Obama And India

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  Policies Of President Barack Obama Helped India: US Official

  The changing demographics of the US does not support the views of the Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, a former senior US official today said even as he termed "restraint" as the leitmotif of President's Obama policy.

• Obama's support to India's UNSC bid not at Pak expense: US

  US has briefed Pakistan on President Barack Obama's decision to endorse India for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council and assured Islamabad that his support to the bid is not at its expense."We have briefed the government of Pakistan on the President's announcement. I'm not aware that there was any particular concern expressed," State Depar...

• US officials tiff with security men over access to venue

  American officials and media today had a tiff with Indian security personnel over access to a venue for a photo op of a meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President Barack Obama.The incident took place at Hyderabad House when the American side wanted eight "pool" photo-journalists to be allowed inside to cover the event, sources s...

• Obama visit: No hyphens in India

  At a panel discussion last week on relations between India and the United States, Strobe Talbott, the former American diplomat, told an audience of Indian business leaders that he had learned a valuable lesson about India: Do not hyphenate it. As in Indo-Pak. (Or, in a close cousin of a hyphen, as in Chindia.) The audience smiled at his epiphany: I...

• What Ministry of Defence wants from Obama's visit

  On his three day visit to India, beginning today, US President Barack Obama is likely to push for more defence sales. On the agenda would be:The Indian Air Force (IAF) wants to buy 126 combat jets worth nearly $11 billion, which are up for grabs. Lockheed Martin and Boeing are two among the six worldwide contenders currently competing for the order...

• Full text of Obama's statement in which he mentions about his India visit

  Following is the full text of the remarks made by US President Barack Obama on the October Jobs Report in which he mentions about his India visit:Good morning, everybody. We are in the middle of a tough fight to get our economy growing faster, so that businesses across our country can open and expand, so that people can find good jobs, and so that ...

• My goal is to double US exports: Obama

  US President Barack Obama left for Mumbai on Friday, saying he would seek to prise open the Indian market for American businesses during his maiden visit to the country that is expected to give a fresh impetus to bilateral strategic and economic partnership.In a statement before leaving for his four-nation Asia tour starting with India, Obama said ...

• Obama nominates Indian American to key USAID post

  The US President Barack Obama has nominated Indian-American Nisha Desai Biswal as Assistant Administrator for Asia in the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).Incidentally, USAID is headed by Raj Shah, who is the highest ranking Indian-American in the Obama Administration. Biswal is currently a Majority Clerk for the State Dep...

• Obama excited about India visit

  US President Barack Obama on Monday said that, he was "very much" looking forward to his visit to India in November. Obama met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Toronto and discussed the entire gamut of bilateral ties.Obama and Singh had their second substantive dialogue in two months on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit and are understood to have di...