Politics

These seats may well decide if the BJP is able to cross the 300-mark for the second consecutive time.

Democratic leaders were hoping for House votes as soon as Tuesday on the two pillars of President Joe Biden's domestic agenda, two Democrats said Saturday, as the party mounted its latest push to maneuver the longdelayed legislation through Congress.

The lawyer for Sen. Richard Burrs brotherinlaw told a judge Friday that U.S. regulators should question the senator before quizzing his client in a probe of whether insider trading resulted from secrets about the pandemic's true threat.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is rebranding itself as Meta, an effort to encompass its virtualreality vision for the future. Experts point out that it also appears to be an attempt to change the subject from the Facebook Papers, a document...

Hindu-American culture has enriched the United States and the world, US lawmakers said during the annual Diwali celebrations at the Congress. "We have come a long way as a community where someone can easily say today as I do, that I am a proud Hindu-Ameri...

Louisiana will receive $595 million in federal disaster block grant aid to help with housing restoration and other recovery needs from last year's backtoback blows of Hurricanes Laura and Delta, the state's two U.S. senators announced Tuesday.

The key agenda of the visit is expected to be the civic polls in the state to be held on November 25, being seen as a semi-final before the assembly elections in 2023.

Kejriwal said he prayed to Lord Ram for the happiness and peace for all Indians and also prayed for the end of Covid-19 pandemic.

The Congress has decided to give 40 per cent tickets to women in elections and smartphones to Class 12 pass girls and e-scooters to graduate girls.

Referring to an interview by Harish Rawat, the party’s Punjab in-charge, Tewari said in his “40 years plus in @INCIndia, I have never seen such chaos”.

Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar said GPS-enabled smartwatches will replace the biometric attendance system, which was discontinued due to Covid-19.

In an ambitious statement, the 33-year-old said that it’s only the TMC that can overthrow the BJP at the Centre, and not the Congress, in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Rep. Alexandria OcasioCortez and two other legislators reintroduced a bill in the House on Friday to put immigrants who cleared debris after the Sept. 11 attacks on a fast track to legal immigration status in the United States.

Following a series of protests against El Salvador's government, the legislature dominated by President Nayib Bukeles party has banned mass gatherings to prevent the spread of COVID19 but exempted sporting and cultural events.

El Salvadors congress voted yet again Wednesday to uphold the countrys total ban on abortions.

The 49-year-old Durai Vaiyapuri was not active in politics except for going for campaigns during the elections.