DHAKA: US president Barack Obama will host a town hall-style meeting in India on Tuesday, seeking to stress the shared values of the world’s largest democracies as he wraps up a visit aimed at reinvigorating their sometimes tense ties.

The speech to around 1,500 young Indians comes at the end of an unprecedented second visit to India by a serving US president, underscoring Obama’s determination to re-invent a relationship marred by a bitter diplomatic row in late 2013, reports The Straits Times.

Although the trip has been light on substantive policy announcements, Obama and India prime minister Narendra Modi announced a breakthrough on a nuclear deal that had stalled under India’s previous government and have been at pains to demonstrate their personal rapport.

Obama, who hosted Modi in Washington in September, has said the ‘stars are aligned’ to realise a vision he outlined for the two countries to become global partners when he last visited in 2010.

BDST: 1116 HRS, JAN 27, 2015