Politics

Wall Street's main indexes were set to open at record highs on Thursday as investors counted on more pandemic relief and speedy vaccine rollouts under the Biden administration to support the economy after data showed a weakening labor market recovery.

President Joe Biden launched initiatives on Thursday to rein in the raging COVID19 pandemic, tackling his top priority on his first full day in the White House as he tries to turn the page on Donald Trump's tumultuous leadership.

President Joe Bidens nominee for secretary of transportation, Pete Buttigieg, is pledging to carry out the administrations ambitious agenda to rebuild the nations infrastructure, calling it a generational opportunity to create new jobs, fight economic ine...

As the U.S. enters what may well be the toughest and deadliest period of the virus, President Joe Biden is putting forth a national COVID19 strategy to ramp up vaccinations and testing, reopen schools and businesses and increase the use of masks includin...

The CEC cited a Union Home Ministry notification of August 29, 2019 that clarified that the exclusion of a person's name from the NRC does not amount to his or her declaration as a foreigner.

It is a looming strife again that threatens to break the fragile peace of Nandigram as assembly elections approach.

U.S. President Donald Trump granted clemency to former White House aide Steve Bannon as part of a wave of pardons and commutations issued in his final hours in office, but did not pardon himself, members of his family or lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

Pat Cowan, a Republican official in west Texas, would rather blow up her party than see it controlled by “weak” Republicans who increasingly are distancing themselves from President Donald Trump since the U.S. Capitol riots he is accused of inciting.

The Senate Finance Committee has begun its confirmation hearing for Treasury Secretarynominee Janet Yellen with Democrats and Republicans squaring off immediately over how much more support the economy, hammered during the pandemic, requires.

Avril Haines, a former White House and CIA official whom Presidentelect Joe Biden chose for the top U.S. intelligence job, will tell Congress on Tuesday that she will continue tough U.S. scrutiny of China and press spy agencies to help resolve the COVID19...

A formal announcement in this regard would be made on Thursday afternoon if there is no withdrawal of nomination.

Rahul Gandhi has attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue of national security after reports that China has built a village in Arunachal Pradesh.

Asian share markets edged ahead on Tuesday as investors wagered China's economic strength would help underpin growth in the region, even as pandemic lockdowns threatened to lengthen the road to recovery in the West.

Presidentelect Joe Biden's decision to immediately ask Congress to offer legal status to an estimated 11 million people in the country has surprised advocates given how the issue has long divided Democrats and Republicans, even within their own parties.

Presidentelect Joe Biden is filling out his State Department team with a group of former career diplomats and veterans of the Obama administration, signaling his desire to return to a more traditional foreign policy after four years of uncertainty and unp...

Akhilesh Yadav also asked the government to state how much time the vaccine would take to reach the masses and if it will be free for all.