Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence-sponsored Haqqani Network, responsible for the killings of United States and coalition troops in Afghanistan and widely believed to have been responsible for the bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul a few years ago, is on the verge of being designated a Foreign Terrorist Organisation.
The Barack Obama administration apparently believes that Pakistan has discarded its use of ISI-sponsored terrorist groups to foment its strategic depth strategy vis-a-vis India in Afghanistan, and has told Congress that Pakistan has also re-deployed its troops from the Indian border to its border with Afghanistan to meet the internal terrorist threat it faces.
When questioned on recent efforts by the US to bring up issues against India at the World Trade Organization, most recently to thwart India's efforts to market generic drugs, Rao reiterated the 'candour in the dialogue' both countries have which had helped maintain a balance, eschewing any extreme decisions.
Prof Khyati Joshi, advisor to the survey -- Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faiths -- conducted by Pew Research Center's forum on religion and public life lends perspective on Asian Americans and their faith, particularly on Hinduism.
Bharatanatyam dancer and teacher Ranee Ramaswamy, 60, has been nominated by United States President Barack Obama as a member to the National Council of Arts, a key administration position.
The Pew center report on Asian American religions finds Hindu Americans are majority of Indian Americans; they vote predominantly Democratic; majority celebrate Christmas; only 19 per cent say they attend worship services at least once a week; are way ahead of Jewish Americans in both education and family income. Aziz Haniffa reports.
US Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee in 2008, and considered the GOP's foreign policy guru, Wednesday took to the Senate floor to defend nasty and unproven accusations by a coterie of right-wing House Republicans often referred to as the 'lunatic fringe' of the Party, that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's South Asian American Deputy Chief of Staff, Huma Abedin was part of a conspiracy by the Muslim Brotherhood to infiltrate the US government.
Aziz Haniffa profiles the most influential Indian American Republican in the important caucus state of Iowa
Two of the most feisty women activists on Capitol Hill, United States Senator Barbara Mikulski and US Representative Judy Chu, both Democrats representing Maryland and California, pledged at the National Federation of Indian American Association's Congressional reception that they would fight against the racial profiling of India Americans, Sikh Americans and Muslim Americans.
Immediately on its return from the July 4th holiday recess, an angry Republican dominated US House of Representatives has lashed out against the Obama administration for providing India and several other nations waivers from sanctions for cutting its oil imports from Iran, and threatened to take legislative action to rebut the administration's reprieve to these nations, by passing tough new sanctions.
Aneesh Chopra, erstwhile Chief Technology Officer to United States President Barack Obama, who quit his White House position nearly six months ago, amidst rumours that he would run for political office, has announced that he will seek the Virginia Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor in 2013.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs Dr Alyssa Ayres, the keynote speaker at the National Federation of Indian American Association's conference on Women's Empowerment, has declared that promoting women's empowerment in India is a key goal of the United States administration, particularly Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
India can help mend the fractured relationship between United States and Pakistan, believes a ranking member of the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee.
For more than a decade, Indian bureaucracy has continued to inhibit efforts by Indian American physicians to help the ailing health care there. This was the message conveyed by Dr Navin Shah, former president of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, to Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad during an hour-long meeting on the sidelines of the United States-India Strategic Dialogue held in Washington, DC in June.
For all of the euphoria by both sides over the third US-India strategic dialogue in Washington, DC last month that was co-chaired by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and External Affairs Minister S M Krishna, and the several collaborations announced in various areas and agreements initialed, when it comes to the totalisation agreement where over $1 billion has been contributed each year by Indian temporary workers in the US as social security payments over decades that h
On the eve of his imprisonment last month defiant Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai said that charges leveled against him for being a ISI agent have been withdrawn. Aziz Haniffa reports
Although the Nuclear Liability Law passed by Parliament has left the India-United States nuclear agreement in limbo, both countries at the end of their Strategic Dialogue in Washington pointed to the agreement between Westinghouse and the Nuclear Power Corporation of India as a tangible step toward ultimate implementation of the agreement.
After her meeting with External Affairs Minister S M Krishna, US Secretary of State said that Indo-US strategic partnership can be upped beyond 3.0 level that she had envisaged. Aziz Haniffa reports
Warner said the opportunities ranged from advancing the cause of the bilateral investment treaty, to advance the cause of greater collaboration between educational opportunities.
Srikanth 'Sri' Srinivasan, 45, a brilliant Indian American legal mind, who, in August last year was named principal deputy solicitor general of the United States, succeeding Neal Kumar Katyal, has been nominated by President Barack Obama to serve on the US court of appeals for the District of Columbia.
© 2025 Rediff.com - Investor Information - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances