And this year Kyrgyzstan's government has threatened to block NATO's access to its Manas airbase.
Petraeus described Manas as having "an important role in the deployment of these forces" and in refueling aircraft.
Shri Manas Ranjan Mahapatra, Editor, National Center for Children Literature of National Book Trust will inaugurate the programme.
"Leopards and elephants often wander into the plantation, " said senior manager Manas Bhattacharya.
Such deals, if confirmed, could help fill the void left by the closing of the Manas Air Base in Kyrgyzstan.
The government of Kyrgyzstan asked parliament to approve the closure of an important American air base, Manas, near the capital, Bishkek.
In 2008, Switzerland-based Manas Petroleum (MNAP) announced it found an estimated 3 billion barrels of oil and 3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas at depth.
Over a cup of coffee on the Harvard Medical Area campus in Boston, 8, 000 miles from Bangalore, Dr. Manas Kaushik talks about the emigration of Indian doctors.
He said there could be fewer than 400 pygmy hogs in the world and all of them are in Assam's Manas national park in the foothills of Bhutan.
Manas said he was "not sure" who had carried out the attack on shepherds in Jharkhand since there were a number of splinter rebel groups in the state.
The latest is Kyrgyzstan, a Central Asian nation of five million that has been home to a U.S. air base at Manas, a critical transit center to supply troops in Afghanistan.
"The decision to abolish the agreement on the military air base, Manas, has been made, and there is no turning back from this, " Foreign Minister Kadyrbek Sarbayev told a Kyrgyz news agency.
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