Dr. Mohammed Jameel who hails from Telangana has become the First Indian American Muslim elected to the Long Grove Village Board.Speaking on this occasion in winning celebrations in Long Grove he thanked the voters of Long Grove who has voted for him and urged the community to increase participation in civic activities and build a strong community which thereby can lead to more participative and inclusive participation in all levels of Government. Lake County Treasurer Holly Kim was the Chief Guest and congratulated him.

Dr Jameel is very active in Local politics heads the Americans Democratic Forum and has supported in the win of first Indian Muslim woman Nabeela Syed as state representative in the State of Illinois. He is also very active in all spheres of engagement socially and politically in India as chairman of the Indian Americans forum.

He belongs to Warangal, India, and graduated from Deccan medical college. Many eminent personalities both from India and the USA congratulated him on his success prominent amongst them is the president of DAANA Moizuddin. Alumni association from his school Y Sunitha, Inner wheel president Dr Ashish Chauhan MD, Tarun Joshi IPS, Zaheeruddin Ali Khan Managing Editor of Siasat, Padmaja Shaw former professor of communications OU, and from US Dr Rehan Khan ISPJ Washington, Holly Kim Lake county Treasurer, CK Schmidt chief Ela democrat, Roy Manthena Dalit activist Newyork, Irshad khan ex-chairman CIOGC congratulated him on been elected and wished him all success.

The legal battle of former US president Donald Trump is unlikely to end soon and could go even beyond the 2024 presidential elections, a leading Indian-American attorney has said, observing that a presidential pardon also cannot be applied in this case.

Trump, 76, on Tuesday, was arraigned in a criminal case in New York. He became the first former US president to be indicted, arrested and arraigned on criminal charges.

The Republican, the leading candidate from the party for the 2024 race for the White House, pleaded not guilty to 34 criminal charges of falsifying business records in person before State Supreme Court Justice Juan M Merchan.

“It wouldn’t be unusual if this case took two years or more to try, which means by next summer of 2024 when the conventions are being held, this case will not have been tried. In fact, it may not even be tried before the election takes place (in November 2024),” Indian-American attorney from New York Ravi Batra told PTI after Trump’s arraignment in Manhattan on Tuesday.

He was charged in connection with USD 1,30,000 hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the US presidential election in 2016 to cover up an alleged affair.

Mr Batra said there is a strong case against Trump.

Even if Trump is elected in the 2024 presidential elections, it can at most delay his sentencing as a presidential pardon can be applied to a federal crime and not a case in New York State. Being a Democratic bastion it is very unlikely that a Republican can be elected as a New York State Governor in near future, so the possibility of him being pardoned by the New York Governor is next to impossible, he said.

“Let’s assume for a minute he could (win the 2024 elections), it would only delay the sentencing. He could not get a pardon. He couldn’t do it for himself, nor could anybody give him a pardon. Because the federal president cannot pardon someone for state crimes,” Mr Batra said.

“President Biden could pardon him, for example, if special counsel Jack Smith brought charges against him in federal court, and convicted him, then President Biden or a subsequent president could pardon those federal crimes or charged crimes. But only a state governor can pardon the state crimes,” he explained.

Now that a case against Trump has been filed in New York, it is very likely that charges might be filed against him in many states and even by the federal prosecutors against him in multiple cases, he said.

“On a practical level, every time Trump has to be in court, he’s not out politicking. So it does have a consequence because it eats up his calendar. Now, if his lawyers are in court and he’s not, then it doesn’t matter. But if he has to be in court or he has to give depositions, well then he’s not able to politic because he’s gotta give his proper obedience to the rule of law,” he said.

“Politically, it is a different matter. But he’s got enough on his plate, legal, both criminal and civil,” he said.

Responding to a question, Mr Batra said that normal procedures took a back seat during the surrender and arraignment of Trump in a New York court.

“The normal procedure here would’ve been, a person comes in, they do come in handcuffs, that was not followed this time. They normally get a mugshot that was not followed because the actual body of a former president is protected by the Secret Service. So even, New York State law enforcement had to take a step back because they were not allowed to handcuff him,” he said.

“This is an appropriate respect given to the high office in our land. So this is not improper. It is actually quite proper,” Mr Batra said.

India’s Russia-made Sukhoi-30s will engage in dogfights with their American counterparts F-15 Strike Eagle fighter jets in an exercise named ‘Cope India’ that will start from next week.

The exercise between the two sides that was put on hold due to the complexities arising out of the Covid-19 pandemic is being held after a gap of four years.

Top sources told India Today that the US Air Force is bringing its F-15 Strike Eagle fighter aircraft from a Pacific air base to Kalaikunda air base in West Bengal for the Cope India series of wargames.

