President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping’s more than three-hour virtual talk concluded with the leaders of the superpowers agreeing they need to tread carefully as their nations find themselves in an increasingly fraught competition. Facing domestic pressures at home, both Biden and Xi seemed determined to lower the temperature in what for both sides…Continue Reading
SynopsisDemocrats want to pass the $1.75 trillion spending bill and a $1 trillion infrastructure measure that has already been approved by the Senate by Thanksgiving later this month. Party leaders said a vote was possible on Thursday night.AgenciesA leading moderate Democrat raised doubts about the odds of quickly passing the “Build Back Better” bill on…Continue Reading
As India celebrated Diwali, US President Joe Biden also greeted Indians on Diwali saying: “May the light of Diwali remind us that from darkness there is knowledge, wisdom, and truth. From division, unity.” May the light of Diwali remind us that from darkness there is knowledge, wisdom, and truth. From division, unity. From despair, hope. To…Continue Reading
US President Joe Biden was hosting two pivotal senators for meetings in Delaware on Sunday (AP)WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden was hosting two pivotal senators for meetings in Delaware on Sunday in hopes of resolving lingering disputes over Democrats’ long-stalled effort to craft an expansive social and environment measure. Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.,…Continue Reading
India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman here said the Biden Administration and leaders from the corporate sector in the US have welcomed recent economic reforms introduced by her government. “The reforms that we’ve undertaken, particularly the steps taken for the withdrawal of the retrospective tax has been mentioned by the United States Administration as a very…Continue Reading