Sonia Gandhi, chief of India's key ruling alliance member Congress party, and Ratan Tata, who heads one of the country's top business houses, have been named in a list of 100 most influential in the world by Time magazine. The list also includes international figures like Tibetan leader Dalai Lama, US President George Bush as well as three presidential aspirants Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Sean McCormack, spokesman for Rice, said that the US Secretary of State would return to Stanford University, where she was a tenured professor.
Does the remarkable slide in Obama's approval rating reflect an objective assessment of his performance as president?
Obama, the Illinois senator, has won the Wisconsin vote to pick a US Democratic presidential candidate, handing rival Hillary Clinton the ninth straight defeat on Tuesday.
Senator Hillary Clinton, bidding to become the first woman president of the US, consolidated her position by winning the hard-fought Nevada caucuses edging past her Democratic rival Barack Obama
According to evidence presented at trial, Kernell obtained unauthorised access to Palin's personal e-mail account by resetting its password.
Even Karl Rove, the man known as George W Bush's 'Brain' and the person behind Bush's 2000 and 2004 campaign victories, predicts a win for Democratic candidate Barack Obama in the US presidential election on Tuesday.
The Berman Bill H R 7081, named after Howard Berman, a Democrat strongly opposed to the deal on non-proliferation grounds and who converted only a couple of days back, was adopted with 86 voting for and 13 against. The Senate also rejected the killer amendments introduced by Democratic Senators Byron Dorgan and Jeff Bingaman to ensure that the US nuclear exports to India do not help boost New Delhi's nuclear weapons programme
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has launched a new enhanced web portal -- narendramodi.in -- which would enable the common man to interact with him.With the launch of the portal, Modi joins a league of United States politicians like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain, who have been using the internet as a tool to reach out to their supporters, gathering donations and getting feedback on policies and programmes.
Barack Obama, who is attempting to script history by being the first black President of the United States, leads his Republican rival John McCain among all registered voters by 45 per cent to 39 per cent. However, in a sign of how racially polarised US voters are, Obama draws support from 89 per cent of blacks, compared with two per cent for McCain, the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
A new immigration Bill 'almost certainly' faces opposition from Republicans in the US Senate who say that allowing citizenship to illegal aliens would be another form of amnesty that will only increase illegal immigration, a report said on Friday.
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.
Presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama has said that the United States should finish the fight against terror outfits Al Qaida and Taliban instead of sending troops to Iraq."We should finish the fight against Al Qaida and Taliban instead of going into Iraq. We need to take more resources and put them in Afghan - at least two additional combat brigades and US$ 1 billion in non-military assistance each year," Obama said.
Barack Obama is in the final stages of putting in place a crack team of cybernauts that will respond aggressively to rumours that the presumptive Democratic candidate for the US presidential election is "unpatriotic and a Muslim."
While poll participants were clear that they prefer a Democrat in the White House, when asked to pick between McCain, Obama and Clinton, the votes were tied. Voters prefer Democrats for issues such as the economy and health-care, but on terrorism and social issues, the Republicans came out as the preferred party.
As Americans queued up at polling stations across the nation, leading Democratic contenders Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton fought a see-saw battle while the main Republican frontrunner John McCain sought to bury his rivals at the Super Tuesday primaries, a 24-state showdown.
Admitting that Clinton was a 'favourite' and he the 'underdog,' Obama unleashed star campaigners Senator Edward Kennedy, influential brother of former US President John F Kennedy, the slain leader's daughter Caroline and talk show host Oprah Winfrey to convince undecided voters.
'I am suspicious of the Democratic Party in the US; two, that I fear that Obama is all style and no substance; and three, that I believe his war-cry of 'change!' is no more than election rhetoric, because there is no way anybody is going to turn the battleship that is America except very, very slowly.'
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A growing number of voters have concluded that Senator John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin is not qualified to be vice president, weighing down the Republican ticket to the White House in the last days of the campaign, a new poll shows.
Republicans convened their national convention in St Paul, Minnesota on a subdued note focussing much of their attention on how best they could rally forces to the beleaguered folks of Louisiana and Mississippi affected by Hurricane Gustav.
Playing to the gallery on the hot button issue of outsourcing in his acceptance speech, Obama kept up with the rhetoric on the subject that has been a staple of Democratic campaigning and went on to spell out what he would do as President on the front.
Obama, who hopes to be the first black-American President now holds a three-point lead over the Senator from Arizona, in an average of national polls, 47 per cent to 44 per cent, down from the five-point margin he held over the Vietnam war veteran, television channel CNNs poll of polls says.
John McCain's top economic adviser suggests that Obama may be dragging down the greenback
Polls show that Hillary's contenders are stronger than her.
The US Senate has decided to release documents detailing any drug use by American athletes.
Presumptive US Republican presidential nominee John McCain is expected to meet soon with Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, a recent report said. McCain is expected to travel to Louisiana on Wednesday. The timing and the haste with which the visit is arranged, has caught some members of Jindal's team by surprise, the report added.
McCain and Sen. Joseph Biden, a Delaware Democrat, said the U.S. public needs to be told more clearly and realistically the difficult challenges in Iraq.
The US Senate has confirmed Indian-American woman administrator Nisha Desai Biswal as the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, making her the first person from the community to hold the top diplomatic position.
A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent address to a joint session of Congress, top Republican senator John McCain had moved an amendment to the National Defence Authorisation Act which if passed would have recognised India as a global strategic and defence partner.
A gaggle of past presidents, prominent Senators, and other famous and eminent personalities gathered at Capitol Hill for the swearing-in ceremony of Donald J Trump as the 45th President of the United States.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned that any military attack against his embattled regime would lead to a regional war, as United States President Barack Obama on Tuesday said he is confident of getting Congress' authorisation for military intervention in Syria.
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Here are some of the best images clicked across the globe in the month of August.
Former Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri on Monday claimed that India had considered carrying out surgical air strikes at the headquarters of terror outfits JuD and LeT near Lahore.
Three top US lawmakers have asked the Congressional leadership to invite Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address a joint session of the US Congress when he visits Washington at the invitation of President Barack Obama.
One Congressmen said the Uri terror attack along with the bombings in New York and New Jersey "demonstrate our need to continue to work together through our" counter-terrorism partnership to defeat terrorism.
All efforts of Trump's party to repeal the healthcare of his predecessor has failed so far, mainly due to the opposition of some of his own Senators.
Reflecting a new sense of bonhomie between India and the United States, top American lawmakers on Wednesday praised the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and underscored that the bilateral relationship has entered a new phase.
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