Tag: Us President

New Delhi/Washington: Former US President Barack Obama’s administration knowingly funded a sanctioned affiliate of the pan-Islamist banned terror outfit al-Qaeda, as per a recently released report of a US Senate committee. The report is based on a probe by the office of the Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) into the Obama administration’s approval […]

Washington: For the first time since the November 2020 election, US President Donald Trump on Thursday conceded against President-elect Joe Biden, saying that there would be an “orderly transition of power” on January 20, shortly after Congress affirmed the Democrat’s Electoral College victory. “Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and […]

New York: Day One of Joe Biden’s presidency will kick off with a rash of executive orders. Covid-19 will overshadow everything else for the first 100 days but subsumed within will be efforts to push forward quick fixes on immigration, healthcare and a battered economy. First up, on January 20, Biden will sign “roughly a […]

Bhubaneswar: Well-known miniature artist from Odisha L Eswar Rao has crafted a miniature photo frame of Joe Biden using small pieces of stones inside a glass bottle to congratulate him ahead of his swearing-in as the President of the United States. Speaking to OTV, Rao, a resident of Jatni village– around 20 kilometres from the […]

New York: US President Joe Biden’s underpromise-overdeliver strategy on Covid-19 vaccine allocation landed its most optimistic message yet, pointing to vaccination for any American who wants a shot by “this Spring”. Responding to a reporter’s question on when ordinary Americans can hope to get the vaccine on demand, Biden said, “I think it’ll be this […]

Washington: US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have been named Time magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’, for offering “restoration and renewal in a single ticket”. The magazine made the announcement on its Twitter page late Thursday night. Biden and Harris ran in one of the most contentious presidential races in American history, […]

New York: “In this battle for the soul of America, democracy prevailed,” declared Joseph Robinette Biden after his election as the 46th president of the United States and Kamala Harris made history as the first woman and the first Indian American elected as vice president. The electoral college formally voted them to the offices on […]