New Delhi, Sep 01, 2016: Kerry highlights India’s position as strategic associate of US. India is a key strategic companion of the US with the struggle in opposition to terror and stability of the Indian Ocean Region in focus, US Secretary of State John Kerry stated on Wednesday as he interacted with college students on the premier Indian Institute of Technology right here.

Kerry, who reached Delhi on Monday night, confronted Delhi’s rain woes for the second time, as his motorcade needed to negotiate a waterlogged street proper in entrance of the institute.

Kerry highlights India’s position as strategic associate of US.

He, nevertheless, selected to joke about it and requested the viewers within the nearly packed IIT corridor if they’d come by boats.

“I do not know in case you got here in boats or amphibious autos of some sort,” Kerry requested, frightening laughter.

His programme to go to just a few holy locations within the nationwide capital was, in the meantime, cancelled even because the American Embassy most well-liked to say it was “postponed” due to the torrential rain as Kerry highlights India’s position as strategic associate of US.

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