The US-India relationship will continue to be misread until India recognises that relations with a democratic superpower-- tossed about by the expectations of two separate electorates--will be inevitably more complex than the stolid handshake of the Soviet Union, or the posturing and sloganeering of the Non-Aligned Movement.
Aziz Haniffa/Rediff.com reports from Washington, DC, on what makes Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama get along so well.
A coalition of Asian-American groups led by activist Deepa Iyer recently met United States President Barack Obama to urge him to support family reunification in the new comprehensive immigration reform bill.
The capital city is gearing up ahead of US President Barack Obama's visit to India on Republic Day in a few days. And while top security officials are busy turning Delhi into a fortress, here's a sneak peek into the presidential suite where the Obamas will stay during their three-day visit to the country.
Most of the media reports said that Biden's announcement on his re-election bid might come after the conclusion of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
The Digital Policy Council, an international, non-partisan 'think tank' on 21st Century Governance, has released its 2012 ranking report on the use of social media by heads of state.
Ambassador Islam 'Isi' Siddiqui, one of the highest ranking Indian Americans in the Obama administration, has resigned from his position as chief agricultural negotiator in the office of the United States Trade Representative.
Decisions taken during the meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama will take the bilateral strategic ties to an "altogether new high", India Inc said.
The United States House of Representatives has voted to sue President Barack Obama for overstepping his authority in making unilateral changes to the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
United States President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have made the first use of the secure hotline set up between Washington and New Delhi as they reviewed progress on key areas of cooperation and discussed global issues ahead of the upcoming G-20 summit.
Indian Ambassador to the United States Dr S Jaishankar told Rediff.com's Aziz Haniffa that it was "a very nice meeting and President Barack Obama was extremely cordial."
'Trump will absolutely back New Delhi on its position that Pakistan must do more to crack down on terrorists that threaten India.'
This is a severe blow to Obama, who lobbied hard against the bill, known as the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act.
Popular Indian American actor Kalpen Modi alias Kal Penn, a surrogate for the Obama campaign, has argued that South Asian Americans can be the swing vote in November's presidential election and help assure that the presumptive Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama is elected President.
The US president was joined by French President Francois Hollande and mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo as he placed a single flower at a makeshift memorial at the site of the horrific atrocity.
The remarks are reported in Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Donald Trump, by Edward-Isaac Dovere, a staff writer at the Atlantic magazine, which will be published next week.
The US president acknowledged that it was former prime minister Manmohan Singh who had scripted the nuclear deal, Congress leader Anand Sharma, was part of the delegation that met the former, tells Rashmi Sehgal.
President Barack Obama would cast his ballot on Friday for the November 6 US presidential elections, thus becoming the first US President to vote early in the country's electoral history.
The United States looks forward to enhancing strategic partnership with India and is likely to make some announcements on it 'fairly soon'. Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in his confirmation hearing, Robert Blake told American Senators that Obama is committed to strengthening the existing strategic partnership between the two countries. "President Obama has said that the United States sees India as a global power," he said.
US First Lady Michelle Obama, known for her impeccable fashion sense, got a Pashmina shawl from Kashmir with intricate embroidery as gift from President Pranab Mukherjee's wife Suvra Mukherjee.
The US Chamber of Commerce has written the President complaining of India's discrimination against a wide range of US exports.
Kamala Harris, California's Attorney General who is on the cusp of becoming the first Indian-American Senator in the US Congress, may push for strong India-US ties as a protege of President Barack Obama.
Obama thinks Modi has a clear vision for where he wants to take his country, says the White House.
22 images that captures glimpses of a most unusual Indian who led the nation for 10 years.
'Our goal is to leave this relationship in a fundamentally different place than it was when President Obama took office and when Prime Minister Modi took office and we believe that we have a unique moment of opportunity to have that kind of breakthrough.'
Trump also reiterated his stand and said he does not regret having criticised the parents of a slain American Muslim soldier Humayun Khan.
Congratulating President-elect Donald Trump on his election victory, President Barack Obama said the nation is now "rooting" for his success in uniting and leading the country and pledged to ensure a smooth transition for his successor.
Barack Obama, who entered the White House last January riding a popularity wave, has showed signs of frustration at the turn of events in the recent past. The US President said that he had, for two years, the privilege of traveling across the country and got the chance to talk to people, went to diners and sat in barbershops, and heard directly about the challenges that the people were facing in their lives, and the opportunities that they were taking advantage of.
'China is not a disinterested observer in South Asia. It is in possession of part of Jammu and Kashmir and has been an unscrupulous supplier of arms and war-like nuclear material to Pakistan.'
Perhaps to quash the persistent criticism that his administration is not as gung-ho about the US-India relationship as was his predecessor W Bush, President Obama will attend and deliver remarks at Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's reception June 3 at the State Department, in honor of the Indian delegation at the US-India Strategic Dialogue.
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.
The US president used his eight and final State of the Union address to take on his critics, particularly those in the Republican Party running for president.
He is capable of neutralising three men at one go in the event of an attack, an Indian security source revealed, speaking with some awe.
Why President-elect Obama is scouring the internet. Obama, along with his deputy Joe Biden, is looking for people for 'non-career positions' in the White House or any Federal body.The call for applicants online is another affirmation of the 'tech-savvy' Obama, who has exploited electronic and new media like never before during his Presidential campaign.
'We should dream not about a permanent seat at the horse-shoe table in the United Nations, but of a mature balanced and beneficial relationship with the US.'
Reports (not denied by India) that the USA had 'for the first time provided real-time details to their Indian counterparts on the Chinese positions and force strength in advance of a PLA incursion' into Tawang at the LAC in December 2022, helping India thwart China's expansionist designs, show how operationally effective the USA-India friendship has become on the ground. A engaging excerpt from Sreeram Chaulia's must-read new book, Friends: India's Closest Strategic Partners.
The comprehensive Senate immigration reform legislation, America Inc thinks, will adversely affect Indian IT companies and will have an inimical spillover impact on American firms too.
Trump, naturally, disagreed. He took to his preferred medium -- Twitter -- to offer his reaction. "President Obama said that he thinks he would have won against me. He should say that but I say NO WAY!" Trump wrote.
PM Modi, President Pranab and the Obamas enjoyed high tea at Rashtrapati Bhavan
Few leaders have been more defined by their speeches as the current leader of the free world.
