Politics

Allies of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday won a majority of seats in parliament after scant participation in an election that the opposition boycotted, saying it was a farce meant to consolidate a dictatorship.

Efforts by veteran party leaders like Saugata Roy and Sudip Bandopadhyay for a reconciliation have failed to placate Adhikari, who is yet to disclose his future political path.

On Thursday, Amarinder Singh had made an appeal to the Union home minister and the protesting farmers to find an early resolution to the impasse over the new farm laws, saying the agitation was affecting Punjab's economy and the nation's security.

Brent crude oil futures rose more than 1% on Friday, remaining just under $50 a barrel, as expectations of a U.S. economic stimulus package and the possibility of a vaccine for the coronavirus overrode rising supply and increased COVID19 deaths.

Asian shares scaled a record high on Friday on growing prospects of a large U.S. economic stimulus package, while hopes that coronavirus vaccine rollouts will boost the global economy underpinned investor sentiment.

Presidentelect Joe Biden is adjusting the scope of his agenda to meet the challenges of governing with a narrowly divided Congress and the complications of legislating during a raging pandemic.

Americans who struggled through 2020 could face more hardship in the year ahead as pandemic related payments and protections come to an end.

Republicans and Democrats in Congress remained unable to reach agreement on fresh relief for a pandemichit U.S. economy on Wednesday, with top Republicans supporting what the Senate's top Democrats dismissed as an "inadequate, partisan proposal."

U.S. private payrolls increased less than expected in November, likely hampered by soaring new COVID19 infections and business restrictions, adding to signs of slowing economic activity as a turbulent year winds down.

The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to pass legislation this week that could prevent some Chinese companies from listing their shares on U.S. exchanges unless they adhere to U.S. auditing standards, congressional aides said.

The U.S. Congress should include a fresh wave of coronavirus stimulus in a mustpass $1.4 trillion spending bill aimed at heading off a government shutdown in the midst of a pandemic, top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday.

In a veiled swing at President-elect Joe Biden's education plans, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday blasted the push for free college as a socialist takeover of higher education that could damage the nation's economy.

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday grilled a lawyer for President Donald Trump's administration over its plan to exclude illegal immigrants from the population totals used to allocate congressional districts to states, a facet of Trump's hardline immig...

Sharma, who is a party spokesperson and part of the group of 23 Congress leaders who wrote to party chief Sonia Gandhi seeking large scale changes in the organisation, said the prime minister's visit was a recognition of Indian scientists and their work t...

The block committees were dissolved by then Delhi Congress president Sheila Dikshit, after the Lok Sabha debacle of the party in 2019.

The state had faced the double disaster of COVID-19 and super cyclone Amphan, in which losses amounted to Rs 1.02 lakh crore, Shashi Panja.