On International Women’s Day, Barack Obama shared a touching letter that was written to him and Michelle by an Indian-American woman named Sindhu. In her letter, Sindhu thanks the Obamas for bringing the biggest changes in the world with their leadership and expresses her gratitude by promising them that she’s in on the process of change that the dynamic duo kickstarted. Read the inspiring letter here. To: Michelle and Barack […]

The vice president winced in shock as Obama announced he was conferring the nation’s highest civil honor on his right-hand-man for eight years. At the dusk of both of their political careers, surrounded by teary friends and family, President Barack Obama on Thursday bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Joe Biden, the man he called “the finest vice president we have ever seen.” The vice president winced in shock […]

Iran and six major world powers reached a landmark nuclear deal on Tuesday, capping more than a decade of negotiations with an agreement that could transform the Middle East. US President Barack Obama praised the deal as one built on verification, not trust, and said it would help stop the spread of nuclear weapons in the Middle East. “Every pathway to a nuclear weapon is cut off,” Obama said in […]

Washington: Ahead of President Barack Obama’s India visit, the US has asked Pakistan to ensure that there is no cross-border terror incident during the trip and subtly warned of “consequences” if any such attack is traced back to the country. Obama will travel to New Delhi later this week to attend the Republic Day parade on January 26, the first US president to do so. The US and Indian security […]

  New Delhi: What is common between Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr Rajendra Prasad, Indira Gandhi, Pranab Mukherjee and Barack Obama, apart from the fact that they are/were significant political personalities? The answer is 95-year-old Narayan Pandey. Pandey who? You might ask. Well, he is the owner of the famous Paandey’s Paan shop at President’s Estate in South Block, Delhi. He holds the unique distinction of treating all former presidents, prime […]

 President Barack Obama Friday named Ashton Carter, a former Pentagon second-in command, who once described India as destined to be America’s security partner, as his new defense secretary in place of ousted Chuck Hagel. Announcing the nomination of the Rhodes Scholar, with a doctorate in theoretical physics from Oxford University and a degree in medieval history from Yale, in the Roosevelt room of the White House, Obama described him as […]

Here’s President Obama explaining how much of himself he sees in so many young and struggling minorities without parents. Obama announces that, like them, he used to make excuses, blame others and get high when he was angry. The president has been referring to his adolescent marijuana habit as a mistake, yet we all know that if Obama had stayed away from weed as a kid, he probably wouldn’t have […]