White House budget chief nominee Neera Tanden withdraws nomination

In the first major setback to United States President Joe Biden, Indian-American policy expert Neera Tanden has withdrawn her nomination as his top White House budget official after she faced......

White House backs Neera Tanden as Republicans oppose her nomination

The White House and the Indian-American community are solidly backing the nomination of Neera Tanden as the director of Office of Management and Budget, describing her as the most appropriate......

Trump names Mick Mulvaney as interim Chief of Staff

United States President Donald Trump has named his budget director Mick Mulvaney as interim White House chief of staff, putting a halt to a chaotic search to who will take over one of the most......

Conditional aid to Pak counterproductive: White House

The White House has strongly opposed the conditions on United States aid to Pakistan by the powerful House Armed Services Committee in the National Defence Authorisation for the fiscal year 2013.......

US to revoke work permits to spouses of H-1B holders in 3 months

The Trump administration has told a federal court that its decision to revoke work permits to H-4 visa users, a significant majority of whom are Indian-Americans, is expected within the next three......

Obama signs bill to end shutdown

US President Barack Obama early this morning signed a bill into law to end a disruptive 16-day government shutdown and increase the current debt ceiling of $16.7 trillion to prevent the country......

Obama seeks daily briefing on economy

In an effort to keep a close tab on the economic situation of the country, which is in a deep recession, the US President Barack H Obama, has sought a daily briefing on economy. This would be......

US outsourcing seen at $17.6 bn

Information technology outsourcing by the United States government will increase at an annual growth rate of nearly 8 per cent and touch $17.6 billion by fiscal 2010, according to a market research......