Vishwas More, retired chief engineer of the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University labs, who proudly proclaims he is 'a life-long Republican', and a veteran of political conventions, will attend his fifth Republican National Convention this week in Tampa, Florida, as an alternate delegate.
Union ministers Ravneet Singh Bittu and George Kurian were elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha Tuesday along with senior Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi and former minister Upendra Kushwaha.
The new Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal and inconsistent with international law, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said, reversing a Trump-era policy.
Romney's decision leaves Republican front-runner John McCain as the top man standing in the Republican race, with Mike Huckabee far behind in the race.
US President Barack Obama and the Republican party leadership have decided to continue talks to find any possible deal to re-open government and raise the debt ceiling, but there was no immediate resolution in site to end the current impasse.
Vivek Ramaswamy, who dropped out of the race to win the Republican nomination for this November's US presidential election after polling a pathetic 8% in the Iowa caucus, has already begun schmoozing the famously amenable to flattery Donald J Trump.
The EAM when asked about his view of the world at present, said it would be "very grim forecast, for the next five years".
Biden, seeking a second term in the White House, stumbled and fumbled during the televised presidential debate with his predecessor Donald Trump on Thursday night in Atlanta, setting off alarm bells among top Democrats about whether he can stay atop the gruelling months ahead of the elections on November 5.
Describing her Republican rival Donald Trump as an unserious man, Kamala Harris warned Americans of the consequences of re-electing him for the second term.
Following a New York jury's verdict, former President Donald Trump stands convicted on all 34 felony charges of falsifying business records, raising pertinent questions about his future political endeavours and voting rights, CNN reported.
'The wave of terrorism is over in Kashmir. Local people do not support it.'
'We are f#^*@d' Democrats told CNN after Biden's poor performance.
Kamala Harris will be a 'fantastic President of the United States', former president Barack Obama said on Friday, as he and his wife Michelle endorsed her and vowed to do 'everything we can' to enable her to win the high-stakes elections against Donald Trump in November.
Indian-American Republicans hailed former Maryland lieutenant governor Michael Steele's election as the first African-American national chairman of the Republican Party and predicted that he would reverse the GOP's hard right drift and move it back to the centre.
"The time has arrived for Republicans to choose a presidential nominee; a new standard bearer who has the ability and determination to defeat President (Barack) Obama and the strongest commitment to returning America to prosperity and defending our interests and values overseas," McCain said.
Top Republican Senator John McCain on Wednesday endorsed former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in his race to seek party's presidential nomination for the November 2012 elections.
Republican Party leaders have denied extending an invitation to Narendra Modi to address Congressional leaders and Indian-Americans via video link next week.
Bobby Jindal, the Indian American Governor of Louisiana and rising Republican star, has failed to find a place in the latest CNN poll for his party's favourite presidential nominee for 2012, with Sarah Palin emerging as one of the top contenders. The meteoric rise of 37 year-old Jindal, son of Indian immigrants, had led to speculation that he might bag the Republican nomination for the 2012 presidential election.
Harris, who is of Indian and African heritage, has received the backing from more than the 1,976 pledged delegates needed to win the Democratic Party's nomination on the first ballot, CNN reported on the first full day of her campaign.
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has vowed that he will pardon all peaceful January 6 protesters if he gets elected as the next United States president in 2024.
The mispronunciation outraged a large number of Harris' supporters and her spokesperson Sabrina Singh said, "I'll keep it simple: If you can pronounce 'former' Senator David Perdue, you can pronounce 'future' Vice President Kamala Harris."
People in large numbers participated in the India Day Parade held in New York, United States.
The third phase of polling will take place on May 7, 2024.
The US is looking very carefully at what Modi did when he was in Moscow, a senior State Department official has told lawmakers concerned over the growing India-Russia ties.
A growing wave of lawmakers have called on the defiant US presidential nominee Donald Trump to drop out of the race in the wake of a video showing him make crude sexual remarks.
Supriya Sule and her sister-in-law Sunetra Pawar file their nominations for the Baramati Lok Sabha seat.
Rumours of a joint ticket between the two men in the 2024 race were fanned by the Trump campaign's praise for Ramaswamy after the first Republican primary debate on Wednesday, in which he emerged as a breakout star.
All efforts by Republican Presidential nominee John McCain to establish himself as a "change factor" seems to have gone in vain, with a recent poll indicating that most American voter still consider him as a "typical Republican." In one of the sharpest differences highlighted in the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, 65 per cent of those polled said that Obama would bring real change to Washington, with only 37 per cent voting in favour of McCain.
Huckabee's wins have come as a blow for former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, who scored victories in Utah, Colorado, North Dakota, Minnesota, Montana and Massachusetts, his home state.
The leader of Nepal's largest communist party was appointed as prime minister on Sunday by President Ram Chandra Paudel to lead the coalition government with the Nepali Congress (NC), the largest party in Parliament, apart from other smaller parties.
Kamala Harris used her forceful presidential acceptance speech to present herself as a leader who could unite the country to chart a 'new way forward' and warned Americans of 'extremely serious' consequences of putting her Republican rival Donald Trump back in the White House.
Lady Gaga brings cabaret to Paris opening ceremony on the Seine
Indian-American multimillionaire biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy's popularity rating and online fundraising have surged, a day after his impressive performance at the first Republican presidential primary debate.
In a debacle for Barack Obama and the Democratic Party, Republicans today gained control of the United States Senate and increased its majority in the House of Representatives in a sweeping midterm election win that could complicate the President's final two years in office.
Harris, 59, is scheduled to formally accept the Democratic Party's presidential nomination on Thursday to take on Republican rival Donald Trump, 78, in the November 5 election.
The newly formed Republican Indian Committee in the United States has appointed Armeane M Choksi -- former World Bank official and venture capitalist and now real estate developer, adjunct professor and community activist -- as its first national president.
Credit owes in large measure to Indian American Gopal TK Krishna for the Republican Party's amended platform acknowledging India's importance to the US as never before, reports Aziz Haniffa from Washington, DC
'I think of that young baby, still in her diapers, balancing with her arms held up by her mother, a Tamil woman wearing a salwar kameez and a dupatta, seated on a stoop,' recalls Aseem Chhabra.
Joe Biden, seeking a second term in the White House, stumbled in his first televised presidential debate with his predecessor Donald Trump, setting off alarm bells among top Democrats about whether the incumbent President can stay atop in the gruelling months ahead of the elections.
US Vice President Kamala Harris, who is of Indian and African heritage, has formally secured the Democratic presidential nomination becoming the first Indian-American to win the nomination from a major political party, and chose Minnesota Gov Tim Walz as her running mate on Tuesday.
