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San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Devi Harris, a Barack Obama campaign insider, who also serves on influential policy making committees of the Democratic National Committee and was one of the headliners of the only Indian-American event at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, said her grandmother in Chennai who scrupulously follows the campaign, had told her when she spoke to her on the phone before she left for the convention in Denver, "You let them know I am going to the temple everyday and praying for Barack Obama. "It's very exciting and certainly my grandmother and our family members, not...

The administration of US President Barack Obama is reaching out to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the chief rival of President Asif Ali Zardari, in hopes to find a way to strengthen the country’s government, The New York Times reported late Friday. Sharif, who served prime minister twice during the 1990s, represents the Pakistan Muslim League-N, a coalition that includes a number of Islamist groups. Citing unnamed administration officials, the newspaper said on its website that because of his ties to Islamists, the US government has long held Sharif at arm’s length. But now some Obama administration officials say those...