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TopicBarack Obama

Topic: Barack Obama

Barack Obama memoir says a lot. But it’s ex-ISI chief Asad Durrani’s book that needs attention

While India is obsessed about what former US President Barack Obama said about Rahul Gandhi, it is a fiction book from Pakistan that we must turn to.

Obama’s description of Rahul Gandhi ‘apt’, many Congress leaders say in private

Former US president Barack Obama, in his upcoming book ‘A Promised Land’, describes Rahul Gandhi as lacking ‘either aptitude or passion to master the subject’.

Covid protection, the Air India way — enjoy refreshments, but keep masks & face shields on

Pre-Truth — snappy, witty and significant snippets from the world of politics and government.

US adversaries had seen a weakened country even before election results, Barack Obama says

Obama says the 'humouring' of Trump’s position by Republican officials 'is one more step in delegitimising not just the incoming Biden administration, but democracy generally.'

Diwali amid Covid, unemployment and a ‘sad’ Rahul Gandhi

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Obama’s appraisal of Rahul is no revelation, Congressmen’s outrage phoney and self-serving

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Rahul Gandhi lacks ‘either aptitude or passion to master subject’, says Obama in new memoir

Former US president Barack Obama writes that Rahul Gandhi had ‘a nervous, unformed quality about him’ and describes Manmohan Singh as having ‘impassive integrity’.

Joe Biden needs a smooth transition for a strong start

President-elect Joe Biden now has work to do in dealing with a likely divided Congress and bringing together the American people as a whole.

How Biden could avoid Obama’s biggest Iran mistake

Resistance to nuclear deal with Iran runs deep in American politics. Ignoring that reality brought us to this sorry pass. That mistake should not be repeated.

New book says Trump hired Black man to play Obama, ‘belittled and fired him’ in video

In Disloyal: A Memoir, Michael Cohen has described Donald Trump as 'a cheat, a liar, a fraud' & a person interested in using the presidency 'exclusively for his personal financial benefit'.

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India’s think tanks double up as lobbyists, give no disclosures. Hurt policymaking

Many 'independent' reports, intended to shape policies, are sponsored by industry groups or entities with deep pockets and vested interests. This process must become transparent.

India may cancel green projects struggling to find clients

While the move could free up grid capacity struggling to keep up with rapid renewable rollout, it would be a major setback for green ambitions. India aims to double clean power capacity to 500 gigawatts by the end of the decade.

India & Israel ink agreement to share, co-develop & co-produce advanced defence tech

Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday. 

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.