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The stage in Utah has been set with all the trappings of a modern political debate: Red, white and blue carpets, a backdrop of the Declaration of Independence and plexiglass.

JMM spokesman Supriyo Bhattacharya on Wednesday said the prison administration and authorities at RIMS hospital decide where jailed RJD chief Lalu Prasad would be lodged, and not the government, amid taunts by the BJP, which said the ruling party got no...

In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, the harried health officials of Peru faced a quandary. They knew molecular tests for COVID19 were the best option to detect the virus yet they didnt have the labs, the supplies, or the technicians to make th...

Rajasthan recorded 16 more fatalities due to the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, taking the COVID-19 death toll in the state to 1,590, according to a health department bulletin. The state also reported 2,151 new cases and the total number of people infe...

For government servants below the level of Under Secretary, at least 50 per cent attendance is to be ensured, it said.

The BJP on Wednesday released a list of two candidates for the first phase of the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said his life's purpose is to bring people of all faiths together in India. He made the remark on Twitter while tagging a media report in which Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz is quoted as saying that...

Farmers across Poland slowed down traffic on main roads with their tractors Wednesday and left wheelbarrows of manure at lawmakers offices to protest a new law that bans fur farms and religious slaughter for export, saying it will put them out of business...

Italy was expected to order a nationwide outdoor mask mandate Wednesday with fines of up to 1,000 euros ($1,163) for violators, as the European country where COVID19 first hit scrambles to keep rebounding infections from spiralling out of control.

Three more people, including a retired Army man, wanted in the Rs 3,500-crore 'Bike Bot' scam case have been arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police, officials said on Wednesday. They have been identified as Karanpal Singh, who retired from the Army in 200...

A federal appeals court has rejected a lawsuit that aimed to make mailin ballots available to all Indiana voters for this falls election because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Naga negotiators, fearing for their lives and fratricidal bloodshed, aborted talks in 1966 and returned to the state. Eventually, it was pushed into an unprecedented inter-tribal fratricidal bloodshed.

Human rights NGOs have urged apex child rights body NCPCR to immediately withdraw its direction to send back children living in child care institutions from eight states to their families, saying it "violates" the objectives of the Juvenile Justice Act....

Iran's president warned on Wednesday that fighting between Azeri and ethnic Armenian forces in the South Caucasus could spark a regional war and stepped up calls for a ceasefire.

The 2020 Hero I-League Qualifiers, which will mark the resumption of sporting events in the country after a seven-month coronavirus-forced hiatus, will be telecast live on 1 Sports. The Qualifiers have already generated much interest among football fan...

While the Bombay High Court accepted bail plea of Rhea Chakraborty on Wednesday with restrictions, netizens demanded boycott of 'Mirzapur 2'.