US Republican front runner Donald Trump on Thursday came under a brutal attack from party's former presidential nominee Mitt Romney who called him "phony and a fraud".
"There has been increasing international pressure on Pakistan to break off this intimate relationship between the ISI and LeT, but it has thus far come to naught," Ashley Tellis, who is senior associate, South Asia Programme with the Carnegie Endowment for Peace, said in his latest policy outlook The Menace That Is Lashkar-e-Tayiba.
Rediff.com's Bikash Mohapatra, who is covering the US presidential elections, was at the Republican rally in Tampa, Florida where Mitt Romney resumed his poll campaign after a two-day break owing to superstorm Sandy
Two nights after they clashed at a fierce presidential debate, United States President Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney shared the stage again at a high-profile charity dinner in New York, this time trading light-hearted jabs, poking fun at each other and at the bitter election campaign.
With just a day to go for the United States presidential elections, both contestants -- incumbent Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney -- are leaving no stone unturned to woo the voters and were engaged in a heated exchange of words in their final leg of campaigning.
With President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney locked in an intense battle for the White House, Americans on Tuesday voted in an election that followed one of the most expensive and negative campaigns, with pundits predicting a wafer-thin win for the incumbent.
As US heads to a neck-to-neck battle between the two presidential candidates, the state of Ohio may hold the key to the eventual outcome, says Bikash Mohapatra
Santorum's sudden announcement on Tuesday came a day after his campaign said that his youngest daughter, Bella, has been released from hospital and that he would resume his campaign.
An emotional United States President Barack Obama concluded his final speech of his aggressive re-election campaign against rival Mitt Romney with a tear rolling down his cheek.
Texas Congressman Ron Paul has suspended his presidential campaign, thus ending Mitt Romney's last remaining primary challenge.
Clinton campaign said that Trump Campaign did not compete harder.
A win for Trump, 69, as latest polls indicate, could very well bring the billionaire real estate magnate very closer to the magical figure of 1,237 delegates needed the win the party's presidential nomination for the November 8 election.
After a slow start to the campaign, US President Barack Obama has bounced back with a masterstroke, reports Rediff.com's Bikash Mohapatra, who is covering the American presidential elections.
United States President Barack Obama campaign's heavy focus on women's issues for the past one year paid off in a big way, paving the way for his victory in the White House race with an 18-point gender gap.According to CNN's exit polls, 55 percent of women voted for Obama, while only 44 percent voted for Mitt Romney.
What came through from both candidates instead, was America's exaggerated sense in seeing itself as arbiter of justice, democracy and safety in the world. And a worrisome dismissal of one major truth -- anti-Americanism as a result of its sometimes ill strategised interventions in the affairs of another country which is perhaps as grave a threat to America today as international terrorism, says Maya Mirchandani.
When the three presidential debates are taken as whole, it is clear that a fortnight before the polling day, the campaign is shaping up to be a contest between the lack-lustre record of an incumbent president and the lack-lustre policy vision of his challenger, argues B Raman.
A legislation has been introduced in the United States Congress for countering the Chinese propaganda by creating a new sanctions authority against state-backed disinformation networks.
United States President Barack Obama would be more aggressive during his second debate on Tuesday against his Republican challenger Mitt Romney after a lackluster performance in the first showdown, his top campaign adviser said on Monday.
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'It is important to recognise that insourcing, outsourcing, supply chain complexity, supply chain disaggregation is here to stay'
The White House and the Indian-American community are solidly backing the nomination of Neera Tanden as the director of Office of Management and Budget, describing her as the most appropriate candidate to hold the position.
Five states will go to the polls including Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio as well as the Northern Mariana Islands.
United States President Barack Obama on Monday welcomed Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan to the presidential race but added that he fundamentally disagrees with his vision, which, if implemented, would take the nation backward. "Just last morning, my opponent chose his running mate, the ideological leader of the Republicans in Congress Mr Paul Ryan. I want to congratulate Congressman Ryan," Obama said at a campaign event in Chicago.
Louisiana's Indian-American governor Bobby Jindal has trashed Barack Obama, saying the US President was the "most liberal and incompetent president since Jimmy Carter".
"If the election were held today, I think it would be close but I think we'd win. And we now have 99 days left. If I can say that every single day for the next 99 days, then we will be able to embark on the next phase of this journey," Obama said at a campaign event in New York on Monday.
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll stated that the two leaders, ahead of the first presidential debate, are locked in a neck-and-neck battle with just over a month to go for the elections.
Senator John McCain has won the Florida Republican primary, relegating former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney to second place.The victory further established Arizona senator McCain as the front runner in the Republican presidential race. Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton won the Florida Democratic presidential primary. Clinton scored a comfortable victory over rival Senator Barack Obama by receiving 48 per cent of the vote with 19 per cent of the vote counted.
The Republican-majority Senate voted 52-48 to acquit him of abuse of power and 53-47 to acquit him of obstruction of Congress, thus preventing the Democratic move to overthrow him, for which they required two-thirds of votes in the 100-member House.
Bush and Obama were kind; Trump couldn't care less.
The former secretary of state, 68, "continues to remain healthy and fit to serve as president of the United States," her personal physician Lisa Bardack wrote.
The United States has announced to reduce the number of American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq to 2,500 each by January 15 next year, which drew sharp reaction from influential lawmakers across the aisle.
Republican presidential presumptive nominee Donald Trump would throw the United States economy back into recession, his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton said.
Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton registers her first 'win' by four votes to two against Trump.
If elected, Niraj Antani, 23, will be the second Indian American -- after Jay Goyal, who served 3 terms from 2006 from the 73rd District -- in the Ohio House. George Joseph reports
But his nature, temperament, his skill to listen to others, and empathise with their pain and hardships will make him a far better president, a leader America has been longing for four years, notes Aseem Chhabra.
Trump is the first nominee of a major party in over a century to have no experience whatsoever of any political, administrative or military office.
All this caucus talk and the US elections itself has left you confused, don't worry, we're here to help.
More than two dozen Indian-Americans are in electoral fray for the crucial US elections, but all eyes would be on three young leaders -- South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and Congressmen Ami Bera and Ro Khanna, who have made a mark in the country's politics.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has once again courted controversy as it released heavily redacted files from its 2001 investigation of President Bill Clinton's pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich, just one week from election day.
Tillerson is a veteran chief executive who has had extensive overseas business dealings but his relationships with foreign leaders could complicate his confirmation prospects.
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