"It also, however, increases demand. So, for example, just as an interesting thought for you, there are 350 million people in India who are classified as middle class. That's bigger than America. Their middle class is larger than our entire population." "And when you start getting wealth, you start demanding better nutrition and better food, and so demand is high, and that causes the price to go up," Bush said.
Bush's approval rating, which stands at 28 percent in our new poll, remains better than the all-time lows set by Harry Truman and Richard Nixon (22 percent and 24 percent respectively), but even those two presidents never got a disapproval rating in the 70s. The poll also indicates that support for the war in Iraq has never been lower. Thirty percent of those questioned favoured the war, while 68 percent opposed it.
Expressing concern over the situations in Tibet and Myanmar, President George W Bush has said that the United States is working with India to promote democracy and peace throughout Asia. welcome the recent statements by the Chinese government expressing its willingness to meet with representatives of the Dalai Lama -- precisely what I have suggested to President Hu Jintao do," Bush said. "My administration has tightened sanctions on the military regime in Burma," Bush said.
Hu, also general secretary of the ruling Communist Party of China, will attend the multilateral meeting of leaders of five developing countries -- India, Brazil, China, Mexico and South Africa on June 8.
Israeli Ambassador Benny Dagan was delivering a lecture at the University of Stockholm yesterday on the Jewish state's recent military offensive in Gaza, 'Operation Cast Lead', when a 35-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman threw a shoe and a book at him, the media in Jerusalem reported on Thursday.
Lawmakers and observers have noted that the Senate is merely taking up comprehensive immigration reforms and completion of this Bill is a long way off, he said.
Indian-American Governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal has been invited to deliver a key-note address to the national fundraising of the Republican Party.Jindal, 37, is now considered a rising star of the Republican Party, which is desperately looking for a dynamic and charismatic personality to lead the party in the 2012 presidential elections. The US media speculated that the party is gearing to project Jindal as the nominee for the 2012 presidential elections.
Porter Goss has stepped down as director of the Central Intelligence Agency plunging into uncertainty the world's biggest spy agency shaken by recent intelligence failures and internal turmoil.
Singh accepted Bush's invitation to visit the US again and said a mutually convenient date would be worked out.
The Iraqi journalist, who threw shoes at outgoing US President George W Bush during a press conference in Baghdad last month, will seek political asylum in Switzerland, according to his lawyer.
Close on the heels of high-level talks in Washington on the 123 Agreement, where "extensive progress" was made, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said the strategic partnership between the two countries has truly matured.
As India finalised its steps to open up the economy for investing and trade, Bush cleared the way for US companies to set up shop in India. The rise of India's IT and BPO industries -- which today are synonymous with India the world over -- owes a great deal to the policies pursued by George W Bush, says Matthew Schneeberger in his ongoing series summing up the Bush administration
US President George W Bush has said America continues to face grave threat from terrorists, who are not only determined but also are patiently waiting to strike back.
Should Iraq, today a fledgeling and frail democratic republic, one day become a bastion for freedom and human rights in the Middle East, leading to the domino-like collapse of military and theocratic dictatorships in the region, perhaps historians will judge Bush more kindly than the commentators, says Matthew Schneeberger
At the fag end of his presidency, George W Bush has acknowledged his disappointment at the CIA giving him wrong information about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, on the premise of which America invaded that country.
The State of the Union address is an annual political event in which the US president, presents to both Houses of the US Congress and the nation at large, his proposed federal budget for the upcoming calendar year within the framework of the past year's events and the general direction in which the country is heading. And Bush's was one for the ages, for all the wrong reasons.
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to meet United States President George W Bush on Monday and brief him on the progress in the negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency on the India-US nuclear agreement.Mukherjee will also be holding discussions with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other top officials of the Bush administration. The visit takes place within days of Mukherjee stating that India can neither mend nor end the deal.
If ever you sought a living, breathing tableau of recent US Presidential history, Wednesday was it, when President-elect Barack Obama met with outgoing President George W Bush and all three living former presidents in the first such meeting at the White House since 1981
Minal's family was informed of her death a day later as shse had been rushed to Blacksburg the same day.
Energy security concerns figured prominently during talks Minister of Science and Technology Kapil Sibal had with several US senators and Congressmen in Washington.
The historic India-United States civil nuclear agreement, which 'reshaped the relationship between' the two countries, is one of the major achievements of the eight-year-long Bush administration, the White House has said.With less than three weeks for incumbent George W Bush to hand over the presidency to Barack Obama, the White House has published two documents highlighting the major achievements of Bush's eight years (2001 to 2009) of rule as the President of the US.
The world's most notorious pair of black leather shoes, that made history, has even generated 100 jobs in Turkey.
The Bush administration has said it continues to support embattled President Pervez Musharraf, whose allies were routed in Pakistan's general election, while maintaining that Washington has no role in the formation of a new government in Islamabad.
The next three months will be a wrenching time for every player in the North American motor industry as the Detroit carmakers seek to prove their long-term viability.
Muntazer, 30, was initially sentenced to three years for assaulting a foreign head of state but had his jail time reduced to one year on appeal. He is being freed early because of good behaviour.
In preparation for his early release next Monday, following a presidential pardon, the offers are rolling in for Zaidi who has won the adulation of millions in the Arab world, The Guardian reported.
Foreign hand fuelling insurgency: Pakistan
National Security Advisor M K Narayanan, who was part of the Indian delegation that held talks with the US side, on Thursday confirmed that the deal was clinched.
Bush nominated Mumbai-born Jamshed Kersasp Choksy to the Council, which is part of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The nominations of Choksy and other members to the 26-member body await Senate confirmation. 'It is an honor to have been nominated by the President,' Professor Choksy said. 'If confirmed by the Senate, I look forward to serving this great nation and ensuring the vibrancy of the humanities in our society.'
Pakistan plans to ask Bush to allow American investors, in line with IAEA safeguards.
China has said that it enjoys good relations with both India and Pakistan.
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday on a day's visit, during which New Delhi is expected to share with her evidence on the Mumbai terror strikes, pointing towards involvement of 'elements' based in Pakistan.
The $3 trillion plus budget presented on Monday by President George W Bush has called for increase in funding to support key allies in the global war against terrorism as well as funding to improve response to international crises.
The US has sent an Federal Bureau of Investigation team to assist in the probe into the Mumbai attacks as President George W Bush pledged "full support" to India in its efforts to unearth the plot behind the deadly terror strikes.
Terrorists will not have the last word and the financial capital of India will continue to be the "centre of commerce and prosperity," Bush said at the South Lawn of the White House upon his return from Camp David. "We pledge the full support of the United States as India investigates these attacks, brings the guilty to justice and sustains its democratic way of life."
United States President George W Bush, who continues to be briefed on the terror attack in Mumbai by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as he spends the Thanksgiving holiday weekend at the presidential retreat in Camp David, has condoled the deaths of two Americans in the attack."Laura and I are deeply saddened that at least two Americans were killed and others injured in Wednesday's horrific attacks in Mumbai," said a statement by the President.
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