On Wednesday, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke to India’s Defense Minister Rajnath Singh while India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval talked to his US counterpart, Jake Sullivan. The new Biden administration started establishing contacts with Indian counterparts and both...
On Tuesday on the occasion of India’s 72nd Republic Day, the US-India Business Council (USIBC) suggested a series of major recommendations to the Biden administration to strengthen the India-US ties, including reconstitution of the existing US-India Trade and Commercial dialogue...
The Department of Energy stated that the new leaders will direct policy, coordinate across the administration and enact President Joe Biden’s vision for bold action on the climate crisis. The Biden administration appointed four Indian Americans to key positions in...
CEO at Amazon World Wide Consumer Dave Clark reiterated a request Amazon had made to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asking that frontline workers among the company’s more than 800,000 US employees, receive vaccines at the “earliest appropriate...
US President-elect Joe Biden recently appointed Rohit Chopra as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Sameera Fazili as the Deputy Director of the National Economic Council. On Monday, Joe Biden announced Indian American Rohit Chopra as the Director...
Incoming White House Chief of Staff Ron Klein’s memo says executive orders will “change the course.”. On his first day in office, Joe Biden plans to sign a series of executive orders as an attempt to roll back several of...
The California Attorney General's position would fall vacant if the Biden administration confirms Becerra as US Secretary of Health and Human Services. Ash Kalra, former San Jose Assemblyman and current California state Assemblyman representing San Jose, is aiming to replace...
Our Bureau WASHINGTON: President-Elect Joe Biden’s tryst with diversity continued on Tuesday as he picked two more people from ethnic minority communities among five people he appointed to various White House functions. Among six staff members that were named, Vinay...
Our Bureau WASHINGTON: Another Obama administration official finds himself in the Biden administration, and this time he’s gay and he’s Indian American. Gautam Raghavan, a White House LGBTQ+ liaison in President Barack Obama’s administration, will now be deputy director of...
He is one of the three people appointed to the NEC Weeks after he was in the short list, Bharat Ramamurti was appointed a member of the economic council in US President-Elect Joe Biden's cabinet. Ramamurti is currently the Managing...
