For the first time, an Indian-American woman has been elected as the mayor of the key Californian city of Cupertino, globally known for tech giant Apple’s headquarters. Savita Vaidhyanathan, an MBA who worked as a high school math teacher and an officer in a commercial bank as well as in non-profit management, was sworn in last week in a ceremony […]
» Read moreTime magazine on Wednesday named President-elect Donald Trump its Person of the Year. “It’s a great honour. It means a lot,” Mr. Trump said in a telephone interview on NBC’s “Today” show. Time editor Nancy Gibbs said on the programme that Democrat Hillary Clinton was the No. 2 finalist. Ms. Gibbs said the choice of Trump this year was “straightforward”. […]
» Read moreU.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Friday announced that he will nominate US Marine retired general James Mattis, renowned for his tough talk and battlefield experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, to be his defence secretary. “We are going to appoint ‘Mad Dog’ Gen. Mattis as our Secretary of Defence,” Mr. Trump told a cheering crowd at Cincinnati in Ohio in his […]
» Read moreAmi Bera has been re-elected to the US House of Representatives for a third consecutive term in a close election with his win taking the total number of Indian-Americans elected to the Congress to a record five. Bera, 51, would be joined by three first-time Indian-American lawmakers in the US House of Representatives – Raja Krishnamoorthi from Illinois, Pramila Jayapal […]
» Read moreDonald Trump has met Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the US President-elect’s first meeting with a foreign leader after winning the presidential elections last week. “I am convinced Trump is a leader in whom I can have great confidence,” Mr. Abe said after the meeting on Thursday that lasted for about 90 minutes at the Trump Towers in New York. […]
» Read moreUS Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Thursday that he had submitted his resignation, stepping down as President-elect Donald Trump begins to assemble his new administration. “I submitted my letter of resignation last night,” the retired air force lieutenant general, 75, told the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. “I got 64 days left and I think I will […]
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