Acknowledging India's increasing role on global stage, the US leaders said the two countries have vast opportunities and open lines of communication will help us to make our relationship effective. Co-Chairs of the powerful Congressional Caucus on India and Indian-Americans along with the dozen US lawmakers on Wednesday met in a special briefing to discuss relationship with India. ...
06:13 AM, Feb 28, 2013
New Delhi: Promising a "thorough" probe by FBI into Wisconsin Gurudwara shooting in which six Sikhs were killed, US Ambassador Nancy Powell has said that anyone found involved in the incident will be brought to justice. "Our Federal Bureau of Investigation is leading the investigation; though the news suggests this was the act of one individual, if anyone else is involved, they will be brought to justice and charged under...
07:10 PM, Aug 10, 2012
Kolkata: US Ambassador to India Nancy Powell is slated to meet West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday. The meeting comes ahead of the visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Kolkata in May. According to sources, Powell and Mamata are likely to discuss the latter's concerns with regard to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The sources have also said that the US Ambassador will try to allay...
03:38 PM, Apr 30, 2012
New Delhi: US companies are poised to sign defence deals totalling $8 billion with India, US Ambassador Nancy Powell said on Friday at her first public speech since arriving in New Delhi this month. Powell did not specify which companies she was talking about or when the deals would be signed, but embassy officials said she was referring to negotiations that include about a dozen Apache helicopters along with engines...
06:00 PM, Apr 27, 2012
Washington: The US Senate on Friday confirmed career diplomat Nancy Powell as ambassador to India, a position that had remained vacant for the past year. The Senate confirmed ambassadors to 16 countries following Obama administrations's concern over the posts lying vacant. The confirmation had been lying pending before the senate for about two months now. Obama's first ambassador to India, former congressman Timothy Roemer, had announced his resignation in April...
03:40 AM, Mar 31, 2012
Washington: Differing with some lawmakers' views that India was defying American sanctions by continuing to import Iranian oil, US Ambassador-designate Nancy Powell has said New Delhi shared a desire to see a non-nuclear Iran. At her confirmation hearing at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday, Powell, nevertheless, assured the lawmakers that implementation of the Iranian sanctions would be one of her top priorities when she is in New Delhi...
05:25 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Washington: Nancy J Powell, a career diplomat with wide experience in South Asia, has been named by US President Barack Obama as the next ambassador to India, the first woman to be nominated for the coveted post. 64-year-old Powell would replace Timothy J Roemer, who resigned from his post in April 2011 following a two-year stint as US envoy to India, after going through a confirmation process by the Senate....
09:09 AM, Dec 17, 2011
