Category: Obama India Visit
Michelle goes broke buying Xmas gifts
NEW 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, [...]
At 7, Potter lookalike is youngest on Obama team
NEW DELHI: Arya Ika (7) — a student from Southborough in Massachussets — is the youngest delegate in US President Barack Obama’s business team. Ika is accompanying the President on his India trip to strike lucrative deals for his family-owned $500 million-turnover innovative health technology firm. Ika, dressed in natty formals, comes across as just [...]
Michelle Obama Buys New Bangles At New Delhi’s National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum
The First Couple spent Monday in New Delhi, where Michelle Obama stopped by the National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum. For the occasion, the First Lady donned a black shirt with a colorful Dries Van Noten skirt, a metallic belt to match her pumps and an armful of bangles that bought during her visit. She also [...]
Sonia Gandhi, Sushma Swaraj call on Obama
New Delhi: Vice President Hamid Ansari, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi accompanied by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj today called on US President Barack Obama to discuss bilateral and other issues. Ansari was the first to meet Obama soon after the joint press conference of the US President [...]
Obama told me he has heard about my films: Aamir Khan
An invite to the prime minister’s private dinner for the US first couple was an honour enough, but when President Barack Obama praised his work, Aamir Khan was on cloud nine. The star, who was invited to the dinner by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at his 7, Race Course Road residence, was cornered by the [...]
‘Dhanyawad,’ says Obama. And ‘Jai Hind’
New Delhi: As he paused and carefully enunciated “Lok Sabha” and “Rajya Sabha” very early in his address to the Indian Parliament, it was clear that President Barack Obama would attempt to charm with a generous sprinkle of Hindi and other things India. Very soon thereafter, he thanked India for the warm welcome to his [...]
Full text: Obama’s address to Parliament
New Delhi: Visiting American President Barack Obama addressed the Indian Parliament on Monday. He is just the second US President to address the House after former US President Bill Clinton. Here’s the full text of Obama’s address: Mr. Vice President, Madame Speaker, Mr. Prime Minister, Members of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, and most [...]
Welcome India as it prepares to take its UNSC seat: Obama
New Delhi: It was a historic moment, and Barack Obama did not let those watching down. In his address to both Houses of the Indian Parliament, the visiting US President made an unambiguous reference to terror and Pakistan and unequivocally endorsed India’s position for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. Obama served a [...]
