Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, who ran a foreign policy-focused campaign for the presidential nomination of a party she sharply criticized, announced on Thursday that she was dropping out of the race.
Buoyed by some major endorsements and a campaign kitty flush with funds in excess of $500,000, which is more than a seven to one advantage over his Democratic opponents, including Charlotte Councilwoman Dimple Ajmera and even the Republican incumbent, Aaron ‘Ronnie’ Chatterji, is on tap to easily win the Democratic primary for the post of treasurer of North Carolina.
Donald Trump’s first visit to India as President of the United States, will be heavy on the optics but light on tangible deliverables, according to leading strategic experts and policy analysts.
As much as erstwhile Indian Ambassador to the U.S. Harsh Vardhan Shringla’s appointment as Foreign Secretary was perhaps the worst kept secret in diplomatic circles so is that of his successor in Washington, D.C., Taranjit Singh Sandhu, whose appointment, while still not official, is said to be a done deal.
In a major shot in the arm for the Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, particularly at a time when the Vermont Senator is engaged in a bitter feud with Sen. Elizabeth Warren over an explosive controversy on whether a woman can beat President Donald Trump in November, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), one of the leading progressives and among the most high profile women of color in the U.S. Congress, has endorsed Sanders over Warren.
Perhaps the most emotional and moving remarks at the Hanukkah ceremony on Dec. 12 on Capitol Hill were delivered by Rabbi Levi Shemtov, the executive vice president of American Friends of Lubavitch (Chabad) based in Washington D.C., when he recalled the call he received from then Indian Ambassador to the U.S. Ronen Sen in the aftermath of the horrific Mumbai terrorist attacks on Nov. 26-29, 2008.
Two Indian-Americans made history in Virginia by winning their bids for the state legislature in the Nov. 5 election. Ghazala Hashmi became the first Muslim woman to be elected to the Virginia State Senate, while Suhas Subramanyam was elected to the Virginia State House of Representative.
Two of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s top aides who were instrumental in forging her unexpected path to victory last year are leaving Capitol Hill, less than a month after one of them ignited a firestorm by challenging Speaker Nancy Pelosi and comparing moderate House Democrats to segregationists.
Renowned Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has won the People’s Choice Award at the recently-concluded Revere Beach International Sand Sculpting Festival in Boston, Massachusetts.
Former Republican U.S. Senator and erstwhile Governor of Kansas, who is currently the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, was honored on June 24 with the Hindu American Foundation’s Mahatma Gandhi Award for Advancing Pluralism.
