In and out in 26 hours: President Obama in Berlin
For his first official visit to Berlin as US president, Barack Obama has set aside 25 hours and 40 minutes - more time than any of his recent predecessors. But…
Why India’s realty scam should interest President Obama
On the face of it, the Adarsh housing society scam in Mumbai does not look very different from dozens of similar scandals spawned by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s dream to…
Curtain opens on Obama vs Romney presidential election
The curtain rose on the US presidential election that will see President Barack Obama square off against Republican rival Mitt Romney as one of the would-be stars took a bow…
India’s first tribal president
INDIA is such a complex country with its mosaic of ethnicities, belief systems, castes, sub-castes, regions, languages that are perpetually jostling to catch the eye, and so much else in…
US presidential election
Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it” (wit and opinion of Douglas Jerrold). From 2016 till last week, Donald Trump sprinted with great…
As president-elect, Biden makes diplomacy dull again
After Donald Trump in his first week as president spoke to Australia’s prime minister, leaks of the call left many dumbfounded, with the new US leader haranguing and hanging up…
Preparing for President Biden
“Pakistan is fifty times more important to the United States, than Afghanistan”, Joe Biden to former Afghan president Hamid Karzai, January 2009. How can Pakistan best prepare for a Biden…
Obama’s tears
In the East Room of the White House last Tuesday, President Obama broke down in tears when, bypassing Congress, he publicly announced executive orders on gun control seeking to expand…
Presidential platform
A political line was drawn in 2016 when Hillary Clinton asked: ‘if we broke up the big banks tomorrow, would that end racism?’ With history erased, the question is a…
Trump’s first presidential portfolio lags job, stock market growth
In his first address to the US Congress, President Donald Trump hailed General Motors Co , Harley-Davidson Inc, Intel Corp and seven other companies as innovators and job creators, predicting…
