Politics

Building elaborate venues for Beijing's 2022 Winter Olympics is the easy part for China, just as it was for the city's Summer Olympics in 2008. The competition venues are ready, and non-competition sites will be completed this summer with the Games set to...

President Joe Biden is expected to address the National Prayer Breakfast, a Washington tradition that calls on political combatants to set aside their differences for one morning.

Both benchmark oil contracts hovered near their highest levels in about a year on Wednesday, boosted by a drawdown in U.S. crude and gasoline stocks that added to demand recovery hopes fueled by OPEC+'s forecast of a deficit in the market this year.

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were on pace to open higher on Wednesday after strong quarterly showing from heavyweights Alphabet and Amazon, while investors counted on more fiscal stimulus to aid an economic recovery.

Addressing reporters at the end of a joint meeting of parties of the alliance here on Tuesday night, Chief Minister V Narayanasamy said leaders of 18 parties, including the left parties, the VCK, and students outfits affiliated to the alliance had partici...

Video game maker EA Sports announced Tuesday that it is bringing back its college football series, which was shelved eight years ago after the NCAA was sued for not sharing revenue from the game with college athletes.

U.S. stock indexes jumped more than 1.5% on Tuesday with Amazon and Googleparent Alphabet set to wrap up results from the socalled FAANG group of stocks, while signs on progress on a large fiscal pandemic relief package also lifted the mood.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that senators will vote Tuesday on a first step toward eventually approving President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus recovery package on a fasttrack with or without Republican support.

The TMC leadership said Haldar was a "non-performing" MLA of the party and it was unlikely that he would have got a nomination this time and thus he resigned.

President Joe Biden is set to meet on Monday with a group of 10 Republican senators who have proposed $618 billion in coronavirus relief, about a third of the $1.9 trillion he is seeking as congressional Democrats are poised to move ahead without Republic...

Ruling party leaders lauded the budged for its focus on a number of measures, including capital expenditure, tax exemption for senior citizens, and incentives for start-ups among others.

Sasikala was admitted to the Victoria Hospital after she tested positive for COVID-19 recently while under judicial custody. Prison authorities here had formally released her on January 27 .

As per the results available for 994 of the 3035 wards for which polls were held, Congress has so far won 398 wards and the BJP has bagged 333 wards.

Local leaders of the ruling Trinamool Congress, however, alleged that the girl did not accept the bicycle at the instigation of her father ahead of the assembly elections due in April-May.

The Republicancontrolled Wisconsin Assembly was poised Thursday to repeal Democratic Gov. Tony Evers mask mandate, a move that would jeopardize more than $49 million in federal food assistance and brush aside warnings from health experts and make Wisconsi...

While farmer unions alleged it was “fringe elements” like Sidhu who instigated protesters and turned the agitation violent, he defended his actions, saying they did not remove the national flag at the Red Fort, but only put up the 'Nishan Sahib' as a symb...