The Indonesian media and blogosphere lit up Thursday with condemnation of a conservative Muslim minister who expressed embarrassment about shaking hands with US First Lady Michelle Obama. Critics accused the minister of lying about the “hand-shaking incident” and bringing shame to the mainly Muslim country, which President Barack Obama held up as a model of [...]
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US President Barack Obama Wednesday called on the Muslim world to work together with the US to defeat Al Qaeda as he concluded his visit to Indonesia, his childhood home. Obama reiterated statements he made in Cairo last year that the US was not at war with Islam, and urged all sides to look beyond [...]
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Jakarta: It is the presidential homecoming that wasn’t meant to be. The last time President Obama was in this nation of islands, in 1992, he holed up in a rented beachside hut in Bali, where he swam each morning and spent afternoons writing “Dreams From My Father,” the memoir that later became a best-seller. In [...]
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New Delhi: One of the biggest news points of his India visit was (UNSC) s endorsement of India’s bid for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council (UNSC). The comment has rhetorical value, stress US government sources, but it is inviting criticism from other countries. Hours after Obama left India for Indonesia, the US [...]
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The Guntur MP Rayapati Sambasiva Rao has gifted a diamond studded chain to US president Barack Obama in Parliament. The presentation took place as the MP was impressed to the speech of world’s most powerful president. “ I am impressed to his speech on Indian culture and immediately I got the feeling of gifting him [...]
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At her 30-minute meeting with President Barack Obama here on Monday, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj underlined that her party always considered India and the United States “natural allies” but she also underscored that New Delhi expected Washington to be clear in identifying Pakistan as the perpetrator of the Mumbai [...]
Add to orkutWASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama’s announcement of support for India’s permanent membership in the UN Security Council (UNSC) is seen by large sections of the US media as an attempt to counter China. The influential New York Times said that by endorsing India for a permanent seat Obama had “signalled the United States’ intention to [...]
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The Indian IT industry can now breathe easy. The US may not go for tougher measures against outsourcing after the US President, Mr Barack Obama’s visit to India, where he sought greater economic cooperation with India to boost job creation in the US. Mr Obama who had been critical of Indian IT companies, turned soft [...]
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New Delhi: US President Barack Obama on Tuesday left New Delhi for Indonesia after his three-day visit to India, during which he announced support for New Delhi’s bid for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council and asked Pakistan to bring perpetrators of 26/11 attacks to justice. Obama and his wife Michelle were given [...]
Add to orkutNEW DELHI: Michelle Obama just couldn’t stop buying Indian fabrics and curios at the capitals sun-dappled crafts museum. At the museum on a scheduled stop of one hour, she lingered on for almost two hours, stopping only when she ran out of money after splurging an estimated Rs 80,000 on bedspreads, paintings and other items, [...]
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