Congressman James Sensenbrenner, the senior most Republican was among a high-powered delegation of US lawmakers, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that visited India last month. Sensenbrenner has made it clear that the US Congress will not ratify any global climate change agreement if India is not a party to it. This delegation focused on global warming and energy among other issues. He said without India & China, the US will be at an economic disadvantage in a global treaty.
With only five legislative days left before the US Congress is scheduled to adjourn, the Indo-US nuclear deal is literally down to the wires, with the first real opportunity to push the initiative to Senate floor expected to arise on Tuesday. The big question doing the rounds is whether the Bush Administration will be able to persuade the lawmakers to complete the process on time.
In a sight rarely seen in the United States senate, dozens of Democrat members shut down the House of Representatives to protest their chamber's lack of action on a legislation to stop gun sales to people on some terrorism watch lists.
In July-Sept 2016-2017, TCS had missed street expectations with 7.8% growth in revenue.
'A couple of more such happenings in the coming weeks can push Kabul into total anarchy, and a Syria-like conflict may ensue,' warns Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
United States President Barack Obama has postponed his first visit to Malaysia and the Philippines next week due to the current US government shutdown, it was announced on Wednesday.
'We are relying on the understanding of other partners in this effort. We are asking people to look closely and quickly in the Nuclear Suppliers Group, to move expeditiously, and we hope that will happen, and then we'll go to the US Congress,' Boucher was quoted as saying last week in Japan, a transcript of which has been released in Washington.
Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Washington, DC-based Arms Control Association believes India's expectation of a 'clean exemption' at the Nuclear Suppliers Group meeting scheduled for August 21 is "a fantasy".
The influential Indian-American community has swung back to action to push the N-deal ahead.
Due to opposition from Trump's own party lawmakers, Speaker Paul Ryan could not muster the majority 215 votes.
Ahead of the crucial Itentaional Atomic Energy Agency meeting on Friday, a group of arms control experts has urged both the atomic watchdog and Nuclear Suppliers Group to look at the Indo-US nuclear deal 'very carefully and remove all ambiguities'.
The bill proposes to increase the H-1B visa fees to about $5,000 per application.
Sikh children in American schools have been subject to physical and racial abuses with fellow students calling them 'Bin Laden' or 'terrorist', according to a new survey.
'Pakistan has to take responsibility and start cracking down on terrorists.'
The various official growth forecasts for the year have moved from 8 per cent-plus to 8 per cent-minus, with only the pessimists saying it will fall to as low as 7 per cent -- which the country can live with in a downturn.
In the wake of the movement in recent days with speculation rife that Prime Minister Singh is willing to go ahead with the deal even if the Left allies in the coalition withdraw their support, the Bush administration -- which some perceived was a totally unrealistic statement, but which sources said was consequent to indications from New Delhi that there would be movement on the deal from its current moribund status -- vowed to work to complete the deal.
"I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job," Trump told Lavrov, according to a media report.
"The bottom line is, from now until January 20, we will continue to work to support this agreement. We will continue to encourage the Indian government to approve it. And if such time, it is approved, whether that is today, tomorrow, or January 19, we will make every effort to move it through Congress," State Department's Deputy Spokesman Tom Casey said on Tuesday.
Asking the US Congress to "act soon" on the crucial civil nuclear agreement with India, the White House has said the Bush administration will work very closely with members of the Congress to ensure the passage of the deal in a "timely fashion".
One reason that the United States has advanced as a justification for an exemption for India from the NSG guidelines is that India will be a contributing partner in the non-proliferation regime, once it accepts safeguards. When India insists that the deal is purely for energy and not for assisting in non-proliferation even by implication, the NSG members become perplexed and suspicious
Stoking a controversy, Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde threatened to "crush" the electronic media, alleging a section of it was unnecessarily provoking the Congress party by indulging in "false propaganda" against it.
Trump said that his proposal should be supported by both parties (Republican and Democratic) as a fair compromise -- one where nobody gets everything they want, but where the country gets the critical reforms it needs.
Asking the US to respect the efforts by China and India to resolve their boundary dispute peacefully, a top Chinese official on Monday said the two nations are wise enough to deal with it after the Pentagon accused Beijing of deploying more troops along the Sino-India borders.
Burns was responding to the opening remarks by Senator John F Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, who said it was imperative that the United States "...must consider Pakistan's relationship with India, especially when it comes to Kashmir."
Swadesh Chatterjee, coordinator of the US-India Friendship Council--the umbrella organization of community groups--that was formed exclusively to lobby on behalf of the deal in Congress, said, "Disappointment is an understatement."
Expressing regret that the US decision to honour him has caused tension between Washington and Beijing, the Dalai Lama on Wednesday categorically said that he was not seeking Tibetan independence. But the Tibetan spiritual leader alleged that his homeland is facing social and environmental degradation due to the Chinese rule.
A senior Republican lawmaker has suggested that the US Congress "look at" passing the 123 Agreement for civil nuclear cooperation between New Delhi and Washington to give a fillip to the UPA government's efforts to pass it in Parliament.
Senators Joseph Biden, John Kerry and Chuck Hagel, who met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Wedensday, said if the deal is not taken up in the US Congress by June and the process completed during the tenure of President George W Bush, any new US administration will renegotiate the deal.
Over 700 top United Nations officials, ambassadors, members of US Congress, and luminaries of different faiths paid tributes to spiritual guru Sri Chinmoy, who passed away last month.
The US House of Representatives has for the first time passed a resolution recognising the "religious and historical significance" of Diwali.
In the wake of ensuing presidential elections in the United States, the Indo-US Business Alliance, a politically strong trade group, is making efforts to get the annual limit of H1B visa raised from 65,000.
Mulford's remarks came on a day when CPI-M asked the government not to operationalise the deal for at least the next six months.
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Congress on Wednesday launched an all-out attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying his US visit was "disappointing" on outcomes and claimed that an atmosphere of a grand event was created with the help of "cheerleaders" many of whom brought from India.
The international health organisations, protesting against Swiss pharmaceutical major Novartis AG's legal challenge to provisions of the Indian Patent Act
Musharraf has been thrashed by members of the US Congress, leading analysts, and leading newspapers who have questioned his fidelity to the global war on terror.
National auditor says a significant part of NPAs was due to fraud and may never be recovered
He will create history because this would be the first-time ever the US Congress' powerful Upper House.
The first-ever Diwali celebrations will be held at the United States Capitol this year, with the US lawmakers announcing to hold a Congressional reception for the festival of lights.
Visiting Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday met United States Secretary of State John Kerry and discussed a wide range of bilateral and regional issues, the state department said.
Unfazed by protesters shouting "Shame on you!", Trump and Republicans celebrated after the bill passed the 216-vote threshold, with just one vote to spare
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