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Indian-Americans celebrate Obama inauguration
World | Jan 21, 2013, 09:07 AM ISTWashington, Jan 21: President Barack Obama was not there, but his maternal half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng came to cheer with Indian-Americans as they had a ball to celebrate the second-term inauguration of the man they voted
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Obama should visit India again: US think tank
World | Jan 18, 2013, 01:47 PM ISTWashington, Jan 18: As President Barack Obama works on his "big part of my plans" for India in his second term, an influential US think tank has made four concrete proposals to advance their shared
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Obama to sworn in for second term on Jan 21
World | Jan 14, 2013, 03:27 PM ISTWashington, Jan 14 : With his wife and two daughters at his side, President Barack Obama will raise his right hand and place his left on two stacked Bibles as he takes the oath of
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Guns fall silent on LoC as Obama showers praise on Pakistan
World | Jan 12, 2013, 11:18 PM ISTNew Delhi/Washington, Jan 12: After several hours of firing between Indian and Pakistani troops in the Mendhar sector near Poonch on Friday, the guns fell silent through the night, even as US President Barack Obama
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Obama nominates Jack Lew as new US Treasury Secretary
World | Jan 11, 2013, 11:01 AM ISTWashington, Jan 11: President Barack Obama, in an effort to rejuvenate the battered US economy, yesterday nominated his Chief-of-Staff and budget specialist Jack Lew as the next Treasury Secretary."I cannot think of a better person
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Obama uses autopen to sign fiscal cliff Bill
Jan 03, 2013, 01:26 PM ISTWashington, Jan 3: US President Barack Obama has signed into law the fiscal cliff Bill that extends lower tax rates permanently on annual household income under $4,50,000 and postpones automatic spending cuts for two months.“We
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Obama 'optimistic' on fiscal cliff deal
World | Dec 29, 2012, 10:36 PM ISTWashington,Dec 29: US President Barack Obama, pushing for a deal to avoid the looming tax hikes and spending cuts known as the “fiscal cliff,” entered last-minute talks with Senate leaders, saying he still believed an
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Obama's choice to replace Clinton is a friend of India
World | Dec 22, 2012, 05:14 PM ISTWashington, Dec 22: Senator John Kerry, President Barack Obama's choice to replace Hillary Clinton as the next secretary of state, a former Democratic presidential candidate, is considered a true friend of India.If for Clinton Washington's
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US recognises Syria opposition coalition: Obama
World | Dec 12, 2012, 11:30 AM ISTWashington, Dec 12: US President Barack Obama has said his country has formally recognised Syria's opposition rebel coalition as the "legitimate representative" of the Syrians, BBC reported.Obama said the emerging coalition had earned the right
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Obama lauds rescue of Indian American doctor
World | Dec 10, 2012, 11:57 PM ISTWashington, Dec 10: President Barack Obama and Defence Secretary Leon Panetta have praised the elite US special operations team for a weekend rescue mission in Afghanistan to free an Indian American doctor abducted by the
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Asia Tour: Obama first pays visit to Thailand
World | Nov 28, 2012, 04:23 PM ISTBangkok, Nov 18: President Barack Obama on Sunday launched a three-day Southeast Asia tour, hailing alliances with countries such as Thailand as cornerstones of the administration's deeper commitment to the Asia-Pacific region.While in Asia, however,
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Obama, Wen hail US-China relationship
World | Nov 20, 2012, 04:39 PM ISTPhnom Penh, Cambodia, Nov 20: President Barack Obama says the US-China relationship is "cooperative and constructive'' and that it's important that the two nations set "clear rules of the road'' for trade and investment.Obama conveyed
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Wen meets Obama
World | Nov 20, 2012, 12:10 PM ISTPhnom Penh, Nov 20: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Tuesday met US President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the seventh East Asia Summit in Cambodia.Leaders of the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian
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America is with you, Obama tells Myanmar students
World | Nov 19, 2012, 05:13 PM ISTYangon, Nov 19: In a historic breakthrough, President Barack Obama today stepped onto the soil of long-shunned Myanmar and into the flag-waving embrace of its once repressed people.“You gave us hope,” he declared, the first
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Myanmar or Burma? Obama calls it both on visit
World | Nov 19, 2012, 04:15 PM ISTYangnon, Myanmar,Nov 19: Officially at least, America still calls this southeast Asian nation Burma, the favored appellation of dissidents and pro-democracy activists who opposed the former military junta's move to summarily change its name 23
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Obama to visit Myanmar Monday
World | Nov 18, 2012, 04:00 PM ISTYangon, Nov 18: US President Barack Obama will Monday undertake a historic visit to Myanmar, one among the 10 members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN).His trip to Myanmar will be the
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No evidence of security breach in Petraeus scandal says Obama
World | Nov 15, 2012, 08:12 PM ISTWashington, Nov 15: US President Barack Obamasaid on Wednesday that he has “no evidence” of security breach in connection with the resignation of CIA chief David Petraeus over an extramarital affair.“I have no evidence at
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Inside the White House - Part Four
World | Nov 10, 2012, 06:20 AM ISTMap RoomThe Map Room is so-named because it was used by President Franklin Roosevelt as a situation room from which to follow the course of World War II. It now serves as a private meeting
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Sikhs urge Obama to work to ensure religious freedom
World | Nov 08, 2012, 11:32 PM ISTWashington, Nov 8: A Sikh advocacy group in the US has asked re-elected President Barack Obama to use his second term in office to focus more on issues related to preserving religious freedom.The Washington-based advocacy
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Inside the White House - Part 3
World | Nov 09, 2012, 06:39 AM ISTOval Office: The Office of the President The Oval Office is the president's formal workspace, where he confers with heads of state, diplomats, his staff, and other dignitaries; where he often addresses the American public