Donald Trump
Course corrections in United States policies for President-Elect Joe Biden
November 8, 2020
the President-Elect of United States Joe Biden said he would immediately reverse the ban on travel from 13-odd Muslim majority nations
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This contribution of Trump is not much talked about
November 2, 2020
When 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore, former vice President of USA, there was a global appreciation of the work done by the winners in bringing climate change issue at the centre of the current and future ...
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On its 75th anniversary, UN missing from COVID19 action
September 29, 2020
Two years ago United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres flew into New Delhi to bestow the ‘Champions of the Earth’ award to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had won it alongside French President Emmanuel Macron. In 2015, India and France had launched the Internationa...
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Seven Indian-Americans in Forbes’ list of wealthiest people in US
September 14, 2020
Sixty-one-year-old Jay Chaudhry, CEO of cybersecurity firm ZScaler, has been named the richest Indian American in the rankings for 2020 released by Forbes magazine, which goes on to list six other Persons of Indian Origin amongst the 400 richest persons in the United States. Inte...
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Suffrage centennial but wait for a female US President goes on
August 26, 2020
August 26, 2020 marks a century of voting rights for women in the United States. Yet, unlike many other developed or even developing countries, the US is yet to elect a woman as its President or even vice president. While the likelihood of getting a female vice president is still...
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Kamala Harris: Democrats Trump card
August 12, 2020
Almost seven months after her efforts to win Democratic Party’s nomination for presidential election failed, Kamala Harris, a Person of Indian Origin (PIO), gets back into electoral fray as potential vice president on Democratic ticket. After weeks of deliberations, Democratsâ€...
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Indian diaspora to play key role in US elections 2020
August 2, 2020
Indian diaspora in US accounts for over 1.5 million registered voters. Little wonder then that both the Republicans and Democrats are wooing Indian Americans for November’s Presidential elections. In September last year, when over 50,000 Indians gathered for the hyped up Howdy ...
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Trump’s trade terror tactics
March 13, 2020
Hundreds of millions of the world’s poor could be badly hit by Donald Trump’s distorted vision of the global economy and trade. Last month, United States President Donald Trump abruptly ‘reclassified’ over half a dozen nations in terms of their economic status. Overnight,...
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Kem chho, planet earth?
February 24, 2020
In the high profile media coverage of the visit of the United States President Donald Trump, that starts today, a number of issues have dominated the headlines. But perhaps the most significant one has escaped the media glare. However, Narendra Modi must ask Trump about climate c...
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India on the backfoot at WEF 2020 in Davos
January 29, 2020
At the recently concluded Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, the usual star of the show, India, was on the defensive, unlike the previous years and notably in 2018 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave the plenary speech, becoming the first Indian leader to del...
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Modi, Xi Jinping to meet for informal summit
October 10, 2019
The second informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping is an opportunity to strengthen the bilateral relationship.
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Haro sur le vapotage !
September 19, 2019
On assiste à une vague d’interdictions touchant la cigarette électronique à travers le monde et l’Inde ne fait pas exception. Le gouvernement Modi a annoncé, le 18 septembre, sa décision d’interdire, par ordonnance, l’importation, l’exportation, la production, la f...
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