US panel wants Modi included on lookout list besides visa ban

The US Senate judiciary committee's unanimous approval to Srikanth 'Sri' Srinivasan's nomination has ensured his confirmation by Senate to be a slam dunk; and seat on influential DC Appeals Court could be catalyst toward the Indian American judge's Supreme Court nomination, reports Aziz Haniffa. The US Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday unanimously approved the nomination of Srikanth 'Sri' Srinivasan, 46, to a federal judgeship in the US Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia -- the ...

'When one speaks to Indian intelligence officials, they will tell you "We have a better understanding of Pakistani groups than we have of our own indigenous networks".' Aziz Haniffa reports from Washington, DC. One of the foremost experts on the Lashkar-e-Tayiba believes that post-2014 -- once US and NATO troops withdraw from Afghanistan -- the Lashkar and other Pakistan-based terror groups could revive their terrorism against India. Stephen Tankel, author of Storming the World Stage: The ...

'Many in Pakistan were thinking about taking Mohammad Saeed from the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and making him the pole around which they would bring in and demilitarise militants and turn them into a political entity in Pakistan.'Aziz Haniffa listens to startling revelations in Washington, DC.Far from arresting Mohammad Saeed -- leader of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayiba, which is funded and supported by the Inter-Services Intelligence and the patron of the conspiracy behind the 26/11 Mumbai terror ...

Renowned terror expert and author Stephen Tankel believes Indian intelligence agencies know more about Pak-based terror groups than it knows about indigenous Indian Mujahiddin. Also, LeT and other outfits might revive their terrorism against India post-2014. Aziz Haniffa reports. American terrorism expert Stephen Tankel, who did extensive field research in India last year, has found that Indian intelligence knows more about Pakistani terror groups than it knows about its own indigenous militant ...

'Certainly it could embolden some Hindu extremists. It could also embolden some fundamental extremists. Probably elements on both sides would seek to capitalise and one would worry about the potential tit-for-tat escalation of violence.' Aziz Haniffa listens to concerns at a Washington, DC think-tank about Narendra Modi's possible rise as India's prime minister. If Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is elected prime minister after the next general election, it would most certainly embolden ...

'India will succeed. I know this past year has caused a lot of concern, but this year is over and by elections we will achieve our ambitious economic agenda.' Aziz Haniffa on P Chidambaram's encounter with the who's who of American business in Washington, DC. Finance Minister P Chidambaram met with investors in Washington, DC, on Wednesday at a private interaction hosted by the US-India Business Council as part of his week-long North America investor 'road show,' aimed at attracting foreign ...

Indian American physicians and entrepreneurs, who invested an estimated $25 million in Dr Akshay Desai’s Universal Health Care Group Inc, are seething in anger after the company filed for bankruptcy. “The crook”, as the investors and friends call Dr Desai today, has gone underground. Aziz Haniffa reports After Federal Bureau of Investigation agents last month raided the headquarters of former Republican Party stalwart Dr Akshay Desai’s Universal Health Care Group Inc, in ...

  US Principal Deputy Solicitor General Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan on Wednesday moved a step closer to creating history, reports Aziz Haniffa.   Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan, 45, currently the principal deputy solicitor general -- who is already being talked of as a potential supreme court nominee the next time a vacancy arises in the United States’ highest court -- Wednesday moved one step closer to creating history by becoming the first South Asian American ...

Bangalore: Vijay Sazawal, an Indian American nuclear expert has been reappointed to serve on the Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee, by the U.S. Department of Commerce, reports PTI. He will take the role of an advisor to the Government of ...