
London: The restrictions imposed on student visas by the David Cameron government may prevent the next generation of world leaders such as Manmohan Singh, Benazir Bhutto or Bill Clinton from coming to Britain to study, the head of a leading think-tank on Monday said. Criticising the Cameron government for restrictions on student visas, the influential Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) said in a report that students from India and...

01:34 AM, May 15, 2012

A new Obama campaign advertisement shows former president Bill Clinton praising him for approving the risky May 2 raid and asking which path would Mitt Romney have taken. ...

11:08 AM, May 02, 2012

Lawrence Summers has served as US treasury secretary under Bill Clinton, a post currently held by his protegee Timothy Geithner. Presently, he teaches economics at Harvard University, where he was formerly the president. He comes from a family of economists. His parents are economists and he is a nephew of Paul Samuelson and Kenneth Arrow, both Nobel Laureates in economics. How is India positioned as a global consumption engine? India...

03:39 PM, Jan 13, 2012

Lawrence Summers has served as US treasury secretary under Bill Clinton, a post currently held by his protegee Timothy Geithner. Presently, he teaches economics at Harvard University, where he was formerly the president. He comes from a family of economists. His parents are economists and he is a nephew of Paul Samuelson and Kenneth Arrow, both Nobel Laureates in economics. How is India positioned as a global consumption engine? India...

11:00 AM, Jan 13, 2012

Nagpur: Former president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam on Tuesday revealed that former prime minister PV Narasimha Rao had asked him to make preparations for nuclear tests, which were subsequently conducted (at Pokhran) during the NDA government, headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Kalam was addressing the probationers at the National Academy of Direct Taxes (NADT) here. The former President said that in May 1996, he had received a call from Narasimha...

07:19 PM, Dec 06, 2011

New York: Former President Bill Clinton says in a new book that last summer's political fight over raising the US debt ceiling made the nation look "weak and confused" overseas and he doesn't know why President Barack Obama didn't seek a hike in the limit when Democrats still controlled both houses of Congress. He says the final deal did little to create jobs or solve the longer-term debt crisis. In...

01:11 PM, Nov 04, 2011

Washington: Dorothy Rodham, mother of Secretary of State Hillary Dorothy Clinton and former US President Bill Clinton's mother-in-law, died on Tuesday at an age of 92. The secretary of state had cancelled a planned trip to London and Istanbul to be at her mother's side. In a statement, the Hillary family hailed Dorothy as a woman who "overcame abandonment and hardship as a young girl to become the remarkable woman...

03:45 AM, Nov 02, 2011

London: Pop star Lady Gaga says she enjoyed her first real Marilyn Monroe moment as she serenaded former US president Bill Clinton during his birthday concert. The 25-year-old took to the stage at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl at a gig to mark Clinton's belated 65th birthday and the 10th anniversary of his Clinton Foundation, reported Daily Mail. Gaga wore her hair in blonde curls and sported red lipstick in honour...

02:46 PM, Oct 18, 2011

New York: Bill Clinton is happy to have celebrities call attention to his Clinton Foundation, but he's not above spoofing them, either. In a new Web video for the 10th anniversary of the Clinton Foundation, a coterie of stars performs as the foundation's airheaded "Celebrity Division." Ben Stiller leads an unproductive fundraising brainstorming session with Matt Damon, Sean Penn, Kristen Wiig (wihg), Jack Black, Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen. The...

10:40 AM, Oct 18, 2011

New Delhi: In a new twist to the spy saga of Ghulam Nabi Fai, CNN-IBN has accessed a letter that showed how the Indian Government had long ago flagged the US on Fai's activities. In a letter to the US State Department, former Indian ambassador to Washington Siddhartha Shankar Ray expressed his deep concern over then President Bill Clinton's letter praising Ghulam Nabi Fai. The heat over Ghulam Nabi Fai's...

03:01 PM, Jul 23, 2011

New York: Huma Abedin helped then-first lady Hillary Clinton weather the storm surrounding President Bill Clinton's affair with a White House intern. Abedin is in the centre of a storm herself, with the disclosure of her congressman-husband's online sex antics. Abedin still works for Hillary Clinton and is travelling overseas with the US secretary of state as the scandal involving her husband, Anthony Weiner, continues to dominate US news. While...

11:31 PM, Jun 09, 2011

London: US President Barack Obama may face his first big scandal pretty soon, according to a leading political scientist. Based on his mathematical formula, Brendan Nyhan of Michigan University has predicted in his report to 'Center for Politics' website that President Obama's administration is set to be rocked by a major controversy soon. The political scientist defines scandal as the "elite perception of misbehaviour whose occurrence is also influenced by...

12:03 PM, May 29, 2011

Washington: If US Congress does not raise the limit on US government debt before the specter of default becomes reality this summer, President Barack Obama will need to decide which bills to pay - and choose between market mayhem and a firestorm over missed benefit payments. The Obama administration and lawmakers are locked in talks over how to curb mounting US debts, with Republicans pushing for deep spending cuts as...

08:21 AM, May 17, 2011