BWith a distracted president brooding in the White House, Pompeo seems to think his day has come. He seems to be pushing a personal agenda before a target audience in America, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The prime minister said that a larger Indian economy has multiple benefits for the world
'This was the first ever visit by a President in a re-election year so it sent a strong signal of the priority of the relationship and the desire to continue to strengthen it.'
In 1989 when Bajaj came out with their legendary and elegant Hamara Bajaj campaign, that looked more at apna India, rather than the scooter, and at all hues of scootered Indians, it drew millions of eyeballs and was brilliantly successful.
He said Indians will reflect on Vajpayee's many contributions that led to India's rise as a global and economic power.
The NASSCOM report said Indian tech industry contributed more than $375 million to the US Treasury between fiscal year 2011-2015
'Frankly, India has no role to play.' 'This is a showdown between the US and NATO on one hand and Russia on the other.' 'That said, the outcome of this titanic struggle in Central Europe will remould the world order and affect India profoundly,' argues Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
India's negotiating posture at the multilateral negotiations should be aligned with a significantly transformed development strategy domestically.' 'The positions the country takes at the negotiations will then carry credibility, says Shyam Saran, former foreign secretary and India's chief negotiator on Climate Change 2007-2010.
The nominees are Congresswoman Deb Haaland as Secretary of Interior, Jennifer Granholm as Energy Secretary, Michael Regan as administrator for Environmental Protection Agency and Brenda Mallory as Chair of the Council of the Council on Environmental Quality.
Currently more than 95 per cent of America's 330 million population are under a stay-at-home order and over 22 million Americans have applied for unemployment benefits.
"As president, I can put no other consideration before the well being of American citizens," said Trump as he announced his decision to withdraw from the Paris agreement.
The corona deaths in India so far add up to 91,149 (September 24, 3.26 pm). It is seven-and-a-half times the number of Indian soldiers slain in all the wars (1947, 1961-1962, 1965, 1971 and 1999) in post-independent India's history, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
If the Taliban have proved one thing over these two decades, it is that they are way smarter than their big brother, observes Shekhar Gupta.
In this moment there has to be honest acknowledgement of how so many in our community willingly voted for another four years of Trump, based on the morally flimsiest of reasons, points out Suleman Din.
India on Friday asked the United States to move ahead with an agreement which would exempt professionals from payment of security taxes to mitigate the impact of a visa fee hike last year.
Keen to salvage its engagement with Washington DC that has gone southbound ever since the Trump administration came in, India has called for a final set of meetings with US trade officials, soon, reports Subhayan Chakraborty.
The 59-year-old Rana, a childhood friend of David Coleman Headley, was re-arrested on June 10 in Los Angeles on an extradition request by India for his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack in which 166 people, including six Americans, were killed.
These countries off easy life, better access to healthcare and cheaper cost of living.
It should stop what it is deliberately doing to the NGO sector and let it operate as freely as the rest of the private sector, asserts Aakar Patel.
Biden's proposal also sets aside USD 20 billion for a national vaccination programme and USD 50 billion to scale up coronavirus testing.
Foreign banks set the template in consumer banking in its infancy, but have almost vacated this booming space.
From Bollywood-themed performances to a heritage tour... Donald Trump will soak up all things Indian.
Trump has repeatedly blamed countries like India and China for not doing enough on climate change, labelling them as regions with air that is impossible to breathe.
Any market correction, analysts say, would be an attractive entry point for risky assets, which should do well over the medium-to-long term.
'All the benefits of democracy will flow to Kashmir now. This has not happened in the last 70 years.'
The commerce department has said that earnings through the new tax will equal the losses faced by Indian industry after the US tariffs on steel and aluminium.
T N C Rajagopalan on the new year and new worries.
According to exporters, withdrawal of incentives under GSP would impact India's export worth $5.6 billion to the US.
'The real problem of joblessness and democratic politics is happening here in India. And it is happening now, right before us.'
'I love clean air but Russia and China, you look at a map you have all these spots and India and many others are spewing it in. What do you suggest?'
'Employment of dedicated lightweight special forces aircraft may provide the answer for repeat anti-terror air strikes with surprise elements intact, the cost benefit assured and attrition minimal,' says Group Captain Murli Menon (retd), India's former air adviser in Pakistan.
An influential immigration advocacy group representing Indian-Americans on Thursday urged the Biden administration not to issue the most sought-after H-1B work visa to any individual born in India, till the time the discriminatory country-cap on green cards or permanent legal residency is removed. The current per-country cap on issuing of green cards in the US has resulted in Indian professionals, mostly from the IT sector, having to wait for decades for their legal permanent residency. Issuing new H-1B visas to more Indians would add to this agonising painful wait for green cards, Immigration Voice said in a statement.
...Is this a virus more dangerous than Covid-19, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
'I do not think that we are showing Hindu humanity and humaneness in the process of the National Register of Citizens.'
'... For the India-US relationship to continue its positive trajectory, it will require India to adapt to a different approach.' Nisha Desai Biswal -- who as the Obama administration's point person for South Asia was in the inner circle of all the Obama-Modi Summits -- tells Rediff.com's Monali Sarkar why she is hopeful that India and the US are on an irreversible forward course.
Automobiles, banks, pharma and software firms growth drivers slowdown in cap goods, construction, power.
Conflict of interest between US President Barack Obama's pitch for Make in America and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Make in India may arise but a 'win-win' situation can be fashioned if manufacturers on both sides embed themselves in each other's supply chains, according to Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra.
Dr Vivek H Murthy, the next surgeon general of the United States, wonders whether social media is worsening one of the biggest problems in the world today -- loneliness.
To help US, as India will be a major economy in the future.
The wait for the new iPhone is over as the tech giant Apple officially launched its new iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro on September 14.
