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While the move by the Obama Administration during its last phase was welcomed by the large H-1B community which mainly included Indians, several American groups challenged this decision in a federal court in Washington DC.
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Oil producers in Canada and North Dakota are expected to benefit from a quicker route for crude oil to US Gulf Coast refiners. But going ahead with the pipelines would mark a bitter defeat for Native American tribes and climate activists, who successfully blocked the projects earlier and vowed to fight the decisions through legal action.
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The Obama administration has recently delivered a "very tough" message to Pakistan asking it to dismantle safe havens of Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e- Mohammed and Haqqani network operating from its soil, outgoing US envoy to New Delhi Richard Verma said today.
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In this position, Goel was one of the key players in the India-US relationship in the first two years of the Obama Administration that saw the first state visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in November 2009 and the historic visit of President Barack Obama to India a year later.
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"US companies are optimistic about doing business in India. They see the reforms as a positive sign of India's willingness to make the needed improvements to its business climate," US Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Global Markets, Arun Kumar told PTI.
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The complaint will likely add to rising trade tensions between the world's two largest economies as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office next week with pledges to reduce US trade deficits with China as a top priority.
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The Obama administration has strengthened the US' relationship with India in the last eight years, the State Department has said, exuding confidence that ties would continue to chart the same trajectory under the administration of President-elect Donald Trump.
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Economically, the country has moved from the depths of crisis to robust levels of exports, the longest sustained period of private sector job growth in US history, Kerry said.
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Outgoing Obama Administration today identified strengthening of India-US relationship as one of its top accomplishments in foreign policy and defence sector, with Secretary of State John Kerry articulating that the US should continue to work with India to expand the vast areas of cooperation between the two nations and its peoples.
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"While in India, the Assistant Secretary will meet government leaders to discuss trade and business ties, as well as a range of bilateral, regional, and global issues to deepen the US-India strategic partnership," the State Department said.
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Part of a settlement would include Takata pleading guilty to criminal misconduct, the source told Reuters. The Justice Department has investigated whether Takata hid information from safety regulators and issued misleading statements about the dangers posed by the air bags.
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Describing the reforms undertaken
by the Indian government as "work in progress", a top Obama
Administration official has linked the growth in bilateral
trade between the two countries to India opening up and
liberalising its economy.
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The bank's executive board yesterday said that nominations have now closed. It said Kim will be interviewed by the board, with the expectation that a decision will be made before the Washington-based bank's annual meeting on October 7-9.
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As previously reported, the first shipment of USD 400 million in cash was delivered on January 17, the same day Tehran agreed to release four American prisoners. Two more such shipments totalling another USD 1.3 billion were sent in the next 19 days, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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"Broadly speaking, a deepening, stronger, more cooperative bilateral relationship with India is not something that anybody should fear or worry about," State Department Spokesman John Kirby told reporters at his daily news conference yesterday.
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The US Chamber of Commerce and the Texas Association of Business filed a lawsuit in Texas federal court that said a regulation from the US Treasury Department in April exceeded what the law allows the department to do.
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The Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition in Los Angeles will receive USD 70 million from the federal government to establish the ninth of 15 "manufacturing hubs" that President Barack Obama wants set up across the country.
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"There was a tremendous amount of support and goodwill and his words resonated in many many different audiences around town," Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal told PTI on the sidelines of an event here yesterday.
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Grantees under this programme, christened America's Promise grant competition, will connect tuition-free job-training or education programmes with employers to create apprenticeship curriculums.
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In recent communications with the Obama Administration and also with lawmakers, senior Indian officials have acknowledged that like any society, everything is not perfect in India and there are issues of social justice and human rights within the country.
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The Senators during a Congressional hearing endorsed a move by the Obama Administration to help modernise Indian military including the ambitious defence technology and trade initiative.
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"Largely, the conversation is around better understanding of its desire for membership in APEC and India's approach and philosophy as it comes into largely economically focused body on important issues of open free and fair trade," Indian- American Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal said yesterday.
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The announcement follows a month of intense scrutiny after the release to media organisations of more than 11 million leaked documents detailing the global offshore industry.
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The Customer Due Diligence (CDD) rule, in the works since 2012, and the proposed legislation are meant to hinder criminals from using shell companies to hide ownership and launder money, finance terror, and commit other threats to the global financial system.
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The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) the largest manufacturing outfit in the US in a letter to Commerce Secretary, Penny Pritzker, and US Trade Representative, Michael Froman, has sent a list of priorities which it said needs to be pushed with India.
