From Lalit K Jha Washington:US President Barack Obama has signed into law the USD 618 billion defence budget for 2017, which enhances security cooperation with India and conditions nearly half of the funding to Pakistan on a certification that it is taking demonstrable steps against the Haqqani Network. Currently vacationing in Hawaii, Obama yesterday signed the National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA) 2017, which asks Defence Secretary and Secretary of State to take steps necessary to re...Read More

From Lalit K Jha Jacksonville (Florida):Ruing that Americans are listening and quietly watching rhetoric and crazy ideas of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, President Barack Obama has said that voters have become numb and such a new normal is unacceptable. "You hear what Trump says, and the problem is that it's been happening so frequently that we have become numb to it. We almost act like it's normal. We almost treat this like some reality TV show," Obama told his supporte...Read More

Washington: US President Barack Obama has slammed Donald Trump, saying that the Republican presidential candidate does not have the temperament, knowledge or "basic honesty" to be his successor at the White House. "He (Trump) doesn't have the temperament, or the judgment, or the knowledge, -- or, apparently, the desire to obtain the knowledge -- or the basic honesty that a President needs to have," Obama said at an election rally in North Carolina yesterday. In the remaining four weeks, Ob...Read More

Washington: US President Barack Obama has nominated a 47-year-old Indian-American woman attorney to the US District Court bench in New York, the White House has said. "I am pleased to nominate Diane Gujarati to serve on the United States District Court bench. I am confident she will serve the American people with distinction," Obama said in a statement yesterday. Gujarati, the Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division of the US attorney's office for the southern district of New York since 2012...Read More

Vientiane: The US "strongly supports" India's NSG membership bid, President Barack Obama on Thursday told Prime Minister Narendra Modi here as they discussed the immediate priorities in the strategic partnership, including deepening the civil nuclear cooperation and combating climate change. "Had a great discussion with President of the US (POTUS) on India-USA relations," Modi tweeted after his meeting with Obama on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit here, their eighth in the last two year...Read More

Washington:The White House cancelled the meeting of the US President Barack Obama with his Philippine counterpart Rodrigo Duterte after the latter used obscene language against him. "President Obama will not be holding a bilateral meeting with President Duterte of the Philippines this afternoon," said Ned Price spokesman of the National Security Council, White House. "Instead, he will meet with President Park of the Republic of Korea this afternoon, September 6," Price said in a brief stat...Read More

From K J M Varma Hangzhou:Prime Minister Narendra Modi today exchanged views with Barack Obama on the sidelines of the G20 summit here with the US president praising the "bold policy" move on GST reform in a "difficult" global economic scenario. Modi first met Obama briefly when they were onstage to pose for a family photograph at the G20 Summit venue in this eastern Chinese city. The two leaders had another opportunity to exchange views during an informal evening programme. Obama in his ...Read More

From K J M Varma Hangzhou:Prime Minister Narendra Modi today exchanged pleasantries with US President Barack Obama and other world leaders attending the G20 summit here. Modi met Obama briefly when they were on a stage to pose for a family photograph at the venue in this eastern Chinese city. Earlier in the day, Modi met Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull on the sidelines of the Summit. Modi, who arrived here yesterday from Vietnam, is sche...Read More