'There is no meritocracy or at least there is none that is visible and transparent.' 'The Congress has two opportunities to change this,' says Aakar Patel.
Indian-American Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley announced on Tuesday that she would run for the post again.
Asserting that the Articles of Impeachment introduced by the House Judiciary Committee are not recognisable under any standard of constitutional theory, interpretation or jurisprudence, Trump said they include no crimes, no misdemeanours and no offenses whatsoever.
Indian American politicians have denounced a television advertisement by a conservative group called Americans for Job Security that hits at a governor who had earlier favoured outsourcing jobs to India.
"The event is invitation-only for friends and supporters of the Trump-Pence campaign," the Trump campaign said.
"We have great support from India. We have great support from Prime Minister Modi. I would think that the Indian (American) people would be voting for Trump," the President told reporters at a White House news conference.
Within a few hours of Nitish Kumar leaving the NDA, entirely reasonable people were speculating as to how the CBI or ED could be used against him or his party, notes Mihir S Sharma.
'Eight years of what Obama had achieved can be wiped out during the Trump administration,' fears Aseem Chhabra, who worries about his country under'an arrogant bully, who whipped up the worst out of his followers.'
Bush and his wife did not vote for either major-party presidential nominee this year, a spokesman for the former president told the Texas Tribune.
The house of actor Anupam Kher was on Saturday night attacked by alleged activists of Republican Party of India who protested his remarks on the Indian constitution, the police said.
Dalit leaders, including Prakash Ambedkar, Jogendra Kawade, Sulekha Kumbhare and Rajendra Gavai were scheduled to take part in the protest rally.
At the black-tie event, Obama satirised everyone from Democrats to Republicans and from media to his potential White House successors, including Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump issued a scathing response to his indictment by a Manhattan grand jury, describing it as 'political persecution' and election interference at the highest level in history and warning that the 'witch-hunt' will backfire massively on United States President Joe Biden.
Activists of Ramdas Athavale-led Republican Party of India on Friday attacked the Mumbai Congress' newly refurbished office after Athavale's belongings were "thrown out" from his official residence in Delhi, which was allotted to him when he had been a Member of the Parliament.
Haryana Congress chief Bhajan Lal said Umed Singh Kashyap's presence in the party will boost its prospects in the forthcoming Lok Sabha and state assembly elections.
In a statement issued in Mumbai, Athawale, a Bharatiya Janata Party ally and the Union Minister of State for Social Justice, said that he understands people are getting affected by the rising fuel prices.
The RPI-A is an ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
US talk show host and conservative political commentator Rush Limbaugh recently insulted India and Indians, calling those who take outsourced jobs from America 'slumdogs'.
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Sunday suffered a double blow as he lost badly to rivals Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio in polls in the US capital and Wyoming, an indication that the fight for securing the party's nomination was hotting up.
Florida Governor Charlie Crist and former presidential hopeful and ex-Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney have also accepted invitations, fueling speculation that the three (Jindal, Crist, Romney) are the McCain campaign's top choices, and that this weekend's discussions will go a long way in determining who gets the nod.
The resignation was being described as a result of the Republican Party's defeat in the November 7 elections.
Indian-American Nikki Haley, whose bid for the governorship of South Carolina is marred by allegations of extra-marital affair, suffered a setback on Thursday when former vice president Dick Cheney endorsed one of her rivals.
The former Los Angeles mayor's nomination was pending before the US Congress since July 2021 when he was nominated for the prestigious diplomatic posting by Biden.
Cruz only went as far as congratulating Trump, who was his bitter rival in the primary contests.
Thirty seven-year-old Jindal not only appeared on the Fox News channel on Tuesday challenging the health care policy of Obama, but also came out openly against the popular US President by writing an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal.
A video shows Trump attacking and punching a man whose face is obscured by a CNN logo.
The latest GOP sex scandal, however, has more immediate resonance for the Indian American community. South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford is among the biggest backers of Namrata 'Nikki' Randhawa Haley, the three-term Representative from Lexington who recently announced her intention to contest for Governor at the end of Sanford's term.
Barack Obama accepted the Democratic presidential nomination at the Democratic Convention in Denver, Colorado on Thursday night. During his acceptance speech, Obama stressed on the need for change in America and slammed the Republican party's eight-year-rule."Today is a defining moment," said Obama, who created history by being the first African-American presidential nominee of a major party.
A Public Interest Litigation filed in the Bombay High Court has sought to restrain Maharashtra government from extending benefits of reservation to the Maratha community except by following the "due legal procedure".
'I am pleased to announce that I have chose Governor Mike Pence as my Vice Presidential running mate,' Donald Trump wrote on his Twitter handle.
Less than a fortnight left for her first trip to India as the Secretary of State, Clinton had a breakfast meeting with more than a dozen top Congressional leaders from both Democratic and Republican parties on Wednesday, coming from both the chambers of the Congress -- the House of Representative and the Senate.
Daughter of a Punjabi Sikh immigrant from Amritsar, Namrata "Nikki" Randhawa Haley, is another Bobby Jindal in the making. Nikki, 37, as she is popularly known, has announced her candidacy for Republican Party nomination for the Governor of South Carolina, which will go to the polls next year.Presently, she is a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.
Republican Party of India president Ramdas Athawale's supporters on Wednesday staged a rasta roko on the Eastern Express highway in Mulund, Mumbai, alleging that TV channel 'Colors' dropped Athawale from its reality show Bigg Boss-2 because he was a Dalit.
Rediff Labs analysed the past performance of the parties to develop this Sentiment Meter for the 2016 Tamil Nadu election.
Another UP MLA came out in support of Sadhana Singh, saying there was nothing wrong in her remarks.
Influential United States Senator John McCain, who unsuccessfully ran for President, arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday in an unscheduled visit, to show solidarity in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks and discussed the issue with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. McCain, the Republican Party leader, was on his way to Bangladesh and Bhutan but he made a stopover here in view of the Mumbai strikes, sources said.
The US has already imposed sanctions on Turkey for the purchase of a batch of S-400 missile defence systems.
In its set of recommendations, the China Committee said that economic sanctions against China in case of an attack on Taiwan will be most effective if key allies such as G7, NATO, NATO+5, and Quad members join, and negotiating a joint response and broadcasting this message publicly have the added benefit of enhancing deterrence.
American media quoted Trump's attorneys as saying that the 76-year-old Republican leader, eying the White House for a second time in 2024, will plead not guilty.
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