| Spend less, save more: Obama to Americans | 22-NOV-09 |
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| As the US tries to emerge from a deep economic recession, President Barack Obama today told Americans to save more and spend less so as to bring the federal deficit under control. |
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| Nuclear cooperation high on prime minister agenda in US | 21-NOV-09 |
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| As he prepares to meet President Barack Obama in Washington, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hopes the US will be “more liberal” in transferring technologies to India and clear the way for implementing the landmark agreement on nuclear cooperation. |
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| Devangshu Datta: When Obama bows right | 21-NOV-09 |
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| North Indians travelling south of the Vindhyas experience disconnect in terms of body-language versus verbalisation. “Yes” in those parts is emphasised with a side-to-side shake of the head. That gesture means “no” in most other places. Foreigners visiting India are often equally foxed by namaskars. Putting palms together is common to many forms of prayer and not employed much as a peer-to-peer greeting outside India. |
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| US Senate unveils $849 bn health care reform bill | 19-NOV-09 |
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| A sweeping health care reform bill backed by President Barack Obama that promises to expand insurance coverage to 31 million more Americans at a whopping cost of $849 billion over a decade was unveiled today and is now set for a key test vote in the US Senate. |
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| India rules out third party role in Indo-Pak ties | 19-NOV-09 |
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| Upset over the reference to the Indo-Pak ties in US-China statement, India today made it clear that it will not brook any third party role in bilateral matters even as the US sought to give a positive spin to it. |
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| G-20 at centre of US' cooperative effort: Geithner | 18-NOV-09 |
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| Noting that G-20 is the premier forum for international economic co-operation, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has told lawmakers that the Obama Administration is placing the forum at the centre of its global economic cooperative effort. |
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| Obama favours resumption of China-Dalai talks | 18-NOV-09 |
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| In a delicate balancing act, US President Barack Obama today supported early resumption of talks between China and the Dalai Lama's representatives while describing Tibet as part of this country. |
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| Obama asks Hu to keep promises on yuan | 18-NOV-09 |
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| President Barack Obama called on Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao to make good on a commitment to allow the yuan to appreciate to help prevent trade imbalances that exacerbated the global economic crisis. |
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| K Subrahmanyam: Partnering with the US: Yes we can! | 18-NOV-09 |
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| A large number of commentators on Indo-US relations seem to think that when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets President Barack Obama next week in Washington DC, the latter will not be able to match his predecessor George Bush’s enthusiasm for India. This baseless pessimism is based on the view that the US is compelled to be on cordial terms with China because of economic compulsions. |
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| Obama describes Tibet as a part of China | 17-NOV-09 |
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| Describing Tibet as a part of China, US President Barack Obama today supported the early resumption of talks between Beijing and representatives of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama. |
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| Cold War and cold warriors | 16-NOV-09 |
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| While Germany celebrated the 20th anniversary of the end of the Cold War in Europe, symbolised by the fall of the Berlin Wall, some remnants of that inglorious era remain. North and South Korea, the Palestinian problem and, in a manner of speaking, the Af-Pak logjam. All essentially legacies of the Cold War. So, while Europe may pop champagne bottles, Asia will have to wait before it can celebrate the end of the Cold War legacy. But there is a bigger legacy issue waiting to be addressed. That is the intellectual legacy of the Cold War. The idea that one or two or even five Big Powers can run the world. In some ways, the creation of the G-20 has undermined this Cold War legacy, but the G-20 is as yet a talk shop. Unless institutions of power are able to re-adjust themselves to new global power equations of the post-Cold War era, we cannot really say we have put the past behind us. |
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| Obama says US doesn't seek to 'contain' China | 14-NOV-09 |
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| Pledging greater engagement with Asia, President Barack Obama today said the US did not seek to "contain" a rising China even as he asserted that it would not be "cowed" by North Korea's defiance over its nuclear issue. |
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| Not yet the G2, but maybe the G1? | 14-NOV-09 |
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| China/US: President Barack Obama will have a friendly meeting with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao next week. They two countries depend on each other too much for anything else. In a few years Hu or his successor may be able to tell the American leader what to do. But not yet. |
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