Politics
Rajasthan Civic Polls: Congress Gets Chairperson Posts to 48 Urban Local Bodies, BJP Secures 37
Apart from the major political parties, three independent candidates -- one from Rashtriya Loktantrik Party and NCP -- managed to get their candidate elected as chairperson to the urban local bodies.
Senate Republicans Back Trump On Eve Of Impeachment Trial
Donald Trumps defenders in the Senate on Sunday rallied around the former president before his impeachment trial, dismissing it as a waste of time and arguing that the former presidents fiery speech before the U.S. Capitol insurrection does not make him r...
Yellen: Biden's Plan Could Restore Full Employment By 2022
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday the country was still in a deep hole with millions of lost jobs but that President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion relief plan could generate enough growth to restore full employment by next year.
Ahead of Assam Polls, BJP Govt Doles Out Money, Incentives to Woo Tea Garden Workers
In Assam, which has 126 Assembly seats among which 40-42 of them are in Upper, Central, and Northern Assam besides Barak Valley, the votes of the tea garden workers play a key role in determining the fate of political parties.
Nadda Launches BJP's 'Rath Yatra' in Bengal: Here's the Poll Plan, Tussle with TMC and Past Experience
BJP national president JP Nadda visited Malda in the morning to take part in a road show and two other programmes in the district.
Gold Gains As Dollar Retreats, U.S. Jobs Report Signals Slow Recovery
Gold rebounded above the $1,800 psychological level on Friday, helped by a retreat in the dollar and data showing slowerthanexpected growth in U.S. employment underpinning the need for additional financial support.
Agriculture Minister Defends Farm Laws in Rajya Sabha, Says Opposition Couldn't Point Out Any Shortcomings
Narendra Singh Tomar said the government is committed to welfare of farmers and to the continuation of the mandi system of procurement of crops on minimum support price (MSP) based mechanism.
US Unemployment Claims Fall To 779,000 But Job Cuts Grind On
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits declined to 779,000 last week, a stillhistorically high total that shows that a sizable number of people keep losing jobs to the viral pandemic.
Global Shares Mixed On Caution After Modest US Gains
Asian shares fell but European benchmarks edged higher Thursday as caution set in over company earnings reports, recent choppy trading in technology stocks and prospects for more economic stimulus for a world battling a pandemic.
Experts Group Urges Delayed US Troop Pullout In Afghanistan
The United States should urgently reopen talks with the Taliban to delay a full withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan beyond the May 1 deadline agreed to by the Trump administration, a bipartisan experts group recommended Wednesday after months of st...
GM Hit By Chip Shortage, To Cut Production At Four Plants
General Motors Co became the latest automaker hit by the global shortage of semiconductor chips as the U.S. automaker said on Wednesday it will take down production next week at four assembly plants.
World Shares Mostly Higher As Investors Focus On US Stimulus
World shares were mostly higher on Wednesday as investors bet on eventual approval of a relatively big version of President Joe Biden's pandemic relief bill. The advance followed a broad rally on Wall Street, with solid contributions from Big Tech compani...
Arrested PDP Youth Leader Para Being Kept under 'Inhuman Conditions and Tortured', Alleges Mehbooba
"J&K CID has joined the list of central agencies that work to terrorise Kashmiris & falsely implicate them.... Waheed is being persecuted & tortured to admit the false allegations. Since an admission didn't happen he is being kept under inhuman conditions...
Traders Who Default on Payments Will Be Slapped With Court Cases, Auction of Property, Says Shivraj Govt
The MP government has already acted against several trading firms over non-payment of dues to farmers after crop procurement outside mandis.
Vietnam OKs AstraZeneca Vaccine, Cuts Short Communist Party Congress
Vietnam approved its first vaccine for the new coronavirus and cut short a key ruling Communist Party meeting on Saturday as it battled its biggest flareup yet of COVID19, state media reported.
'Unfortunate': BJP Hits Out at Oppn For Boycotting Kovind's Address to Parliament, Says President Above Political Differences
BJP leader and Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad singled out the Congress, the largest Opposition party which is among the 20 parties that boycotted the address, in his attack, saying its "arrogance" is the "real problem" as it believes that it is bound...