Joe Biden, who will become the United States president in January, appointed on Friday an Indian American, Mala Adiga, to be the policy director for his wife Jill, who will be the First Lady

As the patron of the Taliban,  Pakistan will wield more direct influence over Afghanistan as Washington winds down its involvement, writes Arul Louis for South Asia Monitor 

The United States backs the right of the Tibetan Buddhists to select the next Dalai Lama and the Chinese Communist Party does not have the authority, according to a US official dealing with international religious matters

Joe Biden, who will take over as United States President in January, has told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that alongside Kamala Harris he wants to strengthen and expand relations between their countries

India's Permanent Representative T.S. Tirumurti has called out Pakistan's “Pavlovian” response at the world body whenever India is mentioned, making it bring up its perceived grievances whatever matter is under discussion

Former United States President Barack Obama appears to have reinforced the West's worst stereotypical picture of India as a country with “all-too-pervasive” violence and politics revolving around “around religion, clan, and caste” in his latest memoir

Two Indian Americans have been named to head key teams that will help Joe Biden's administration to hit the ground running as soon as he is sworn-in as president on January 20

A US appeals court has ruled against Asian students – a category that includes Indians – in a case they brought against Harvard University saying it discriminated against them in admissions and it is likely to end up in the Supreme Court

With two favoured Indian American candidates losing their elections to the House of Representatives, the strength of the “samosa caucus” – as the group of Indian American members of the House fondly call themselves – will remain at four as before

Indian American organisations and leaders are seeing the election of Kamala Harris as the next vice president as a vindication of the dream of America as the land of opportunities and look forward to working with her and Joe Biden as president in healing the national divide