Tag: Barack Obama

North-North ties

There is a reason why the ‘developed world’ has been bestowed its moniker ~ because it’s always about ‘economy first’ in those parts.

September 6, 2022

Barack Obama wins Emmy for ‘Our Great National Parks’ documentaries

Barack Obama won the Outstanding Narrator award at the Creative Arts Emmy ceremony against Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War), David Attenborough's 'The Mating Game', W. Kamau Bell's four-part documentary 'We Need to Talk About Cosby' and Lupita Nyong'o (Serengeti II) in a star-studded category.

September 5, 2022

Modi wishes quick recovery to Obama from COVID

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today wished speedy recovery to former US President Barack Obama who has tested positive for COVID-19.

March 14, 2022

The art of being Kamala Harris

Modern-day vice presidents like Pence and Harris have had to appear utterly loyal to the president.

May 27, 2021

Obama The Worst?

Obama simply saw no percentage in promoting policies against stiff opposition from his campaign donors. If the measure of a presidency is the failure, and indeed disinclination, to meet the high expectations one generates, Obama should go down as the most disappointing president in American history.

January 9, 2021

Obama, Biden and India

Every reader ought to notice that Barack Obama has gone out of his way in his biography to say how much of his childhood years he spent listening to the episodes in the Ramayana and Mahabharata. This of course, implies his appetite for spiritualism as well as his interest.

November 21, 2020

‘Spent part of childhood listening to epic Hindu tales of Ramayana and Mahabharata’: Barack Obama

Obama says he had never been to India before his Presidential visit in 2010, but the country had 'always held a special place in my imagination'.

November 17, 2020

Inept students

The Congress has bumbled from crisis to crisis after its momentous loss in the 2014 parliamentary election.

November 14, 2020

Biden ahead of Trump in most national, state-level polls

On the eve of Election Day, Biden was in the lead in the battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida, Ohio and Georgia, which all voted for Trump in the 2016 election.

November 3, 2020

US election 2020: Donald Trump tells voters Biden is ‘your worst nightmare’

Trump has chosen the White House South Lawn as the location for his acceptance speech — a controversial decision given that presidents are legally required to separate their campaigning from taxpayer-funded governing.

August 21, 2020

US election: Donald Trump never took presidency ‘seriously’, says Barack Obama

Obama took a back seat during the hotly contested Democratic primaries but is now throwing his still considerable sway behind Biden's campaign.

August 20, 2020

Donald Trump shows ‘utter lack of empathy’: Michelle Obama

“Let me be as honest and clear as I possibly can: Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country", she further added.

August 18, 2020

Kamala Harris promises jobs, affordable care act as part of Biden administration

During the speech she mentioned a lot of sectors where the current administration has created a complete mess.

August 13, 2020

Barack Obama’s advice made Biden choose Kamala Harris as vice presidential running mate: Report

Barack Obama, the first Black American President, said Kamala Harris "is more than prepared for the job," adding that it is, "a good day for our country".

August 12, 2020

US teen accused of massive twitter hack pleads not guilty

The official accounts of Apple, Uber, Kanye West, Bill Gates, Barack Obama and others were also affected.

August 5, 2020

Donald Trump is first racist US president, says Joe Biden

He responded by saying it was "absolutely sickening" how Trump “deals with people based on the color of their skin, their national origin, where they’re from.”

July 23, 2020

‘Tough day for us at Twitter’: Jack Dorsey after massive hack of high-profile accounts

Twitter suffered a major security breach on Wednesday as hackers accessed its internal systems to hijack accounts of some of the prominent figures including US presidential candidate Joe Biden, former American President Barack Obama, among others.

July 16, 2020