All stories by Lalit K Jha
Trump picks Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ginsberg in US Supreme Court
Rediff.com27 Sep 2020Biden has urged the Senate not to act on the vacancy until the American people select their next president and the next Congress.
US to invest $150 million to train H-1B One Workforce
Rediff.com25 Sep 2020In sectors like IT, cybersecurity, advanced manufacturing, and transportation, the H-1B One Workforce grant programme would be used to upskill the present workforce and train a new generation of workers.
Would love to help: Trump on India-China border row
Rediff.com25 Sep 2020The US president's remarks in this regard come days after senior Indian and Chinese military commanders held talks aimed at resolving the months-long standoff along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh. The two countries agreed to stop sending more troops to their disputed border in the Himalayas.
Trump refuses to promise peaceful transfer of power
Rediff.com24 Sep 2020Trump exuded confidence that there will be continuation of power.
Modi factor driving Indian Americans towards Trump: Survey
Rediff.com24 Sep 2020In many must-win battleground states, Indian Americans comprise a substantial and potentially decisive share of the electorate: 190,000 potential voters in Florida, 120,000 in Michigan, 170,000 in Pennsylvania, 150,000 in Georgia, 110,000 in North Carolina, 165,000 in Virginia, and nearly 470,000 in Texas.
Kamala Harris grossly incompetent: Trump
Rediff.com23 Sep 2020Trump, a Republican, said during the Democratic primaries no one treated Biden as badly as Harris.
Trump to announce SC pick by this week
Rediff.com22 Sep 2020This would be Trump's third Supreme Court nominee in his first term. Unlike India where Supreme Court judges have a retirement age, judges to the US Supreme Court are appointed for life. The president has already said that he will nominate a woman for the position.
US imposes sweeping new sanctions on Iran
Rediff.com22 Sep 2020'Today, I am taking new actions to restrict Iran's nuclear, ballistic missile, and conventional weapons pursuits. My Administration will never allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon, nor will we allow Iran to endanger the rest of the world with a fresh supply of ballistic missiles and conventional arms,' Trump said in a statement.
Trump vows to nominate woman judge for US SC
Rediff.com20 Sep 2020Ginsburg, a history-making jurist, feminist icon and a champion of women's rights and social justice, died of cancer on Friday. She was 87.
Provided 'strong support' to India during LAC standoff: US
Rediff.com17 Sep 2020'The crisis has strengthened America's resolve to work towards building its relationship with India as a bulwark against Chinese aggression'
India targeted by 5 Chinese hackers charged in US
Rediff.com17 Sep 2020Deputy US Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen on Wednesday announced that three indictments have been unsealed in the matter that collectively charge five Chinese nationals with computer hacking and charge two Malaysian nationals with helping some of those hackers target victims and sell the fruits of their crime.
Trump lists India among illicit drug-producing countries
Rediff.com17 Sep 2020Trump said countries such as Afghanistan, India, The Bahamas, Belize, Burma, Colombia, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic among others are a major drug transit or illicit drug producing nations.
Israel, UAE and Bahrain sign Abraham Accord
Rediff.com16 Sep 2020The Arab Accord -- essentially bilateral agreements with Israel -- does not mention the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Kamala Harris's first thought on Biden's VP call: 'My mother'
Rediff.com15 Sep 2020Harris recounted how she and her team got a call that Biden wanted to talk and then got another call where she was told Biden wanted to do a zoom call. She described how she went in "our little makeshift office" and then when the call started Biden immediately asked her to join the ticket. After referring to her mother, Harris also described how husband Doug Emhoff's ear was on the door outside the room listening in on the call. Eventually Jill Biden and Emhoff joined the call with Biden and Harris.
Trump claims Modi praised him for 'great job' in COVID-19 testing
Rediff.com14 Sep 2020"By far, we've tested more people than India, than many, many big countries put together. India is second (in coronavirus testing after the US). We're 44 million tests ahead of India. They have 1.5 billion people. And Prime Minister Modi calls me and says, what a job you've done with testing," Trump said at an election rally in Reno, Nevada.
Trump downplayed COVID risk to reduce panic: Book
Rediff.com10 Sep 2020As per the book, Trump insists to Woodward he would triumph over the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic calamity. "Don't worry about it, Bob. OK?" Trump told the author in July. "Don't worry about it. We'll get to do another book. You'll find I was right."
India-China border row 'nasty', would love to help: Trump
Rediff.com5 Sep 2020"While we're at it, we're talking about China and India are going at it pretty good on the border, as you know. It's been very nasty," Trump told reporters on Friday evening at a White House news conference.
Trump says Indian-Americans would be voting for him
Rediff.com5 Sep 2020"We have great support from India. We have great support from Prime Minister Modi. I would think that the Indian (American) people would be voting for Trump," the President told reporters at a White House news conference.
US poll: '2 million Hindus key voting bloc in swing states'
Rediff.com4 Sep 2020"Voting is our Dharma, and it's at the heart of our society," said Amit Jani, Biden Campaign National AAPI director.
Biden campaign launches initiative to woo Hindus in US
Rediff.com2 Sep 2020The development is being seen as a sign of the growing political prominence of Hindus in America. Hinduism is the fourth largest faith in the US, representing approximately one per cent of the US population in 2016.