Pakistan President Arif Alvi has stirred a controversy by proposing a 'one-state solution' to the Palestine problem in a significant departure from established policy, prompting the caretaker government to distance itself from the remarks and calls for his resignation.
History is created as the US Senate opened with a Hindu prayer by Rajan Zed. The Senator who organised the prayer received hundreds of letters and e-mails of protest.
The proposed comprehensive immigration bill if passed by the Congress and signed into law by the US President would bar companies from hiring people on H-1B visa if 50 per cent of their employees are not Americans.
Voicing concern that Pakistan is not doing enough against the Afghan-Taliban, including the Haqqani network, two top US Senators have warned Islamabad that any future terror attack against America or Europe that can be traced back to that country would invite "very serious" consequences.
Democrats narrowly won majority in the United States Senate while Republicans retained the control of the House of Representatives, leaving newly-elected President Barack Obama to deal with a divided Congress once again.
Rajan Zed, the priest who recited a Hindu prayer at the opening session of the US Senate on July 12, has been invited to do the same for the 40-member California State Senate.
Wisconsin Democratic Representative Tammy Baldwin has become the first openly gay United States senator, defeating former Governor Tommy Thompson in the most expensive senate race in state history.
Paving the way for India and the United States to work together in enhancing global energy security, the Senate on Tuesday unanimously cleared a Bill seeking the diversification of sources of energy and stimulating development of alternative fuels.
Suresh Kumar's nomination by United States President Barack Obama, to be assistant secretary of commerce and director general of the United States and Foreign Commerce Service, sailed through two key US Senate Committees last week.Now the full Senate has to vote on his nomination, and sources said he could be in place in his job at Commerce by late February or early March.
The T20 World Cup in the US is a 'landmark event' and there is huge excitement among the diaspora as well as across America, said Consul General of India in New York Binaya Srikanta Pradhan.
Description of an Indian-American political volunteer as a 'macaca', a genus of monkey, by a Republican Senator has cost the lawmaker an award following protests.
US President Barack Obama has claimed victory as the Senate voted to end debate on a massive Wall Street overhaul package, which is said to be the most sweeping reform of the country's financial regulatory system since the Great Depression.
H-1B visa reform bill introduced in US Senate
Early this month, US President Donald Trump had supported such a move by Paul.
The law will check taxpayers' money from being used to pay for the financial mismanagement of institutions.
US Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee, told Rediff.com that he appreciated India's concerns over the massive American military largesse for Pakistan, considering the reports that such aid has often been diverted for a potential military confrontation with India.
The US appears to be using the Indo-US nuclear deal as a vehicle to facilitate a formal entry for the US National Nuclear Security Administration, widely suspected to be involved in a variety of covert nuclear interventions, into India
Garcetti's nomination is pending before the US Congress since July 2021, when he was nominated for the prestigious diplomatic posting by President Joe Biden.
Ties between Pakistan's ISI and Taliban remain troubling for the United States and this relationship should be "fixed", a top US senator has said.
Dr Singh's tough talk has put the onus on the US Senate.
Top American Senators have asked Pentagon to develop a closer defence relationship with India, while emphasising that it is in the interest of both the US and India to continue building a strategic and military culture of cooperation between the two countries.
Republicans and Democrats in the US Senate are working on a provision in the Immigration Bill that will make it harder for illegals to get employment in the country.
A sold-out crowd descended on Eisenhower Park on Sunday for a clash of cricketing arch-rivals India and Pakistan.
Pakistan wanted to be constitutionally communal, India wanted to be secular but is communalising itself. All three nations share a penal code, but they have amended their laws to enable the State to specifically target minorities, points out Aakar Patel.
United States President George W Bush has sent the nomination of Santanu K Baruah, an Indian-origin former management consultant whom he picked as an Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development, to the Senate for approval.
"After talking to the Pakistanis, I don't have any great hopes that they are going to do what ultimately is needed for their own security, and that is to deal with people who are threatening their own sovereignty," Senator Karl Levin told reporters at a Capitol Hill news briefing on his return from the region.
Harris, with only 14 percent saying they would prefer another option, has an overwhelming 70 percent of Democratic voters support, the New York Times cited the poll as saying.
United States Senator John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas, has profusely apologised and expeditiously gone on damage control mode after stating that 'a rising India' is a grave threat to the US. The Senator from Texas states that the F-22's are "important to our national security because we're not just fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. We're fighting --we have graver threats and greater threats than that: From a rising India, with increased exercise of military power'.
An influential United States Senator has demanded a federal investigation into whether Indian-American Nikki Halley, the governor of South Carolina, exploited taxpayer dollars for political purposes. Senator Tom Harkin, in a letter to Daniel R Levinson, the inspector general of the federal Department of Health and Human Services, urged to "examine whether the state of South Carolina met the requirements of federal law in spending its exchange planning grant".
The US Senate has unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution introduced by Senators Bob Casey, Pennsylvania Democrat and George Voinovich, Ohio Republican -- both members of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- condemning the terrorists attacks in Mumbai and applauding India's restraint so far as it investigates the attacks.
A delegation of senior US Senators arrived in India on Monday. The delegation led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer includes Democrats and Republicans.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, and his Republican counterpart, Mitch McConnell, ended a day of constant talks with optimistic proclamations, as details leaked out of the pact they were negotiating.
French organisers turned Paris into an open-air Olympic playground where everyone was invited, with or without a ticket.
"I was pushed onto the bed and Brett (Kavanaugh) got on top of me. He began running his hands over my body and grinding his hips into me...Brett groped me and tried to take off my clothes...I believed he was going to rape me," she said.
