US President Donald Trump stated that Iran is eager to make a deal and predicted a sharp decline in oil prices due to abundant supply, amidst a Senate resolution to limit his war powers in Iran.
His victory means that his party will have to learn from him, because after the rise of Donald Trump, the Democrats have been in disarray. They have had no real answer to the Trump phenomenon and Zohran, with his emphatic and clear policies aimed at working class Americans offers them a national path for a return, asserts Aakar Patel.
US lawmakers have written to the Indian Ambassador to the US, expressing concern over the prolonged detention of activist Umar Khalid and urging a fair trial in accordance with international law.
Indian-origin lawmaker Zohran Kwame Mamdani stunned in the Democratic primary race for New York City mayor, upsetting former governor Andrew Cuomo.
The announcement from the Vermont Senator was expected as he had not done well in the recent Democratic primaries against Biden, 77, who has now taken a substantial lead over him after winning a series of key Democratic presidential primaries.
The "Super Tuesday", or March 3 presidential primaries, were held in as many as 15 states including Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Virginia. Biden, 77, registered impressive victories in the states of Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Minnesota, Massachusetts and Arkansas, propelling him as the frontrunner in the primaries. However, Sanders, 78, by winning big in the State of California -- which sends 415 pledge delegates -- reflected the fight to win Democratic nomination to challenge Republican incumbent Donald Trump was not over yet.
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders tangled in their first one-on-one debate over how to achieve liberal goals such as health care for all and a better education system.
Clinton and Sanders, meeting for the debate in Brooklyn just days before the crucial presidential primary in New York on April 19, minced no words as they attacked each other.
Democratic Party bosses have apologised to Bernie Sanders for "inexcusable" emails aimed at undermining his White House bid.
Zohram Kwame Mamdani would be the city's first Muslim and Indian American mayor if elected New York mayor this November.
"Trump is a bully and a demagogue," said Sanders whose call to support party nominee Clinton was met with loud jeers and cries of "We want Bernie!" from the fired-up crowd.
It will be his second consecutive bid for the Democratic nomination after losing to Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Democrats have coalesced around Clinton's candidacy and has led with endorsements from President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and others.
Bernie Sanders on Sunday trounced Hillary Clinton in the crucial presidential caucuses in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii, making "inroads" into her substantial lead.
In a show of unity, Bernie Sanders moved that "Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of the Democratic party for president of the United States.
Sanders is the second Democratic presidential nominee after Senator Elizabeth Warren to speak against the violence over the Citizenship Amendment Act in New Delhi.
Bernie Sanders alleged that Clinton is not qualified to be the president.
Clinton's defeat in Michigan is an indication of the challenges she might face in the rest of her presidential campaign.
Bernie Sanders would join presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at an election rally in New Hampshireon Tuesday, the two campaigns said even though the Vermont senator has yet to endorse his former rival for the party nomination.
Warren urged India to respect the rights of the people of Kashmir.
Trump also said that he has also used the H-1B visa programme.
India's action is unacceptable, says US Senator Bernie Sanders.
Donald Trump has backed out of a televised debate against Democrat Bernie Sanders just two days after agreeing.
Notably, Clinton is yet to reach the requisite number of delegates to be called as the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee.
The Vermont Senator and Texas senator are closing in on the lead that their competitors - Clinton and Trump hold.
Bernie Sanders has vowed to work with presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to defeat Republican Donald Trump in the November polls, but declined to bow out of his race to the White House.
Clinton win potentially disrupts a string of expected primary losses this month that had threatened to weaken her even as she turned her focus to her likely matchup against Republican Donald Trump in the general election.
With one-fifth of the votes being counted, Tea Party favourite Cruz had taken an insurmountable lead of more than 70,000 votes with an over 20 per cent lead over Trump.
Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has won the West Virginia primary defeating Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton by more than 15 percentage points even as the former US secretary of state looks set to secure the party nomination.
Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton will face her first major political test on Wednesday when she shares the stage with four other aspirants at the party's inaugural debate of the 2016 presidential campaign.
US presidential aspirants Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on Friday tried to woo minority Latino and African American voters as they sparred over issues like race and their records on immigration during a Democratic debate.
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders held a fierce and substantive debate on Sunday night, disagreeing over trade, guns, the auto industry and Wall Street.
Hours before the party's convention, Chairwoman of the Democratic party Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned.
Hillary Clinton inflicted a massive defeat on Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary in South Carolina.
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders cruised to early victories in the New Hampshire primary.
Harris will appoint hundreds of extreme far-left judges to 'forcibly impose crazy San Francisco liberal values' on Americans nationwide, he alleged, invoking the spectre of San Francisco -- a liberal city long used as shorthand by conservatives eager to denigrate Democrats.
The Democratic convention to anoint Hillary Clinton as the presidential nominee and make her the first woman flagbearer of any major American political party began on Monday.
Clinton avoided giving a direct answer to the question, while Sanders responded by saying that the American people will never elect a president who insults Mexicans, Muslims, women and blacks.
'To everyone voting for Trump, I have only this simple question: Would you let him have lunch with your daughter or sister or wife or mother?' 'Then why would you let him have our lunch (and so much more) for four more years?', asks Sree Sreenivasan.
Ahead of Trump's inauguration here on January 20, the debate on foreign guest workers visas for highly skilled professionals, the H-1B, has intensified which has literally created divisions in both the Democratic and the Republican parties.
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