Politics

U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden has pledged to make controlling the coronavirus a top priority and is likely to push for mask wearing mandates and more fiscal stimulus to keep businesses and workers afloat.

The appointments come more than a month after BJP president J P Nadda announced a new team of party national office bearers.

Meet Chhatradhar Mahato, who is not only capable of giving the TMC an edge in the upcoming state polls, but is also part of Mamata’s strategic move to regain lost ground in tribal turf.

Stocks in Asia fell on Friday, following on from selloffs in the United States and Europe as investors feared the economic impact of an accelerating rise in coronavirus infections.

Peruvian interim President Manuel Merino called for calm as he swore in his new cabinet on Thursday amid protests that have escalated around the country since the abrupt ouster of former leader Martin Vizcarra.

The S&P 500 and the Dow slipped on Thursday as U.S. coronavirus infections surged and investors weighed the timeline of the mass rollout of an effective vaccine.

When Perus legislature booted President Martn Vizcarra from office this week, they may have done more than just oust a popular leader they likely put the countrys best chance at making a dent on endemic corruption on hold.

With the three Left parties bagging 13 seats and leading in three others in Bihar, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury warned naysayers against writing them off, saying they would have notched up higher numbers in the elections had they been given mo...

Nadda also congratulated chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Karanataka and Manipur and presidents of the BJP's respective state units.

Follow live updates of Karjan Assembly seat bypolls in Gujarat . Know who is leading, who is trailing, who won, who lost and who will be the new Karjan MLA.

In other words only if RJD got between 80-90 seats of the 144 it was contesting, could it hope to form the government in alliance with Left (contesting on 29 seats) and Congress (contesting on 70 seats) which then together could have got Tejashwi past the...

Government statistics bear out the gargantuan challenges on the economic and law-and-order fronts that stood before Nitish when he took the reins of the state after the "jungle raj" years of Lalu and Rabri, and the turnaround he brought with a series of d...

The chairwoman of House Democrats' campaign committee said Monday she won't seek the post again for the next Congress.

While Lalu-Rabri ruled the state for 15 years and Nitish Kumar took over from 2005 to 2020, Bihar's youth seems to have voted for 'badlaav' (change), rising above the caste matrix.

The Bihar politics took an interesting turn in the 1990s as the next three decades were ruled by heavyweights- RJD and JD(U), both ruling for three terms each.

Medicare's Part B monthly premium for outpatient care will go up by $3.90 next year to $148.50, officials announced late Friday afternoon.