The Obama administration has appointed Dennis Ross as special advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the Gulf region. According to a statement of US State Department, the Gulf region is facing challenges of ongoing conflict, terror, proliferation, access to energy and economic ...

A former Washington state governor named Gary Locke is likely to be nominated as the US commerce secretary. Locke offered his service as country's first Chinese-American governor for two terms from 1997 to 2005. Earlier US President Barack Obama was supposed to pick New Mexico governor Bill ...

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is likely to interrogate the Mumbai terror suspects arrested by Pakistan. Official report confirms that FBI team will arrive in Islamabad by next week to carry on the proceedings. According to an official of Pakistani foreign ministry, the officials of ...

The president of Kyrgyzstan, Kurmanbek Bakiyev signed a bill on Friday (February 20) to close US airbase in the country. The move will halt US military operations against the terror outfits of Afghanistan. The signing of the legislation will force US to leave the Manas airbase in Kyrgyzstan within ...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday (February 17) charged Texas billionaire Allen Stanford and three of his companies with massive fraud. Stanford and two executives were accused of fraudulently selling $8 billion in high-yield certificates of deposit in a scheme that ...

In a bid to revive the declining economy of the country, US President Barack Obama signed the $787-billion economic stimulus bill into law on Tuesday (February 17). After signing the 1,100-page American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Obama said that the legislation is the largest recovery package ...

According to a survey of 65 historians, Abraham Lincoln has been ranked as the best president of United States. The survey conducted by cable channel C-SPAN has also placed the first US president George Washington (1789-1797) and New Deal architect Franklin D Roosevelt (1933-1945) in the second and ...

President Obama's $ 787 billion economic stimulus package was approved by the US House of Representatives on Friday (February 13, 2009), by a vote of 246-83 with no Republican support.
 
This bill is now required to be passed by the US senate before being sent to the President to sign it ...

At least 49 people lost their lives as a commuter aircraft flying from Newark to Buffalo crashed into a house in New York state on Friday (February 13). The 50-seater Continental Airlines Flight 3407 crashed into the house about seven to nine km from Buffalo Niagara International Airport at about ...

Leon Panetta is likely to become the chief of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of US. The Senate Intelligence Committee has unanimously voted on his nomination by President Barack Obama. The nomination of Panetta as CIA Director has been sent for the approval of full Senate. If the US ...

Commemorating the golden jubilee anniversary of the American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr's visit to India in 1959, the US House of Representatives has passed a resolution recognizing Mahatma Gandhi's influence on Martin Luther.
 
The resolution was passed on Wednesday (11th ...

Obama administration has outlined a new campaign strategy for the war against Taliban in Afghanistan. Described as "new realism" by senior officials and diplomats, the new strategy seems to scale back the ambitions of George Bush.
 
Richard Holbrooke, Barack Obama's new envoy ...

The US State Department objected the release of Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan who was accused of running nuclear smuggling network. On Friday (February 6), a Pakistani court declared that Khan should be released from five years of house arrest. The 72-year-old scientist was put onto ...

The 33-year-old Indian American Nicholas Rathod has been appointed to a key White House post by US President Barack Obama. Rathod who earlier worked in Obama's transition team will now hold the post of Deputy Associate Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs at the White House. Under ...

Ending days of speculation, Washington on Thursday (5th February) night announced that, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will take her first trip abroad to Asia. It seems to be a U-turn in traditional American obsession with Europe and the Middle East.
 
Clinton's Asia travel will start ...

In order to tackle country's economic crisis, US President Barack Obama on Friday (February 6) constituted a new bipartisan advisory board. The 17-member advisory board will develop solutions to revive the US economy in this critical phase of recession. The board will have former Federal Reserve ...

The US envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke is likely to make a trip to India in addition to the two countries. Holbrooke will come to the South Asian countries by this week as part of an orientation trip. According to US State Department spokesman Robert Wood, ...

Eric Holder was sworn in as the new US attorney general on Tuesday (February 3). He became the first African-American official to hold the office of US attorney general. After holding his post, Holder stated that there will respect for the rule of law and no political nepotism will be tolerated. ...

Just three months after the nation elected a Democrat as the first African-American president, the Republican Party in USA chose former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, as the first black national chairman in its history on Friday (30th January).  
 
The new GOP chairman, Mr. Steele ...

The governor of the US state of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich has been removed form his office on Thursday (January 29) on charges of trying to sell Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat. The lawmakers have also banned him for holding public office in the state in future. This is the first in more than 20 ...

On Monday 26th (January), US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton named Todd Stern as the USA’s new climate change envoy. Todd Stern will become the country’s chief climate negotiator with the international community. Stern will also be involved in domestic side in the US efforts to ...

In a major victory for Obama administration, on Monday the Senate confirmed the appointment of New York Federal Reserve Bank President Timothy Geithner, as President Obama's treasury secretary.
 
His appointment was confirmed despite personal tax lapses that turned more than a third of the ...

Showing the sign of reversing the previous Bush administration’s climate change policies, new American President Barack Obama said that, America is ready to lead a "truly global coalition" to meet the challenge laid by climate change. But he also stressed the need that countries ...

To put more international pressure on Pakistan for taking action against the perpetrators of Mumbai attacks, a pool of 150 influential Indian-Americans leaders have formed a lobby group in America.
 
The group is likely to meet the members of the new Obama Administration and top Congressmen ...

In a bid to combat terrorism and extremist in Pakistan-Afghanistan region, US president Barack Obama has named Richard Holbrooke as an envoy to the region. Former UN ambassador Richard Holbrooke is considered to be the most efficient diplomats of his generation who will help US to implement a ...

Hillary Clinton replaced Condoleeza Rice as the 67th US secretary of state after the Senate gave its approval. The Senate easily approved Clinton's nomination as top US diplomat despite renewed Republican concerns about potential conflicts of interest created by her husband's foreign fundraising. ...

The new US president Barack Obama is expected to issue an order to shut military prison at Guantanamo Bay and limit CIA's operations. The US president is supposed to ban abusive interrogations and ask for a review of the detention polices implemented on captured militants. According to media ...

Only a day after taking the oath of the office of US president, Barack Obama on Wednesday (January 21) decided to suspend the controversial Guantanamo Bay military tribunals. The Obama administration suspended the criminal trials for 120 days. Within these 120 days, the new administration will ...

Another top Indian-American lawyer, Neal Kumar Katyal has been appointed in the Barack Obama's team. Neal Kumar Katyal has been made the principal deputy Solicitor General of US department of justice. The professor of law at the Georgetown University Law School in Washington, Katyal became the ...

Barack Hussein Obama became the 44th president of the United States when he took the oath at Washington on Tuesday (January 20). The grand oath-taking ceremony of the first black American president was attended by thousands of people. The ceremony was watched over by millions of people all over the ...