Obama India Visit

Two days ahead of the visit of US President Barack Obama, IT industry body Nasscom has shot off a letter to the US ambassador in India, Timothy Roemer, flagging concerns about rejection of business visas for Indian IT firms.There have been concerns in the industry over an increasing number of visa applications by Indian IT companies being rejected....

US President Barack Obama may be the world's most powerful leader, but when he steps into Rajghat to pay homage to Mahatma Gandhi, he will be treated like any other visitor.So says Rajghat Samadhi Committee secretary Rajnish Kumar, adding that the blackstone memorial on the bank of the Yamuna doesn't differentiate between people because that would ...

The White House will, of course, stay in Washington but the heart of the famous building will move to India when President Barack Obama lands in Mumbai on Saturday.Communications set-up and nuclear button and majority of the White House staff will be in India accompanying the President on this three-day visit that will cover Mumbai and Delhi.He wil...

Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao briefed the press in New Delhi today about the upcoming visit of US President Barack Obama. "Our Prime Minister visited US in November 2009 and was given honour of first state visit of Obama administration. President Obama's visit will reciprocate that," said the Foreign Secretary.  The last visit from the United...

The costs of US President Barack Obama's upcoming trip to India has been criticised by a Republican leader as "over-the-top" spending but the White House said the figures cited by the lawmaker have "no basis" in reality."When asked whether she would support cuts to Social Security and Medicare, Representative Michele Bachmann, a Republican from Min...

When Barack Obama took over recession battered America, there was hope that the economy reeling under the impact of its worst crisis since the great depression will turn around quickly. Two years later, American voters remain terribly unhappy with the state of their economy. The recession may have given way to recovery, but growth remains largely j...