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NEW DELHI: US President Barack Obama touched down in New Delhi on Sunday to start the official leg of his three-day trip to India, which will see him, hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Obama began his visit with a trip to commercial capital Mumbai, where he announced 10 billion dollars' worth of trade deals on Saturday and met leading Indian businessmen.

Obama's itinerary in New Delhi includes an address to parliament on Monday and meetings with Singh and President Pratibha Patil, plus the leader of the ruling Congress party, Sonia Gandhi.

He will also visit the Raj Ghat, the site of independence hero Mahatma Gandhi's cremation after his assassination in 1948. Obama visited Gandhi's former home in Mumbai on Saturday.