more ludicrous Roman Emperors has a head of state travelled in such pomp and expensive grandeur as the President of the United States of America.

While lesser mortals – the Pope, Queen Elizabeth and so on – are usually happy to let their hosts handle most of the security and transport arrangements when they venture beyond their home shores, the United States creates a mini-America on the move to ensure that nothing is left to chance.

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More News On President Obama's Visit To India

Obama wraps up Mumbai visit, heads to Delhi -- Yahoo News/AFP
Obama Invokes Gandhi, Whose Ideal Eludes Modern India -- New York Times
Obama calls India creator, not poacher, of US jobs -- Yahoo News/AP
In India, Obama pushes U.S. jobs -- CNN
US President Barack Obama announces $10bn India deals -- BBC
On Day 1 of India visit, Obama showcases trade deals with US firms -- Christian Science Monitor
U.S. Eases Restrictions on Exports to India -- Wall Street Journal
Obama wins India business -- Yahoo News/Reuters
Obama makes it all about business on first day in India -- McClatchy News
Obama in India: 'It is Hard to Overstate the Importance of Asia to Our Economic Future' -- New York Magazine
America and India: The Almost-Special Relationship -- New York Times
$200 million a day? -- The Economist

Air Force One to hit schedules for a six -- Times of India
Five layers of security for Obama's Delhi visit -- Sify News
Coastal security put on highest level of alert -- Times of India
The eagle lands, followed by decoy -- Times of India
English-speaking cops confined for four days in the Taj -- DNAIndia