The special will also provide viewers the opportunity to peek inside White House.
The presence of more Indian Americans in the team has made the whole community proud.
Obama, or his image-makers, are veering towards building his legacy as an African-American hero, who not only captured power, but also fought relentlessly for the downtrodden. That will enable him to escape the criticism that he did not end racism as President and to fight racism and racial discrimination till the end of his life, says T P Sreenivasan
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Seeking to energise his second term, US President Obama on Tuesday said he will issue an executive order to raise the minimum wage for government contract workers to $10.10 an hour, a step which he argued would help reduce poverty in the country.
Despite a dull performance in his last week's presidential debate, United States President Barack Obama has termed it as 'bad night' and is confident of winning November 6 election against Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
A blunt warning sent by US President Barack Obama in November 2009, prompted Pakistan to go after the Afghan Taliban leadership, and is being cited as the turning point in the strategic relationship between the two countries.
The latest family picture of the Obamas, looking exceptionally stylish on the joyous occasion of Easter is out.
US President Barack Obama, who announced to send 17,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, has said the Afghan problem can not be resolved by military alone as the war-torn country needs both diplomacy and development to get out of it.
The people of Pakistan welcomed Obama's emphasis on seeking "a new way forward" with the Muslim world "based on mutual interest and mutual respect", Zardari said in a brief statement.
A gathering of Dalits -- intellectuals, government officials, students, activists and the commoners -- came together to not only watch and celebrate the enthronement of 47year old Barak Obama but also to find some thing deeper in it and draw a lesson and get inspiration from it.
India needs to be assertive in its stance that it will not sit down for a dialogue where it is treated at par with its anarchic and erratic neighbour.
The US wants to split Sino-India ties, says the Chinese media.
America's powerful pro-gun National Rifle Association (NRA) has described US President Barack Obama as an "elitist hypocrite" for providing Secret Service protection to his daughters but saying he was "skeptical" about deploying armed guards in schools.
US President Barack Obama's speech to the Muslim world in Egypt Thursday will focus on reconciliation and avoid the apocalyptic vision of the Bush regime, according to experts from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
United States President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle on Monday paid rich tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat, the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi.
The US, whose GDP is $13 trillion, has seen 44 Presidents.
Dating will be a sensitive issue that re-elected United States President Barack Obama will have to deal with as his young daughters stay on at the White House for four more years, with the possessive father saying he will give a patient hearing to any boy who has the 'guts' to get through the Secret Service.
Recently crowned Miss America Nina Davuluri, the first Indian-American to have won the coveted beauty pageant, met United States President Barack Obama on Wednesday when she visited the White House.
There are 'troubling similarities' between US President Barack Obama's financial actions with those of policymakers during the Great Depression in 1930's, a new study has claimed, warning the country's policies might have the potential to consign it to a similar fate as Argentina.
Sticking to his opposition to outsourcing jobs to countries like India, President Barack Obama has said that he wants to give tax breaks to companies that are investing in the United States.
A transition official has confirmed that Obama's foreign policy advisers are discussing the possibility of appointing a special envoy to India, the New York Times said. But the paper quoted another transition official as dismising as "speculation" reports that former President Bill Clinton was being considered for appointment as a special envoy to deal with the Kashmir issue.
Aneesh Chopra, the highest ranking Indian American in the Obama administration, is stepping down from his position as White House Chief Technology Officer, administration officials announced on Friday.
Barack Obama created history when he went to a polling booth in his home town of Chicago to cast his vote, over 12 days ahead of the November 6 elections, thus becoming the first US President to vote early.
Accompanied by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Obama lay flowers at the cenotaph in Hiroshima, which sits in the shadow of a domed building, whose skeleton has been left standing in silent testament to the victims of the first ever nuclear attack.
US President Barack Obama has unveiled a $13 billion plan to develop a nationwide high speed rail network, which he argued "will be faster, cheaper and easier than building more freeways or adding to an already overburdened aviation system".
Bringing cheers to more than 1.5 million Cuban-Americans, the Obama Administration said on Monday it has lifted all restrictions related to the travel of family members to Cuba and removed restrictions on remittances to their family members in the island.
However, nothing is definitively known about the motivation behind this mass shooting, he told reporters at the White House on Sunday afternoon.
United States President-elect Barack Obama, in a statement condoling the deaths of two American citizens in the Mumbai terror attack, declared that these terrorists 'will not defeat India's great democracy'.Obama asserted that "these terrorists who targeted innocent civilians will not defeat India's great democracy nor shake the will of a global coalition to defeat them." "Our thoughts and prayers are with all those who have been touched by this terrible tragedy," he said.
Indian-American Raja Krishnamoorthi, running for office of the Illinois Comptroller in 2010, has got a piece of advice from "close friend and mentor" President Barack Obama-- to "campaign honourably" for the post! Krishnamoorthi met Obama a fortnight ago in the Oval Office and informed him about his decision to run for the office of Comptroller, the state's chief fiscal officer.
In his speech at the Morehouse College Commencement Ceremony in Atlanta, Georgia, Obama asked the young people of his country to work hard.
Seeking to reform the failed regulatory systems and put an end to "bubble and bust economy", US President Barack Obama said that G-20 has rejected protectionism and America was also dedicated to forging consensus rather than dictating its own terms.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had his first substantive meeting with President Barack Obama on Thursday, during which he told the American leader that India would like to carry forward the Indo-US strategic relationship that had developed during the last five years.
Hours before his most crucial moment, Obama lost his 86-year-old grandmother, who was battling with cancer.
Global media mogul Rupert Murdoch has warned that a victory for Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama next week may be "a real setback for globalisation."
'It is important to recognise that insourcing, outsourcing, supply chain complexity, supply chain disaggregation is here to stay'
US President-elect Barack Obama has appointed a 17-member high-level team of advisers including billionaire investor Warren Buffett and Google chief executive Eric Schmidt to guide him in channelising the economy, a media report says.
In a case of political espionage, an unknown "foreign entity" had hacked the entire computer systems of the US presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain this summer, triggering a Federal Bureau of Investigation probe.
Taking a dig at the real estate tycoon, the US president said, "Being president is a serious job. It's not hosting a talk show, or a reality show."
Observing that the Barack Obama administration is looking at Pakistan through a different lens than its predecessors, a former American diplomat on Wednesday said that the new United States government would quietly focus itself on Kashmir, away from the public gaze. William Milam, the former US Ambassador to Pakistan, identified Kashmir as one of the issues on which the Obama administration would focus on while trying to find a solution to Pakistan.
Alleging that Anand Jon was a victim of "conspiracy", "racism" and "prosecution misconduct", the family of the Indian-American fashion designer convicted of sexually assaulting budding models Monday appealed to US President Barack Obama to ensure "justice" for him.
