Nisha Desai Biswal

US President Joe Biden intends to nominate Indian-American Nisha Desai Biswal to a top administrative position in the US International Development Finance Commission, the White House said Monday.

President of US-India Business Council (USIBC) Nisha Desai Biswal has said India should present its growth vision and why businesses should look to invest in the country at a time when the global economy is beset with challenges.

Some of the former top US diplomats and foreign policy experts have praised the appointment of S Jaishankar as the new External Affairs Minister and have exuded confidence that US-India strategic ties will be further enhanced under his watch.

Ahead of the Union Budget, corporate America has urged Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for further reduction in tax uncertainty for multinational companies and institutional investors, a step which it said would help attract more foreign direct investments to India

The US-India relationship does not have just a geopolitical aspect but an incredibly important geo-economics dimension in which the private sector can play a key role, Nisha Desai Biswal has said ahead of her visit to India this week as the president of a top business advocacy group.

Amid the ongoing standoff between Indian and Chinese troops at the Dokalam area in the Sikkim sector, a former US diplomat has said that China needs to acknowledge that India is "a force to be reckoned with" and other countries in the region are unsettled by Beijing's behaviour.

"The issue of H1B and the rhetoric that has been flying around all of that, I think is going to be a source of tension," former US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal told PTI.

Two Indian-American lawmakers along with two former top Obama Administration diplomats have launched a community-wide effort to oppose the "unlawful, unconstitutional, and un-American" executive orders that impacts the immigrant community in the US imposed by President Donald Trump on seven Muslim countries.

Outgoing US President Barack Obama telephoned Prime Minister Narendra Modi to thank him for his partnership that enhanced the relations between India and America, the White House has said.

Highlighting the post-election fear and anxiety among immigrants, a senior Indian-American official in the Obama Administration has said she experienced it in her own home when the children asked if Donald Trump's win meant they will "have to leave" the country.

China today said admission of non-NPT signatories in the Nuclear Suppliers Group or NSG cannot be a "farewell gift" for countries to give to each other, a day after the outgoing Obama administration asserted that Beijing was an "outlier" in the efforts to make India a member of the elite nuclear club.

The latest batch of emails released by WikiLeaks from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta gives an insight into the planning done by the Obama administration to ensure a successful visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Silicon Valley in 2015.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of Indo-US ties has been christened the "Modi Doctrine" by Nisha Desai Biswal, the US' Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia.

US senators on Tuesday questioned whether India's development of Iran's Chabahar port for trade access risked violating international sanctions, and a State Department official assured them the administration would closely examine the project.

India needs to modernise and reform its economic governance to expand trade and attract the kind of foreign direct investment it needs to build infrastructure, a top US official has said.

US President Joe Biden intends to nominate Indian-American Nisha Desai Biswal to a top administrative position in the US International Development Finance Commission, the White House said Monday.

President of US-India Business Council (USIBC) Nisha Desai Biswal has said India should present its growth vision and why businesses should look to invest in the country at a time when the global economy is beset with challenges.

Some of the former top US diplomats and foreign policy experts have praised the appointment of S Jaishankar as the new External Affairs Minister and have exuded confidence that US-India strategic ties will be further enhanced under his watch.

Ahead of the Union Budget, corporate America has urged Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for further reduction in tax uncertainty for multinational companies and institutional investors, a step which it said would help attract more foreign direct investments to India

The US-India relationship does not have just a geopolitical aspect but an incredibly important geo-economics dimension in which the private sector can play a key role, Nisha Desai Biswal has said ahead of her visit to India this week as the president of a top business advocacy group.

Amid the ongoing standoff between Indian and Chinese troops at the Dokalam area in the Sikkim sector, a former US diplomat has said that China needs to acknowledge that India is "a force to be reckoned with" and other countries in the region are unsettled by Beijing's behaviour.

"The issue of H1B and the rhetoric that has been flying around all of that, I think is going to be a source of tension," former US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal told PTI.

Two Indian-American lawmakers along with two former top Obama Administration diplomats have launched a community-wide effort to oppose the "unlawful, unconstitutional, and un-American" executive orders that impacts the immigrant community in the US imposed by President Donald Trump on seven Muslim countries.

Outgoing US President Barack Obama telephoned Prime Minister Narendra Modi to thank him for his partnership that enhanced the relations between India and America, the White House has said.

Highlighting the post-election fear and anxiety among immigrants, a senior Indian-American official in the Obama Administration has said she experienced it in her own home when the children asked if Donald Trump's win meant they will "have to leave" the country.

China today said admission of non-NPT signatories in the Nuclear Suppliers Group or NSG cannot be a "farewell gift" for countries to give to each other, a day after the outgoing Obama administration asserted that Beijing was an "outlier" in the efforts to make India a member of the elite nuclear club.

The latest batch of emails released by WikiLeaks from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta gives an insight into the planning done by the Obama administration to ensure a successful visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Silicon Valley in 2015.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of Indo-US ties has been christened the "Modi Doctrine" by Nisha Desai Biswal, the US' Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia.

US senators on Tuesday questioned whether India's development of Iran's Chabahar port for trade access risked violating international sanctions, and a State Department official assured them the administration would closely examine the project.

India needs to modernise and reform its economic governance to expand trade and attract the kind of foreign direct investment it needs to build infrastructure, a top US official has said.