Washington - US President George W Bush signed legislation Wednesday allowing the United States to sell civilian nuclear technology and material to India.

The bill reverses more than 30 years of US policy banning the export of nuclear technology to India in exchange for international inspections of India's civilian nuclear energy programme.

The agreement was at the top of Bush's foreign policy agenda as he prepares to leave office in January and it has emerged as the centrepiece of increasingly strong diplomatic and economic relations between the two countries.

Washington, Oct 8 : US President George W. Bush will sign the India-US Civil Nuclear Cooperation Bill here today.

The “US-India Nuclear Cooperation Approval and Nonproliferation Enhancement Act, HR 7081" is scheduled to be signed into a law at 12:20 a. m. IST.

The US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who arrived in India last week to sign the deal after the US Congress ratified the historic nuclear pact, but couldn’t ink the pact because of bureaucratic procedures.

Washington - President George W Bush on Monday warned it would take some time for the 700-billion-dollar rescue package to help free up credit availability and restore confidence in the financial system.

As stocks plunged more than 5 per cent Monday morning, Bush said the legislation he signed Friday was a "big step toward solving the problem" but recognized that small businesses and consumers were still reeling from the credit crunch.

New Delhi, Oct 5 : US President George W. Bush will sign the legislation on the Indo-US nuclear deal, into a law on October 8 at the President’s office, stated the White House.

Both the House of Representatives and Senate approved the Bill H R 7081, named after Democrat Howard Berman, last week.

On Saturday, the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, while addressing a joint press conference with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi, had said that President Bush would sign the legislation "very soon".

Washington - US President George W Bush Friday thanked the US Congress for passage of the emergency rescue plan for the country's finance system but warned that economic improvement won't happen "overnight."

"It will take some time for this legislation to have its full impact on our economy," Bush told reporters at the White House less than an hour after the measure cleared its final hurdle in the House of Representatives.

Bush said he would sign the legislation into law.

Bush, an ardent Republican advocate of free markets, over the past year has insisted the markets would solve the growing credit crunch caused by mortgage assets gone sour, and his philosophy came through in his remarks.

Washington - US legislators were hearing a changed tune on on Thursday as business and retired communities made a desperate last -minute push for final approval of a sweetened US financial rescue by the House of Representatives on Friday.

Business leaders met with US President George W Bush Friday morning at the White House, while the US Chamber of Commerce made an urgent appeal on its website for members to contact their legislators "and urge them to support this vital piece of legislation."