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STORY: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott met his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi at a welcome ceremony at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi on Friday (September 5).
Abbott is in India on a two-day visit and the two leaders are expected to discuss a possible uranium deal. Work on an India-Australia agreement has been underway since Australia, which has 40 percent of the world's known uranium reserves, lifted a long-standing ban on selling uranium to energy-starved India in 2012.
Nuclear-armed India has since been working with Australia on a safeguard agreement to ensure uranium exports from Australia are used purely for peaceful purposes.
Abbott arrived in Mumbai on Thursday (September 4) and launched a scholarship programme for students called the 'New Colombo Plan', under which young Australians could live, study and work in the south-east Asian region.
