Politics

A good way to hear what weve missed this year is to listen to Sam Cookes landmark live album, Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963. On a warm January night in downtown Miami, Cooke was well into his torrid set when, in the middle of Bring it on Home to Me...

The S&P 500 was essentially unchanged on Tuesday as worries over a new variant of COVID19 and downbeat economic data dampened enthusiasm over the passage of a longawaited pandemic relief bill in Washington.

Oil prices dropped almost 2% on Tuesday to below $50 a barrel, adding to losses from the previous session, as a new coronavirus strain in the United Kingdom revived concerns over demand recovery.

Gold prices fell on Tuesday, as support from the U.S. Congress passing a longawaited near $900 billion coronavirus aid was countered by a stronger dollar, while some profittaking also weighed on sentiment.

The $900 billion economic relief package that emerged from Congress over the weekend will deliver vital aid to millions of households and businesses that have been struggling for months to survive. Yet with the economy still in the grip of a pandemic that...

Election strategist Prashant Kishor said the BJP would fail to cross double digits in the polls, and if it did, he would leave the social networking site.

Republican and Democratic leaders in the U.S. Congress on Sunday said they were close to finalizing a $900 billion package to provide the first new aid in months to an economy hammered by the pandemic, but it remained unclear when they would vote to seal...

The Kerala police registered an FIR under section 153 of the IPC (for allegedly promoting religious hatred) based on the complaint filed by the municipal secretary, who is a government official.

Army Sergeant Major Das'Chara Champ couldn't have known that the answer to her question about racial discrimination survey data was sitting in an office somewhere in the vast Defense Department bureaucracy.

Six farmer leaders in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal were asked to submit personal bonds of Rs 50 lakh each for allegedly trying to “instigate” local farmers.

Stocks scaled record heights, the dollar plumbed twoyear lows and oil prices hit their strongest since March on Thursday, as monetary support and the hope of fiscal stimulus in the United States put traders in a festive mood.

The war-of-words prompted criticism from UP’s basic education minister Satish Dwivedi over the state of government schools, while Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia sought for an open debate on education with the UP’s top political leaders.

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The S&P 500 ticked up to the edge of its record Wednesday after the Federal Reserve pledged to keep buying bonds until the economy makes substantial progress from its virus-wracked state.

The BJP is ahead in 23 grama panchayats and two municipalities, including Pandalam, which was the centre of protests against the entry of women of the banned age group into the Sabarimala Ayyappa shrine.

The decision was taken at the first meeting of the cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar since the allocation of portfolios last month.