Obama nominates Indian-American Nisha Biswal as assistant secretary of state for South Asia

In a striking development, President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated Nisha Desai Biswal, an accomplished Indian-American administrator, to head the South Asia bureau in the US state department.

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