The Indian side will fly its Su-30MKIs aircraft to take on the American jets in the combat exercise, said sources.

The timing of the exercise with participation of the F-15 fighter aircraft is important as it is one of the contenders for the planned competition for the 114 multi-role fighter aircraft competition by the Indian Air Force. The Indian Air Force is also likely to field its air-borne early warning aircraft and IL-78 mid air-refuelers for the exercise, said sources.

The Indian Air Force has recently been engaged in multiple multi-national exercises where the US has also participated including the EX Desert Flag in the UAE and Ex Cobra Warrior in the UK. Field training exercise focused on enhancing US-India cooperation by building on existing capabilities, aircrew tactics and force employment.

Cope India began in 2004 as a fighter training exercise held at the air station in Gwalior. The exercise has evolved to incorporate subject matter expert exchanges, air mobility training, airdrop training and large-force exercises, in addition to fighter-training exercises. The last edition of the the exercise was held in 2019.

Having learnt the bitter lessons of disruptions in supply chain during and after the COVID-19 crisis, US President Joe Biden wants the entire system of producing and delivering a product or service to start and end in the United States to reduce “vulnerability”, his top economic advisor has said.

He said the Biden administration is looking to build up the American manufacturing capacity in key areas like clean energy production, semiconductors and related industries as well as anything related to infrastructure.

“We have tried to make America a good place to invest for those types of companies that have a choice in terms of where to put their money. We are offering not only the best trained workforce in the world, a highly reliable legal system, but also strong incentives to locate production in the United States,” Indian-American Bharat Ramamurti, Deputy Director of President’s National Economic Council and his Advisor for Strategic Economic Communications, told PTI in an interview on Friday.

Such a policy, he asserted, is not just about jobs.

“The president has made clear that it reduces our vulnerability. We saw during the pandemic that when you rely on products that are made either in China or in Southeast Asia or elsewhere, if you have a disruption in that country or you have disruptions to international shipping, all of a sudden, we can’t make the products that we need to make because we’re missing some of the key inputs that were supposed to be delivered from abroad,” he said.

“Or maybe the costs go up tremendously because of disruptions abroad, reducing the supply. The president wants our supply chains to start and end here in the United States. And the types of investment we’ve seen over the last several months are moving us closer to that reality,” Ramamurthi said in response to a question.

He said policies of the US President has resulted in USD 400 billion worth of private investment coming into the country over the last two years.

“A sharp increase from the years before that and lots of good jobs created across the country. President was in North Carolina earlier this week to talk about a new production facility that was being built there. USD 20 billion invested in Ohio outside of Columbus for new semiconductors by Intel. Micron is investing USD 100 billion in New York and new production there.

“So, these are good paying jobs that don’t necessarily require a college degree, and jobs that can support a family. And at the same time, uh, protecting our financial security, our economic security, and our national security,” the President’s advisor said.

He said now was a “great time” to invest in the United States.

“We are now offering a very hospitable environment for investing, especially if you’re investing in areas like clean energy production, semiconductors and related industries and, anything related to infrastructure,” Ramamurti said.

“We are looking to build up the American manufacturing capacity in those key areas. So, if you’re abroad and have skills or an idea that fits into that set of issues, I think it’s worth looking at the United States. It is not just the incentives that have been put into our tax code and, and otherwise, it’s the quality of workers here in the United States,” he said.

“It’s the kind of legal system that we have. It is access to capital markets, thanks to our securities laws and the Securities and Exchange Commission. There’s a lot that should be appealing about investing here. And again, you’re seeing that with over 400 billion worth of private investment in the United States over the last two years,” the Indian-American said.

Responding to a question on Boeing-Air India deal, he said India and the United States enjoy a “very close” relationship.

The Boeing deal creates a massive number of jobs, not just directly at Boeing, but the most important part in many ways is that all of the different parts that go into the airplane, a lot of those are manufactured across America, Ramamurti said.

And then all of the small businesses who contribute to helping those companies along the supply chain, all of them benefit from this kind of manufacturing deal, he added.

“Largely that’s why the President has been so focused on manufacturing, because not only is it important for our national security for us to make more things here, but manufacturing jobs tend to be high quality, high paying jobs. And they produce additional supporting jobs, further down the supply chain or for small businesses that are located around where new manufacturing capacity would be,” Ramamurti said.

“So that’s the kind of economy that the president is looking to build. He’s talked a lot about wanting to grow the economy from the bottom up and the middle out rather than from the top down, which we have seen unfortunately, be the prevailing economic philosophy, particularly among the Republican Party for the last 20 or 30 years. We have a very different vision and what we have seen so far is that it’s good for business, it’s good for American consumers, it’s good for American families, and we’re gonna keep at it,” he said.