Obama submits India n-deal report to Congress

September 6th, 2009 TEHRAN -) India has exited from a gas pipeline deal it earlier planned with Iran and Pakistan, Mehr news agency reported citing a Pakistani diplomat. India definitely quitted the IPI (India-Pakistan-Iran) gas pipeline deal, the report said citing Pakistani ambassador to Iran, Muhammad Bux Abbasi, as saying here Sunday.

August 19th, 2009 White House: Obama would go to moon for his goalWASHINGTON — How far is President Barack Obama willing to go for a deal on overhauling the health care system? Try all the way to the moon. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs joked Wednesday that Obama would orbit the moon if he thought it would help get a deal on a bill Congress can vote on after it returns from summer break.

July 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Hours after India and the US reached agreement over End Use Monitoring of sensitive technology, President Barack Obama Tuesday sent US Congress his first report on the India-US civil nuclear deal inked last October. "The report covers the period of October 4, 2008, to June 30, 2009.

July 4th, 2009 DHAKA - The Bangladesh government is coming under increasing pressures from its own ministers and ruling Awami League lawmakers to hold urgent bilateral talks with India, which is planning to build a dam on the Barak river the two neighbours share, a media report here said Saturday. Pressures are mounting as the government prepares to send a delegation of parliamentarians and experts to visit the project site.

June 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is fully committed to implementing the landmark India-US civil nuclear deal, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has declared noting that it had "removed the final barrier to broader cooperation between us." The deal provided a framework for economic and technical cooperation between the two countries and allowed them to move beyond concerns about the status of India's nuclear programme, she said at the US-India Business Council's (USI BC) Synergies Summit here Wednesday. Noting that the status of India's nuclear programme had "dominated our relationship for much of the last decade", Clinton said the completion of the deal marked the culmination of the "second stage" in the history of India-US relations.

June 17th, 2009 Lee and Obama discuss free trade dealWASHINGTON — South Korean President Lee Myung-bak is urging representatives of top U.S. companies to push for quick ratification of a stalled U.S.-South Korean free trade deal.

June 17th, 2009 Wisconsin submits proposal to revive GM plantJANESVILLE, Wis. — Wisconsin has submitted a proposal to General Motors Corp.

June 2nd, 2009 Convicted federal judge submits resignation letterHOUSTON — A convicted federal judge told the president Tuesday he would resign from the bench in June 2010, nearly a year after he enters prison for lying about sexually abusing two assistants. U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent would draw a full salary of $174,000 a year and benefits until the resignation takes effect, said his lawyer, Dick DeGuerin.

May 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Communist Party of India (CPI) Sunday ruled out post-poll alliance with the Congress saying the party had 'betrayed' the nation by signing the civil nuclear deal with the US. 'We do feel that the India-US civil nuclear deal is a betrayal of the Congress,' said Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy, deputy general secretary of the CPI.

May 3rd, 2009 JAIPUR - Congress general secretary Sunday talked about the development projects initiated by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government to woo voters at a rally in Barmer district of Rajasthan. While castigating the Bharatiya Janata Party's 'India Shining' slogan in the last polls, Rahul said: 'They had India Shining ideology, which was different from us.

April 29th, 2009 JODHPUR - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that only the Congress Party was equipped to tackle recession and terrorism. "In this time of economic recession, you need a government who has the experience to tackle with such situations.

April 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday announced a 'comprehensive action plan' by the Congress party to tackle terrorism and said only the Congress could effectively deal with the scourge.

March 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US government has given the go-ahead to the $2.1-billion contract for Boeing Co. to supply eight P-8i long-range maritime surveillance planes to India, a media report said.

March 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The landmark India-US civil nuclear deal is on track with both sides determined to go forward with an initiative that has raised their relationship to a new level. 'I was really reassured by the determination to go through it,' Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said at a press conference here Wednesday after three days of an intense dialogue with the new Obama administration.

February 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US lawmakers reached a compromise deal Wednesday on a record economic recovery package, which could allow the plan to pass both houses of Congress before the end of the week. The Senate and House of Representatives ironed out differences in separate versions of the stimulus bill and knocked the total price tag down to $789 billion, including a mixture of tax cuts and government spending projects to pull the US out of its worst recession in decades.