Washington: India’s celebrated chef Sanjeev Kapoor was recently given a rare insight into the historic kitchen of the White House, which prepares the food for US President Barack Obama, his family and the large number of guests, who are invited to the residence of the first family everyday. On Saturday, Kapoor was not only [...]
Washington: Many regions of India continue to grow rapidly and are opening door for “unprecedented” opportunities for American companies, US commerce secretary John Bryson has said. This is true of Canadian companies too as Canada and India work towards a Free Trade Agreement. Bryson, who was on a visit to India last week with [...]
Tripoli: Muammar Gaddafi, who ruled Libya with an iron fist for over 40 years, was killed Thursday after being on the run for some two months when he repeatedly vowed to keep fighting until death. The eccentric 69-year-old, who preached a strange cocktail of ideology based on Islam and socialism, died in his hometown [...]
US President Barack Obama is touting the revival of a bailed-out auto company as a vindication of his administration’s controversial decision to bail out the financially strapped auto industry last year. A week after General Motors’ post-bankruptcy stock sale smashed records on Wall Street, Obama told an assembled group of autoworkers at a Chrysler plant [...]
Pakistan has said that it has highlighted the Kashmir issue with a “new spirit” and in such a way that it has “resonated across the world.” Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi also said that Pakistan will continue providing moral and diplomatic support to the Kashmiri people. Qureshi, who was in his hometown Multan for the Eid-ul-Azha festival, [...]
The Pakistani government has condemned the US backing for a permanent seat for arch-rival India on the UN Security Council as “incomprehensible”. A federal cabinet resolution “expressed its serious concern and strong disappointment on the decision of the United States to support a permanent seat for India on the UN Security Council,” a foreign ministry [...]
US President Barack Obama’s announcement of support for India’s permanent membership in the UN Security Council (UNSC) is essentially “a cheque that cannot be easily cashed”, said a Chinese daily. In an article titled “Obama greets India with more than a lip service?” in People’s Daily, columnist Li Hongmei wrote: “Much to the delight of [...]
US President Barack Obama held up his boyhood home of Indonesia as an example to the Muslim world in a speech on Wednesday in which he said America was not at war with Islam but acknowledged it was hard to eradicate “years of mistrust”. “Relations between the United States and Muslim communities have frayed over [...]
India has a plan to save the world economy. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday announced a “vision” of rebalancing the global economy through the building of infrastructure in the developing world. Mentioned at the end of his joint press conference with US President Barack Obama, Singh’s plan amounts to one of the most ambitious [...]
Chinese President Hu Jintao has been named the most powerful person in the world by Forbes, ahead of US President Barack Obama who is ranked second among 68 people “who matter,” a list that also includes Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Gandhi ranks 9th on the Forbes 2010 list of the [...]
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