Washington: US President Barack Obama's Indian-American infotech czar Vivek Kundra is headed to Harvard University this year for a fellowship programme and is expected to leave his post at the White House as Chief Information Officer in August. Kundra, who has been CIO in the Obama administration for the past two and a half years, will serve a joint fellowship later this year at Harvard. He will split his time...
12:39 PM, Jun 17, 2011
Boston: US President Barack Obama's Indian-American infotech czar Vivek Kundra is headed to Harvard University this year for a fellowship programme and is expected to leave his post at the White House as Chief Information Officer in August. Kundra, who has been CIO in the Obama administration for the past two and a half years, will serve a joint fellowship later this year at Harvard. He will split his time...
09:59 AM, Jun 17, 2011
Tripoli, Libya: Renewed diplomatic efforts to halt Libya's civil war appeared to be gaining momentum on Thursday as thunderous NATO airstrikes once again hammered Moammar Gadhafi's stronghold of Tripoli. Officials in the capital say they are open to international efforts that would bring an end to four months of fighting between forces loyal to the longtime leader and rebels who control the eastern third of the country along with pockets...
03:35 AM, Jun 17, 2011
Washington: Pushing back against congressional criticism, the White House said on Wednesday that President Barack Obama has the authority to continue US military action in Libya even without authorization from lawmakers on Capitol Hill. In a detailed, 30-page report being sent to Congress, the administration argues that the US has a limited, supporting role in the NATO-led bombing campaign in Libya. Because US forces are not engaged in sustained fighting...
03:23 AM, Jun 16, 2011
New York: Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman will announce his bid for the White House next Tuesday, bringing a moderate Republican and expert on America's fastest growing competitor into the race to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012. "I intend to announce that I will be a candidate for the presidency a week from today," Huntsman, former US ambassador to China, said at an event. The formal announcement of his...
01:53 AM, Jun 15, 2011
Washington: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been in discussions with the White House about leaving her job next year to become head of the World Bank, sources familiar with the discussions said on Thursday. The former first lady and onetime political rival to President Barack Obama quickly became one of the most influential members of his Cabinet after she began her tenure at State in early 2009. She...
08:13 AM, Jun 10, 2011
Washington: The White House says its top counterterrorism agency chief is resigning after nearly five years at his post. The president called National Counterterrorism Center director Michael Leiter "a trusted adviser to me and to the entire national security team, providing us with an in-depth understanding of terrorist activities." Leiter is leaving on what those close to him call a "high note," now that one of the nation's major counterterror...
02:15 AM, Jun 10, 2011
Washington: Some US lawmakers are urging President Barack Obama to welcome the Dalai Lama at the White House when he visits Washington in July. Representatives from both parties made the appeal on Thursday during a hearing of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. The hearing was marked by criticism of China, which opposes any contact between the Dalai Lama and foreign leaders. Obama didn't receive the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader...
07:21 AM, Jun 03, 2011
New York: Donald Trump will not be adding the White House to his luxury resort holdings. The Donald on Monday took himself off the 2012 Republican presidential candidate list. The wealthy real estate magnate with the complicated hairdo was the ultimate tease. He used his star power as a television celebrity to publicly flirt with a campaign, even though it was never entirely clear whether he really is a Republican....
07:29 AM, May 17, 2011
Washington: The White House on Tuesday said that the killing of Osama bin Laden will not have any impact on President Barack Obama's policy on Afghanistan and the US would start withdrawing its troops from the war-torn country on schedule from July this year. "The administration is, of course, in the process of reviewing the situation on the ground in Afghanistan and the progress that we've made since the surge...
10:34 AM, May 10, 2011
Washington: Rejecting Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's criticism of the unilateral action that killed Osama bin Laden, the US on Monday asserted that it would not apologise to the Pakistan Government for the incident. At the same time, the Obama Administration maintained that it expects the Pakistan Government to continue to cooperate with the US in the 'war against terror'. "We do not apologise for the action," White House...
11:50 PM, May 09, 2011
Washington: US President Barack Obama has no schedule, at this moment, to go to Pakistan this year, his National Security Advisor has said, as the diplomatic fallout from the killing of Osama bin Laden intensified. "There's not a visit on his schedule at this point, right, to go to Pakistan," White House National Security Advisor Tom Donilon told the NBC news channel in an interview. "But there wasn't, at this...
10:09 AM, May 09, 2011
Washington: President Barack Obama said US forces were respectful of the body of Osama bin Laden when they buried his remains at sea, despite criticism from some Muslim clerics that it violated Islamic practice. "We took more care on this than, obviously, bin Laden took when he killed 3,000 people. He didn't have much regard for how they were treated and desecrated," Obama told CBS's "60 Minutes" program, referring to...
08:56 AM, May 06, 2011
New Delhi: Osama bin Laden's death has stirred a new debate in the US - whether photos of his body should be released to the public. US President Barack Obama is pretty clear where he stands on that. In fact the pictures of three other men killed in the same compound are gruesome enough. One of them is believed to be Osama's son. In Washington DC key political figures were ...
09:16 PM, May 05, 2011
Washington: The White House has said the US covert operation to kill al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was conducted in a manner fully consistent with the laws of war. "The (Special Operations) team had the authority to kill Osama bin Laden unless he offered to surrender; in which case the team was required to accept his surrender if the team could do so safely," White House Press Secretary Jay...
08:18 AM, May 05, 2011
Washington: A top US lawmakers on Wednesday opposed the release of the pictures of Osama bin Laden, who was killed by the US in a special operation in Pakistan, as the White House mulled over risks with making the "gruesome photograph" of last moments of the Al Qaeda leader public. "I don't want to make the job of our troops serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan any harder than...
10:04 PM, May 04, 2011
New Delhi: After al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed in a US raid in his compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan, the military sent a message back to the White House: "Geronimo EKIA" - enemy killed in action. However, Native Indians of the United States have taken offence to the US military codenaming Laden 'Geronimo' after an Apache icon who for years fought the Mexican and US armies until his...
02:19 PM, May 04, 2011
Washington: The White House, Pentagon and CIA are congratulating themselves over what appears to have been a stunningly successful mission to hunt down and kill al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. But since Navy SEALs raided bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on Monday, conflicting accounts have emerged about what really went on before, during and after the commando raid. Here are some questions and answers about key issues where...
01:48 PM, May 04, 2011
Kuwait: Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden did not want his children to join the terrorist organisation, the Kuwait-based Al-Anbaa newspaper said citing his last will and testament. In a four-page document dated December 14, 2001, written on a computer and signed "Your Brother Abu Abdullah Osama Muhammad Bin Laden," the late Al Qaeda leader predicted he would be killed as a result of a "betrayal" and ordered his wives...
10:11 AM, May 04, 2011
Washington: Killing Osama bin Laden was a big victory for the US, but how exactly the raid went down is another story - and another, and another. Over two days, the White House has offered contradictory versions of events, including misidentifying which of bin Laden's sons was killed and wrongly saying bin Laden's wife died in gunfire, as it tries to sort through what the president's press secretary called the...
09:32 AM, May 04, 2011
