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Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, with a high-level delegation, left for US on Sunday for a four-day Homeland Security dialogue in Washington.

Shinde was accompanied by home secretary R K Singh, Anil Goswami, and a dozen other senior officials of Ministry of home affairs. Shinde’s counterpart, Jane Napolitano, US Secretary for Homeland Security, will be co-chairing the dialogue.

Talks will be held on strengthening exchange of intelligence, upgrading security infrastructure, forensic and investigation methods.

The two sides will also share their threat assessments of various terror groups, illicit financing and transnational crimes

Besides, they will also take measure of current mechanisms like the Joint Working Group on Counter-Terrorism and the Counter-terrorism cooperation initiative. Shinde is also expected to visit the site of the two bomb attacks at the finishing line of the Boston marathon, which killed three persons.Two brothers, whose family had emigrated from Chechnya, were found to have planted the bombs. While one was killed in a shoot-out, the other survived and confessed to the crime.Shinde will meet with FBI Director Robert Mueller and US Attorney General Eric Holder.