President-elect Donald Trump, whose election to the post was one of the biggest surprises of the year, was on Wednesday declared the TIME 2016 Person of the Year. Time magazine every year chooses one person “who had the greatest influence, for better or worse, on the events of the year.” “It’s a great honor. It means a lot,” Trump said in a telephone interview on NBC’s “Today” show. The magazine’s […]
President-elect Donald Trump warned on Thursday that American companies would face “consequences” for outsourcing jobs abroad, as he touted his early success in persuading an air conditioner maker to keep about 1,000 jobs in the United States rather than move them to Mexico. “Companies are not going to leave the United States anymore without consequences. Not going to happen,” the Republican said on a visit to a Carrier Corp plant […]
Anticipating a more protectionist US technology visa programme under a Donald Trump administration, India’s $150 billion IT services sector will speed up acquisitions in the United States and recruit more heavily from college campuses there. Companies including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys and Wipro have long used H1-B skilled worker visas to fly computer engineers to the US, their largest overseas market, temporarily to service clients. Staff from those three […]
Republican Donald Trump stunned the world on Tuesday by defeating heavily favored Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House. Here is your 10-point guide to the result of the US election: Mr Trump, 70, pledged in his victory speech to be a President “for all Americans.” He also said “We owe her (Hillary) a major debt of gratitude for her service.” A wealthy real-estate developer and former reality […]
Five years ago, a 50-something woman living in a tumbledown 87-year-old building in Mumbai became the talk of the town for “standing up” to Donald Trump. Reports described Smita Panvalkar, a homemaker, who lived with her husband, son and brother in the first floor of the building as a “gritty woman who stands between Donald Trump, easily the world’s most glamorous real estate developer, and his first project in India”. […]
The race for the White House narrowed noticeably on Sunday as Hillary Clinton sought to shake off a renewed FBI probe of her emails and Donald Trump blitzed western states nine days ahead of the vote. An ABC News/Washington Post poll put the Democratic presidential candidate just one point ahead of her Republican challenger Donald Trump at 46-45 percent in a four-way race. In Florida, which is a must-win for […]
Fifty prominent Republican national security officials, including a former CIA director, on Monday called party nominee Donald Trump unqualified to lead the country and said he would be “the most reckless president in American history.” The statement was the latest repudiation of Trump’s candidacy by veteran Republican national security specialists, and was remarkable for the harshness of its language. “Mr. Trump lacks the character, values, and experience to be president. […]
“I refuse to allow the Donald Trumps of this world to change what this country is supposed to stand for.” Muslim American comedian Dean Obeidallah has spent 15 years fighting hatred and bias against Islam, armed only with his sense of humor. Now, the bitter tones of the US presidential campaign have added urgency to his mission. Obeidallah’s life, like the lives of many Muslims, changed forever one September morning […]
Chandler, Arizona seems a long, long way from Kovur in Andhra Pradesh’s West Godavari district. Two years ago, it was in Kovur where Avinash Iragavarapu, an MBA graduate from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, joined the YSR Congress’s election campaign in Andhra Pradesh after quitting his job with HCL Technologies Ltd in New Delhi. Political campaigning and strategy, in many ways, were his natural calling. In his college years, Iragavarapu […]
With Donald Trump emerging as the Republican party’s most likely nominee for the U.S. presidency, we take a look at some of the controversies that his remarks generated during his campaign trail. Being in the running for the top job in the country doesn’t seem to have held him back from speaking his mind; the 69-year-old billionaire has been an equal-opportunity offender on the campaign trail, making inflammatory comments about […]
