Us commander to resign due to comments made by him

A Senior US commander  named Maj Gen Peter Fuller, who was the deputy commander of Nato’s Afghan training mission,has been dismissed after he made aome offensive comments about Afghanistan’s leaders.However,it still have to be decided whether he will reassign or retire. He was not the first one to face these kind of charges ,however. Gen Stanley McChrystal, who was commander of US forces in Afghanistan in June 2010  resigned after making critical comments in the Rolling Stone magazine about  some senior members of the Obama administration.

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US consulate to be closed for 7 days from November 15th

us_flagThe US Consulate at Lincoln House in Breach Candy and the American Centre at Church gate will be closed to public from November 15th to 21st. This is for the purpose of shifting the consulate services from these locations to Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC). Presently the windows available at the consulate are only 13. This was considered inadequate to meet the growing VISA demands and to address the US citizens. The proposed new facility at Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) will have 44 windows to look into these matters.

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Obama to tackle drug shortage issue

Obama_BarakPresident Barack Obama signed an executive order on Monday to address an escalating shortage of life-saving medicines, his newest effort to advance social and economic measures that have stalled in Congress. It is the fifth step he has taken so far in the past one week to gain an advantage over his Republicans rivals and to show the voters he is serious about tackling the country’s problems ahead the 2012 re-elections.

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$1B Foreclosure Programme failed to turn out as expected

foreclosure$1 Billion Foreclosure Program intended to help unemployed and impoverished homeowners with short-term help and thereby shun foreclosure had failed to reach its objective of serving more than 30,000 homeowners over 32 states. Only $ 432 million will be spending for the purpose and the rest will return to US Treasury as stated by a government official.

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US money owing – Boehner informs republicans to fall in line

US money owingMr Boehner’s petition to middle-of-the-road House Republicans came regardless of a White House veto risk and denial from Democratic leaders in the Senate. Wall Street suffered its most terrible day in two months, as worries mounted the US would fail to sanction more borrowing. The US jeopardy defaults if the debt maximum value is not raised by 2 August. The federal government runs a budget discrepancy that topped $1.5tn (£920bn) earlier this year, and has combined a nationwide arrears of $14.3tn. Mr Boehner’s graph would trim $917bn from the US budget debit over 10 years and would raise the debt limit by up to $900bn. Legislators have been confined in weeks of harsh dialogue over raising the US borrowing boundary by the cut-off date of 2 August. The US funds department has alleged it will no longer be able to have a loan of money on that date, and forecasters say soon after that it will be not capable to pay all of its bills. The Dow Jones Industrial Average wrecked the day down 1.59%. The broader S&P 500 index misplaced 2.03%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq stopped down 2.65%. All the great, momentous negotiations, Mr Obama is discussion about unsuccessful at the first barrier, and the second and third. They took moment in time, years, and decades. This closing date is just days gone. In latest decades, the US Congress has enlarged the government’s borrowing ability dozens of times as a matter of practice, but this year conformist Republicans have required sudden cuts to the budget shortage as the price of an enhance.

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PENTAGON ENDS MILITARY GAY BAN

Official reported that Leon Panetta, Pentagon chief, has decided to end the ban on homosexuals serving in the armed forces ending the 17 yr old ban.

His decision has come to be quite as expected as it comes two weeks after the chiefs of the military services told Panetta that such a ban wouldn’t affect the efficiency of the armed forces. It is highly notable that the dismantling of the ban was on the agenda of President Obama in his campaign promise. The announcement is reported to be made today as the decision has not been made public yet. In the light of this matter a San Francisco appeals court added that the government cannot investigate, penalize or discharge anyone for being openly gay.

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