'I think of that young baby, still in her diapers, balancing with her arms held up by her mother, a Tamil woman wearing a salwar kameez and a dupatta, seated on a stoop,' recalls Aseem Chhabra.
Guests at the memorial service were startled to see former President Jimmy Carter, all of 99 and in hospice care, attend the ceremony for his beloved Rosa to whom he had been married to for 77 years.
After accusing Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence of supporting the Haqqani terror network, the Obama administration is now relying on the spy agency to help it organise and begin "reconciliation talks" aimed at ending the war in Afghanistan, a media report said in New York.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who spoke at the freedom online conference in The Hague, said that some governments use internet governance issues as a cover for pushing an agenda that would justify restricting human rights online.
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton has unveiled a policy initiative, which seeks to incentivise 'insourcing' of jobs within US, while cutting tax benefits to companies shipping employment abroad. The 'insourcing' plan unveiled in Pittsburgh, billed by Hillary's campaign as 'groundbreaking', provides $ 7 billion per year in new tax benefits and investments to help companies create high-paying high-quality jobs in the US and to compete in the global economy.
The senior administration officials present at the swearing in included US Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, Under Secretary of State for Management Patrick F Kennedy, Director of the State Department's Policy Planning Council, Dr Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Pradeep Ramamurthy, Senior Director for Global Engagement at the National Security Council.
However, Obama fell behind in the number of delegates who would support his candidature in the Republican National Convention. In all, he has 653 delegates as compared to 668 with Hillary.
Supporters of Hillary Clinton say that Barack Obama should join Clinton in the November presidential polls and become vice president under the former first lady. Clinton's supporters say that Obama has, in the Democratic primaries, won states that are likely to be dominated by the Republicans in the presidential elections, whereas Clinton has won key states such as Ohio and Texas. Obama's supporters however, argue that Obama is the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination an
Obama's eighth successive victory over rival New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the race to the White House has narrowed the gap between the two Democrats in terms of delegates
The decision to offer the second most powerful job in the administration to 61-year-old Clinton followed days of intense vetting and negotiations intended to clear any potential obstacles to her taking the job, due to her husband Bill Clinton's global business and philanthropic activities.
A leading US daily has questioned Democratic leader Hillary Rodham Clinton's choice of NRI businessman Sant Chatwal, who faced allegations of forfeiting tax, as a fund-raiser.
Hillary Clinton, Obama hail Indian-American contribution on I-Day
It seems outsourcing is going to be the litmus test for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the run up to the 2008 United States Presidential elections.
Hillary raised $26 million in campaign cash while $10 million were transferred from her Senate fund-raising account to her presidential bid.
Bowing to intense pressure from her party colleagues, Hillary Rodham Clinton will end her history-making campaign and endorse Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination at an event in Washington on Friday.Her decision followed a day of consultation with donors, members of Congress and union supporters, who requested her to back Obama for the sake of party unity -- a sentiment that was voiced throughout the day by Democratic Party leaders.
History is being made. Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic nomination for president, becoming the first African-American in the US history to lead a major-party ticket, the CNN said.
Even though Hillary won fewer states as compared to Obama, she retains more number of delegates, who would ensure her nomination in the Democratic National Convention. She has 668 candidates as compared to Obama's 653.
The New York lawmaker, who is the co-chair of the Friends of India Caucus in the US Senate, said in her missive conveying greetings that 'Diwali is an annual festival of lights signifying universal love, peace, giving and caring. The glitter and splendor of lights which illuminate the dark sky on this day symbolizes the brightness of the future.'
This was the first Indian-American fundraiser for Clinton not only in Silicon Valley, but on the entire West Coast of the USA.
GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt and Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin will also keynote the Indian Institute of Technology 2007 Global Alumni Conference titled 'Transforming the World through Technology' in California next month.
The poll, which has margin of error of 3.1 percentage points, found that just 19 per cent of Americans now say that nation is headed in the right direction, while 68 per cent say things in the US 'are on the wrong track.'
US Democrat Senator on Saturday night formally bowed out of the race for the US presidential elections.
US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, who lost to Senator Barack Obama in the crucial primary held in North Carolina on Tuesday, has managed to secure a narrow win over her rival in the Indiana. The two results will step up pressure on the New York senator to reconsider her candidacy for the Democratic nomination to the white House.
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The CEO of infoUSA says the NYT article is a 'hatchet job' to embarrass Hillary Clinton and is motivated by the newspaper's support for Obama.
A lawsuit against Vinod Gupta, CEO, InfoUSA, has accused him of wasting the company's money on high-profile guests, according to a report on the website of The New York Times.
"I'm in. And I'm in to win," Hillary, a former first lady now representing New York in the US Senate, said in a banner headline on her Web site.
The US senator had earlier shared Thanksgiving dinner with US troops in Afghanistan on Thursday.
She said that 'the legislation that emerged from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was a significant improvement over the implementing legislation put forward by the Administration in March.'
US Senator John Cornyn, the founder and co-chair of the Friends of India Caucus in the US Senate with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, has exhorted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh not to throw in the towel on the US-India civilian nuclear deal. Cornyn also urged Dr Singh to try and resurrect the deal from the life-support it is on now.
Although two First Ladies, Jacqueline Kennedy and Hillary Rodham Clinton, have visited the country in 1962 and 1995, respectively, they came without their husbands.
The former first lady fainted during a luncheon speech Monday in New York, citing a 24-hour virus, but she recovered and resumed her public schedule.
Fashion and style were celebrated at the 2022 Met Gala with celebs walking the red carpet in their fanciest looks.
GET THE VOTE OUT! is the message from designer Christian Siriano.
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