WASHINGTON (TIP): House Republicans were shell shocked on Thursday, October 8, when California Representative Kevin McCarthy, the favorite to succeed retiring House Speaker John Boehner, dropped out of the race in a surprise that adds […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The founder of the global News Corp media empire, Rupert Murdoch, issued an apology on Thursday after he faced social media backlash following his suggestion that President Barack Obama isn’t a “real […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States has taken place at a moment of significant opportunity for India. The Chinese economy, which had seemed invincible, has faltered and is facing deep structural problems. India is […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Three Indian-American CEOs, Ajay Banga of Master Card, Indra Nooyi of PepsiCo and Satya Nadella of Microsoft, attended President Barack Obama’s lavish state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping. Mr. Banga, Ms Nooyi […]
MOSCOW (TIP): Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday branded US support for rebel forces in Syria as illegal and ineffective, saying US-trained rebels were leaving to join Islamic State with weapons supplied by Washington. In […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): Israel’s prime minister went to the United Nations on Oct 1 to call for an immediate resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians and to savage the international community’s nuclear deal with […]
NEW YORK: Three Indian-American CEOs, Ajay Banga of Master Card, Indra Nooyi of PepsiCo and Satya Nadella of Microsoft, attended President Barack Obama’s lavish state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping. Mr Banga, Ms Nooyi and […]
President Barack Obama is naming three Indian Americans to an advisory council on faith-based and neighbourhood partnerships that brings together religious and secular leaders as well as scholars and experts in their fields. The President’s […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Indian diaspora in the US has launched “Mission 2022” in partnership with the Confederation of Indian Industries to make US-India partnership a defining partnership of the 21st century. “We have set a goal […]
BEIJING (TIP): Visiting Chinese president Xi Jinping on Tuesday asked the US to treat China as an equally strong nation in what he called “a new model of major country relationship”. He demonstrated China’s economic […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Dealing a decisive defeat to Republicans’ attempts to derail the controversial Iran deal, Senate Democrats on Thursday, September 10, successfully blocked a measure meant to kill President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A US judge said on Wednesday congressional Republicans could move forward with parts of a lawsuit that alleges executive overreach by President Barack Obama’s administration in implementing his signature healthcare law. US District […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama along with vice president Joe Biden and several of his cabinet ministers are all set for a high-level engagement with the Indian leadership in a series of meetings later […]
US President Barack Obama along with Vice-President Joe Biden and several of their government officials are all set for a high-level engagement with the Indian leadership in a series of meetings later this month. This […]
U.S. President Barack Obama will award Indian-American Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, the 2014 National Humanities Medal, which honors those who have widened the public’s engagement with literature and “deepened the nation’s understanding of […]
ANKARA (TIP): Iran’s supreme leader said on September 3 he favoured a parliamentary vote on its nuclear deal reached with world powers and called for sanctions against Tehran to be lifted completely rather than suspended, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Five Chinese Navy ships are sailing in international waters in the Bering Sea off Alaska, the Pentagon said, in an apparent first for China’s military that came as US President Barack Obama toured […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): It is all but assured the international agreement, which took years to craft, will play out at least for the rest of Obama’s presidency. When the Senate returns from its August recess after […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Meeting the long pending demand of native Americans in Alaska, US President Barack Obama has decided to rename the highest mountain in North America as ‘Denali’ instead of its existing name of ‘Mt […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama secured a landmark foreign policy victory over ferocious opposition from Republicans and the government of Israel when Democratic Sen Barbara Mikulski became the 34th vote in favor of the Iran […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Pentagon’s inspector general is investigating an allegation that the U.S. military command overseeing the anti-Islamic State campaign distorted or altered intelligence assessments to exaggerate progress against the militant group, a defense official […]
MONTGOMERY: Amelia Boynton Robinson, a US civil rights activist who nearly died while helping lead the Selma, Alabama civil rights march in 1965, championed voting rights for blacks and was the first black woman to […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama is caught between the White House aspirations of two of his closest advisers: Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. For months, White House officials […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Sweeping into office in 2009, President Barack Obama captured near rock-star status around the world among millions who saw him as the embodiment of a new sense of social purpose. Now, that baton […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The White House said on August 26 that President Barack Obama will “no doubt” raise concerns about China’s cyber security behavior when he meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping next month. Obama will […]
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