The white house reveals that on Feb 5, US Vice President Joe Biden called Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss about regional and global issues of mutual concern. Biden assures Mr. Singh that US will remain stick to its commitment in building a global, strategic partnership with India.

PM Manmohan Singh is worried for the growing inflation which is hampering the growth of the country. He asked Biden to ignore mandi taxes, octroi and local taxes for taming inflation.

It has been reported that U. S. Vice President Joe Biden Sunday countered suggestions of heavy Democratic losses in November, saying, "We're going to shock the heck out of everybody."

"I don't think the losses are going to be bad at all. I think we're going to shock the heck out of everybody.. We're going to be in great shape," Biden said, a week after White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Democrats could lose their majority in the House.

It has been reported that U. S. Vice President Joe Biden broke ground on Monday on a Midland, Mich., battery plant expected to employ 720 people when completed.

The Detroit Free Press reported on Monday that the Dow Kokam lithium-ion battery plant, expected to be completed in 2015, is one of several planned in Michigan, and among several receiving $2.4 billion in federal grants.

Biden said while chatting with construction workers hired to build the plant, "This is the beginning of a revolution in the production of energy in the country."

Vice President Joe Biden said on Monday that U. S. soldiers fight every day to protect the values and freedoms Americans enjoy against a still-threatening enemy.

Biden said during a Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, "As the world around us shrinks ... trouble halfway around the globe can and will visit us, the objective of our new enemy is to change our values, change how we live our lives, change what it means to be an American."

Financial disclosure reports issued on Monday have indicated that U. S. President Barack Obama is a multimillionaire and Vice President Joe Biden is far from being one.

According to the reports, the disclosure forms reveal Obama lists $1 million to $5 million in Treasury bills and $500,000 to $1 million in Treasury notes among his assets through last year. The bulk of his wealth comes from sales of his books "Dreams From My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope."

According to media reports, Vice President Joe Biden advised graduates of the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice to stay optimistic and "make things better."

Change is under way in the United States and urged graduates to stay positive despite an array of problems that includes a deep recession and two wars, Biden, whose daughter Ashley Biden was among the 150 students graduating Monday from the school of social work and social policy, told the commencement audience.

The White House announced on Tuesday that fifteen U. S. communities will serve as pilots for health information technology programs funded through stimulus funds.

The programs would share $220 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds that the administration says would streamline record-keeping and create thousands of jobs in an emerging healthcare field, Vice President Joe Biden and Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said.

Israeli officials have said that Iran will be the key topic when U. S. Vice President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu meet in Jerusalem.

The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday that Biden is expected to add his voice to those of a number of U. S. officials who have visited the Middle East to coordinate positions on Iran's nuclear program.

Washington, Jan 9 : US Vice President Joe Biden's mother Catherine passed away Friday at the age of 92.

Biden said she died "peacefully" in the company of much of her family in their home state of Delaware. She was married for 61 years to Biden's father, who passed away in 2002.

"Her strength, which was immeasurable, will live on in all of us," Biden said in a statement.(DPA)

Washington, Dec. 16 : Terming the establishment of peace in the AFPAK region as “a hell of process”, US Vice President Joe Biden has said stabilising Pakistan and defeating Al Qaeda are America’s main strategic interests in South Asia, and that it is committed to achieving its target.

In an interview to the MSNBC television channel, Biden said President Obama had clearly laid out Washington’s interests in the AFPAK region, which was ‘defeating Al Qaeda and stabilising Pakistan.’

Bucharest  - US Vice-President Joe Biden Thursday thanked the government of Romania for its quick backing of new plans for a US missile defence programme.

The new system, which replaces a recently scrapped Bush-era plan that would have based planned facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic, is better constructed to protect both Romania and the United States, Biden told Romanian President Traian Basescu.

Bucharest  - US Vice-President Joe Biden Thursday thanked the government of Romania for its quick backing of new plans for a US missile defence programme.

The new system, which replaces a recently scrapped Bush-era plan that would have based planned facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic, is better constructed to protect both Romania and the United States, Biden told Romanian President Traian Basescu.

Bucharest  - US Vice-President Joe Biden Thursday thanked the government of Romania for its quick backing of new plans for a US missile defence programme.

The new system, which replaces a recently scrapped Bush-era plan that would have based planned facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic, is better constructed to protect both Romania and the United States, Biden told Romanian President Traian Basescu.

Warsaw  - The US will strike no deals with Russia at the expense of Central Europe, US Vice President Joe Biden told a Polish daily as he began a visit to discuss a new missile defence shield and to mend ailing relations after original plans for the system were scrapped.

"Nothing about you without you," Biden said in an interview with the daily Rzeczpospolita. He added that the new missile shield is more effective, versatile and includes more advanced technology than the previous Bush-era proposal.

Washington, Oct. 9 : Worried by the wide scale criticism of the Kerry Lugar Bill in Pakistan, US Vice President Joe Biden has said that Washington is considering Islamabad’s reservations on the aid Bill.

Biden met Pakistani ambassador-at-large Raffat Mahmood in Washington and told him that the Obama Administration is aware of Pakistan’s concerns and is examining them, The News reports.

Biden pointed out that the Bill, which was introduced earlier in the Senate, did not contain any questionable terms and conditions.

Baghdad - US Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday appeared unfazed by the lethal rocket attacks that greeted his arrival in Baghdad the night before, exchanging gifts and joking with Iraqi officials.

Iraqi police said that two people died and five were wounded in Tuesday night's rocket attacks, which the Mujahidine Army insurgent group called a "reception" for Biden in claiming responsibility on an Islamist website, according to Washington SITE Intelligence Group.

Baghdad - US Vice President Joe Biden landed in Baghdad on Tuesday, in an unannounced trip, the Dubai-based al-Arabiya satellite news network reported.

Al-Arabiya said Biden would meet with several leading Iraqi politicians to review preparations for elections scheduled to take place in January and to discuss the US role in Iraq following US troop withdrawals from Iraqi cities and towns in June. (dpa)

Washington, Aug. 20 : US Vice President Joe Biden has proven his mettle within the Obama administration, and according to an article in the Los Angeles Times, he may be setting his sights on contesting the presidential elections in 2016.

"Biden''s ambitions go beyond serving as an influential vice president. He doesn''t necessarily believe his political career has peaked. Aides said he might go for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. He would be 74 upon taking office, but his staff insists that''s not too old," the article in the paper says.

Florida (US), Aug. 20 : Vice President Joe Biden has acknowledged that Barack Obama wears the pants in the White House.

He admitted this during a fundraising dinner Wednesday in Florida, when he responded to a suggestion that President Bush leaned heavily on Vice President Cheney for guidance.

That''s not how the Obama administration works, Biden reportedly told about 150 political donors at the Orlando event.

Washington - The United States will give up to 2.3 billion dollars in tax credits to green manufacturers in the latest disbursement Thursday of the government's economic stimulus package.

The new credits will go to manufacturers of clean energy equipment including wind, solar, geothermal energy and electric car batteries. Vice President Joe Biden said it marked the latest effort both to revive the US economy and transition away from fossil fuels.