PHOTO LEFT, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY), left, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at Singh’s residence in New Delhi on Feb. 25. PHOTO RIGHT, Sen. Clinton, left, with Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi at Gandhi’s residence in New Delhi on Feb. 25. (Photos: AFP)

NEW DELHI: U.S. Senator and former first lady Hillary Clinton (D-NY) met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on Feb. 25 to discuss a wide range of issues like health care and India-U.S. ties. She was accompanied by U.S. Ambassador David C. Mulford.

Clinton, who was in India to attend the India Today Conclave, met the prime minister at his residence at 7, Race Course Road. “It was a nice meeting and both enjoyed it,” said an aide to the prime minister. “They discussed health care, education, India-U.S. relations and South Asia. It was a wide-ranging discussion,” the aide said.

Singh told the N.Y. senator, seen by many as the Democratic frontrunner for president in 2008, that the Indian people fondly remembered the visit by her husband Bill Clinton in March 2000. The visit marked a “turning point in India-U.S. relations,” Singh said.

Sen. Clinton also called on Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi, party officials said, but declined to say what was discussed. Clinton made a brief appearance at the India Today Conclave at Taj Palace Hotel here on Feb. 25, where she shared the table with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai at lunch. She was scheduled to address the conclave on Feb. 26.

Sources said she would do some shopping and perhaps visit the Taj Mahal in Agra.