An Indian-American Christian outfit in the United States has expressed concern over a bill passed by Himachal Pradesh, alleging that it was aimed at harassing Christian workers in the Congress-ruled state.
Despite making "some progress" in tackling the menace of trafficking, India needs to do more in designating and empowering a national agency to carry out an effective law enforcement response to the crime.
The survey also found that even though the race is still more than nine months away, most Louisianans had already made up their minds to vote for Jindal over Blanco.
Raj Sharma, 49, a senior vice president and a private wealth advisor with the Private Banking and Investment Group at Merrill Lynch in Boston, has been recognised for the third consecutive year as one of the best advisors in the US.
Over 90 Indian-American community leaders and political activists, who were catalytic in pushing through the passage of the legislation, took part in the ceremony in the East Room of the White House.
President George W Bush signs the first part of the enabling legislation into law today.
She is the first Asian American appointed to the state bench.
>The formal signing ceremony, originally expected to take place on Monday December 11 in the Rose Garden at the White House, has been postponed to later in the week.
The passing of the rule means that when lawmakers debate the deal no new amendments will be allowed.
Administration sources said a signing ceremony would take place on Monday, December 11 with President George W Bush signing the bill into law.
Ambassador Sen will meet with the PM and other senior ministers, as well as scientists.
Meetings with nuclear scientists likely.
Rice's concerns were over the bills in their current form. India believed this was a case of 'moving the goal-posts.'
No dilution of language in the House and Senate bills is likely during the House-Senate conference that will meet on the United States-India civilian nuclear agreement when Congress reconvenes this week.
LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, in an annual speech on Monday, said the 2002 ceasefire agreement "defunct" and vowed to resume fighting.
The US said it does not see anything new in the nuclear defence treaties that were signed during the recent visit of the Chinese President Hu Jintao to Islamabad
The Bush administration has expressed hope that the US Congress will pass a legislation on the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal in a manner that would not make radical changes in the historic agreement so that they could "faithfully" implement it.
The White House will soon be presented a number of options on Iraq and one of them from the Pentagon will suggest that the US adopt the 'go big' strategy.
He will be the first Indian American to receive this.
The mediators also praised India's role in the developments in the island nation.
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