Trump picks Indian-American Neil for key government vitality organization

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has designated Indian-American Neil Chatterjee to a key organization position in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, an office accused of supervising America's energy network and choosing multibillion-dollar vitality ventures.

Chatterjee, who is vitality strategy guide to US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, has assumed a vital part in the section of significant vitality, roadway and homestead enactment, the White House said.

Before serving McConnell, he acted as a central in Government Relations for National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and as an assistant to House Republican Conference Chairwoman Deborah Pryce of Ohio.

He started his vocation in Washington, DC, with the House Committee on Ways and Means.

A Lexington, Kentucky local, he is an alum of St Lawrence University and the University of Cincinnati College of Law. 

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In parting shot, John Kerry tears into Israel over settlements

WASHINGTON: US secretary of state John Kerry tore into Israel on Wednesday for settlement-building, accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of dragging Israel away from democracy and forcefully rejecting the notion that America had abandoned Israel with a controversial UN vote. Netanyahu accused the Obama administration of a biased bid to blame Israel for failure to reach a peace deal.

In a farewell speech, Kerry laid out a two-state vision for peace that he won't be in office to implement, but that the US hoped might be heeded even after President Barack Obama's term ends. He defended Obama's move last week to allow the UN Security Council to declare Israeli settlements illegal, the spark that set off an extraordinary and deepening diplomatic spat between the US and its closest Mideast ally.

"If the choice is one state, Israel can either be Jewish or democratic, it cannot be both, and it won't ever really be at peace," Kerry said in a speech that ran more than an hour, a comprehensive airing of grievances that have built up in the Obama administration over eight years but were rarely, until this month, discussed publicly.

Netanyahu pushed back in a hastily arranged televised statement in which he suggested he was done with the Obama administration and ready to deal with President-elect Donald Trump, who has sided squarely with Israel. The Israeli leader faulted Kerry for obsessing over settlements while paying mere "lip service" to Palestinian attacks and incitement of violence.

source:-Timesofindia