Did Prime Minister Modi receive a different kind of reception at the Biden White House on Friday than he has has been used to at the American president's home?
Report recommends government open up to cooperation with private sector.
A year after Osama bin Laden's death, Al Qaeda is determined to make stay alive, feels Hamid Mir, the last journalist to interview bin Laden.
That does not change with the much-expected new US announcement, it only reiterates the imbalance.
How to co-operate effectively with both India and China without seeming to favour the relationship with one at the cost of the other, will be one of Obama's big challenges, says B Raman
United States President Barack Obama's speeches are widely popular. However, a lot goes into framing the right words for the right occasion.
On the day Obama won, Indian markets reacted positively; even IT stocks gained. Will the trend continue?
For Indian equity investors, Obama's re-election would be a positive for their portfolios and surprise win for Romney might create lot of confidence in large economic business houses in the US. Typically, studies suggest that Democrat presidents are generally better for stock markets than their Republican counterparts, feels Narendar Lokwani of StockFundoo.com
Those on Wall Street cannot resume taking risks without regard for consequences, and expect that next time, American taxpayers will be there to break their fall.
In the last year since the Indian embassy in Kabul was bombed on July 7, allegedly by the Sirajuddin Haqqani faction of the Taliban based in Pakistan's North Waziristan province, India has well and truly joined in United States president Barack Obama's 'AfPak strategy' that is aimed at jointly looking at Afghanistan and Pakistan as the expanded theatre of war against the Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
After the Congress secured an unexpected victory at the recently held Lok Sabha polls, United States President Barack Obama issued a statement, saying he looks forward to "continuing to work with the Indian government to enhance the warm partnership between our two countries." However, the Obama administration has not yet taken any decisive steps toward cementing Indo-US ties, observes a report from California's Pacific Council on International Policy and FICCI.
Wisely skirting a prospective foreign policy pitfall, US President Barack Obama appointed a special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, shelving the controversial idea of appointing an envoy for South Asia.
Is it possible to keep a track presidency with the increase in number of grey hair on the president's head? The answer may be in the affirmative.
United States President Barack Obama secretly offered Pakistan in 2009 that he would nudge India towards negotiations on Kashmir in lieu of it ending support to terrorist groups like Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Taliban, but much to his disappointment Islamabad rejected the offer.
The Obama Administration has announced setting up of an institute for manufacturing innovations which will help prevent jobs going to India and China.
Karl F Inderfurth, who was Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs in the Clinton administration, and Nicholas Burns, who was Under Secretary of State in the Bush Administration, told rediff.com that Obama's endorsement during his address to a joint session of Parliament thus made his visit to India transformational too in a sense as had the trip by Clinton in March of 2000 and Bush in March 2006.
Mitt Romney is meant to be the President of the United States," declared Jeb Bush, the former Governor of Florida.
US-Pakistan relations are poised to touch a qualitatively new level under the Biden administration, notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Though the original phrase doesn't mention Florida (it is Maine), the southern state fits in perfectly if the impact it has had in the United States presidential elections in recent years is taken into consideration.
Jack and Suzy Welch disagree with the President on points of policy but think he's earned an A thus far.
A rare look inside Osama bin Laden's Afghan hideout.
'I give Modi full credit, for brilliantly using his personal diplomacy, his personal stature, to accomplish his goals...'
A state of emergency has been declared in Washington, DC and five states as 30 inches of snow and high winds may shut down up to a third of the country.
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