WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama announced that US economic sanctions against Myanmar will be lifted, and trade preferences reinstated to provide duty-free treatment for goods from the Asian nation. The September 14 meeting in Washington […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Justice Department is preparing to launch a renewed strategy to address the unrelenting scourge of heroin and opioid addiction, in part by placing greater emphasis on identifying links between over-prescribing doctors and […]
WASHINGTON: On the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, US President Barack Obama paid tribute to the victims of 9/11 at the Pentagon in Washington. He called on Americans to protect the ideals that made their […]
US President Barack Obama has nominated a 47-year-old Indian-American woman attorney to the US District Court bench in New York, the White House has said. “I am pleased to nominate Diane Gujarati to serve on […]
DALLAS (TIP): The company that runs ITT Technical Institute announced Tuesday, September 6 that it was shutting down academic operations at all of its campuses and thousands of its employees will lose their jobs. The […]
Three weeks after the Americans had elected him as their next President, Barack Obama met a group of reporters and shared his thoughts on pitfalls of decision-making. In the course of that interaction, he made […]
VIENTIANE, LAOS (TIP): India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a veiled attack on Pakistan, raised the issue of terrorism at the East Asia Summit in Laos, September 8. Stating that most countries in the South […]
ISTANBUL (TIP): Washington and Ankara are ready to work together to push Islamic State jihadists out of their de facto capital of Raqa in northern Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in comments published […]
WASHINGTON: An Indian-American girl attracted a sizeable audience at the White House when she narrated a poem that shared her experience as an immigrant and how it was painful to replace her mother tongue Tamil […]
The US is likely to make a positive decision on Indias request for state-of-the art unarmed Guardian drones for maritime surveillance, especially in the Indian Ocean. The move comes after India was designated a major […]
Welcoming Indias growing role in the Asia-Pacific region, the US has said it will continue to work with other countries in the region for “addressing political and security challenges.” “Weve elevated our ties with India […]
Donald Trump’s campaign released a letter Tuesday signed by 88 retired military leaders endorsing his presidential candidacy, including four four-star generals and 14 three-star flag officers, according to the campaign. The group, which was organized […]
President Barack Obama has nominated a Pakistani-American, the first Muslim on the federal judiciary bench for the US District Court of Columbia. “I am pleased to nominate Mr Qureshi to serve on the US District […]
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte called Barack Obama a “son of a whore” on Monday, September 5, as he vowed not to be lectured by the US leader on human rights when they meet in Laos, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP); President Barack Obama has announced the designation of a Presidential Delegation to attend the Canonization of Mother Teresa in Vatican City on September 4. Lisa Monaco, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security […]
The military agreement signed with the US (LEMOA) has stolen all the thunder in two recent high-level interactions with the US. The spin seems to make the agreement the epitome of Indo-US ties because of […]
A group of 72 American lawmakers have asked US President Barack Obama to publicly support the right of the Dalai Lama to return to Tibet and call for an immediate and unconditional release of all […]
NEW YORK: Top economist and RBI’s former deputy governor Rakesh Mohan has been named senior fellow at the prestigious Yale University’s institute for global affairs. Mr Mohan will join the 2016-2017 class of 15 Senior […]
On Thursday, August 11 morning, Donald Trump doubled down on his latest verbal outrage: the claim that President Obama was the “founder” of ISIS Actually, the Republican Presidential nominee tripled down. Appearing on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” […]
As an American proud of my Indian ancestry, and my name unchanged, I am more than merely delighted that these United States and India have found a durable rhythmic tune, geopolitical and strategic in nature, bound […]
SUNRISE, FLORIDA (TIP): “They honor President Obama,” he told a rally inSunrise, Florida on Wednesday, August 10. “He is the founder of Isis “. Trump also attacked his Democratic rival for the White House, Hillary […]
PHILADELPHIA (TIP): Barack Obama, July 27 made a powerful endorsement of Hillary Clinton as the next US President, saying no one including himself was ever more qualified than his former secretary of state, as Democrats […]
Thursday (July 28) morning, many of us found ourselves riveted to television screens, listening to President Barack Obama deliver one of the most substantive and wise speeches by any world leader in recent years. Of course, […]
WASHINGTON, DC (TIP): Usually it’s the parents advising their kids to steer clear of junk food and stick to healthy stuff. But what happens when the kids are great cooks and stir up healthy recipes? […]
LOS ANGELES (TIP): President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday, July 19, 2016, announced they are backing state Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris, a longtime political ally of the president, in California’s historic Democrat-on-Democrat […]
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