The United States will deploy navy warships at the Mumbai port when President Barack Obama visits India in early November, reported local media Tuesday.

Obama and his traveling delegation have booked the entire Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai for their trip to India, said the reports.

The 2008 Mumbai terror attacks which claimed over 170 lives ended with a siege at the Taj Mahal hotel.

"All the 547 rooms in the iconic hotel have been booked for two days for President Obama's visit to Mumbai in the first week of November as a security measure," the daily Economic Times said quoting sources.

"On top of that, U.S. navy ships will also be deployed, as the president is staying in a hotel by the ocean," The Economic Times said, adding that Obama's delegation is so large that another 300 rooms have reportedly been booked in other luxury Mumbai hotels.

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