Michelle contrasted Clinton's vision of a "powerful, vibrant and strong" nation with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's vision of "hopelessness and despair".
Here are the highlights from Day 1 of the convention.
Chatwal said the prayer service aims to garner blessings for Clinton.
Donald Trump's exaggerated opinion of his dealmaking capacity can get him into trouble, observes R Sriram.
'Hillary Clinton is no friend of India,' says Rajeev Srinivasan. 'Not that Trump is necessarily one, but at least he gets the benefit of the doubt.'
'Accusations would be flung about his votes being stolen. He'll say dead people were voting from the grave.' Payal Singh Mohanka reports on the mood ahead of the US presidential election.
We have 107 days until Election Day. Together, we will fight. And together, we will win, Harris said.
'She will recognise the talent of the Indian-American community.'
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced her United States presidential bid, emerging as one of the top contenders for the Democratic Party nomination as she once again seeks to become America's first woman president.
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.'
Stepping down as the top American diplomat at the height of popularity, Hillary Clinton could announce her 2016 presidency bid by 2014, a media report said on Friday.
Harris, 59, is scheduled to formally accept the Democratic Party's presidential nomination on Thursday to take on Republican rival Donald Trump, 78, in the November 5 election.
Senator Obama has the ability to unite our nation as no one has done in my lifetime. Perhaps you need more proof, and in the coming weeks I'm sure he and his talented team of campaign staffers will show us.
Never one to pull his punches, a combative Donald Trump on Friday said he wanted to "hit" several Democrats who spoke against him "so hard, their heads would spin".
Clinton fell ill on Sunday during a 9/11 memorial ceremony in New York where she was seen stumbling limp-legged into her vehicle. She was later detected with pneumonia.
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.'
Rediff.com tries to recap the debate and presents the highlights from the event.
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Hillary Clinton's campaign has pushed back against rumours circulating that her health is failing and slammed Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump for pushing "deranged conspiracy theories."
'Bangladesh has become unstable and this instability will impact India.'
'A vote for Hillary means a vote for endless wars of trying to overthrow governments and rebuilding foreign countries.' 'A vote for Bernie Sanders means an end to these interventionist wars, and instead spending our money and precious resources rebuilding our own country,' Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, the only Hindu-American in the United States Congress, tells Aziz Haniffa/Rediff.com
Clinton, who lost to President Donald Trump in the 2016 elections, claimed that both Russia and China are benefitting from his weak foreign policy.
In his first tweet after election results started coming in US President Trump claimed success. "Tremendous success tonight. Thank you to all!".
"I am thinking about it," Hillary Clinton said at a conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. "The hard questions are not do you want to be president, or can you win," she was quoted as saying by local media. "The hard question is why? Why would you want to do this and what would you offer that could make a difference?"
With Obama joining her on the stage for the first time, Clinton described what a presidency is all about.
'I just did not think it was going to be that big a deal. It is just the kind of thing that if it happens to you and you are a busy, active person, you keep moving forward,' Clinton said.
With US counting its votes, here's a look at how Americans are reacting to the news.
"No leader or policymaker involved will claim to have gotten everything right in the region, Iraq especially," he said.
Clinton said in the blog post that she takes responsibility for creating the perception of being walled off but she is not cold or unemotional.
She acknowledged it would have been better if she had used government email for her official work.
Trump went live with his tweeting as Obama and Indian-origin Senator Kamala Harris delivered their speeches at the 2020 Democratic National Convention on Wednesday.
Bill Clinton was the first husband to give a speech on behalf of his wife as the nominee of a major party.
Writing a letter to United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton against granting a visa to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi when he has neither applied nor has any intention to do so is an attempt by US lawmakers to interfere in India's democratic election process, Overseas Friends of the Bharatiya Janata Party-USA has alleged.
Obama said that both Biden and Harris have the experience needed to get things done and they have concrete policies that will turn their vision of a better, fairer, stronger country into reality.
Michelle contrasted the vision of America that the former secretary of state offered to the reality TV star's vision which was grounded in "hopelessness and despair".
"The event is invitation-only for friends and supporters of the Trump-Pence campaign," the Trump campaign said.
'There will be very strong interest in cooperating with India under any future American administration, but on the margins India will need to be careful not to tip its hand regarding the election.'
Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh, who was instrumental in his party's volte-face on supporting the United Progressive Alliance government and the India-United States nuclear deal, recently visited the United States to meet with the presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton who he says is a good friend. In this interview, he speaks about the nuclear deal and the post-poll scenario
The November 3 presidential poll is an "election of a lifetime" for it being held amid a pandemic and seeing the "highest participation" of India-Americans, according to eminent community leader Swadesh Chatterjee.
The camp is trying to assuage the hurt feelings of Indian Americans, who are a major community.
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