Politics

Here are the highlights from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reply in the Rajya Sabha on the discussion on motion of thanks to President Ram Nath Kovind's address.

For nearly 17 months, the Trump administration tried to deport the mother and daughter from El Salvador. The Biden administration may finish the job.

PM Narendra Modi quoted eminent Hindi poet Maithili Sharan Gupt to stress that India must grab the opportunities to play a larger role at the global stage.

George Shultz, the U.S. secretary of state who survived bitter infighting in President Ronald Reagan's administration to help forge a new era in AmericanSoviet relations and bring on the end of the Cold War, died on Saturday at age 100, the Californiabase...

The allocation of Rs 6,636 crore to poll-bound West Bengal is the highest-ever funds earmarked for the state in the history of Indian Railways, minister Piyush Goyal had said soon after the Union Budget was announced, blaming successive state governments...

U.S. employment growth rebounded less than expected in January and job losses the prior month were deeper than initially thought, strengthening the argument for additional relief money from the government to aid the recovery from the COVID19 pandemic.

BJP's Swapan Dasgupta, a nominated Rajya Sabha member, said the delegation also conveyed its apprehensions about the possible misuse of the provision that allows people with disability and voters above 80 years of age to cast their votes by postal ballots...

A fiercely divided House has tossed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene off both her committees, an unprecedented punishment that Democrats said shed earned by spreading hateful and violent conspiracy theories.

The Biden administration is preparing to notify Congress and others that it will dramatically increase U.S. admissions of refugees.

Republicans in the U.S. Congress on Wednesday face questions about whether to discipline a pair of strikingly different Representatives Liz Cheney and Marjorie Taylor Greene, decisions that will send a strong signal about the party's future.

Slain U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick lay in honor in the building he died defending, allowing colleagues and the lawmakers he protected to pay their respects and to remember the violent attack on Congress that took his life.

Vice President Kamala Harris has spent her first two weeks in office working with the president on coronavirus relief, consulting with the head of the World Health Organization and talking with the prime minister of Canada.

A singular crisis has led to extraordinary relief options for borrowers. Interest and payments have been paused on federal student loans. Homeowners can request nearly a year of mortgage forbearance. Credit card issuers and other lenders dramatically expa...

Having sidestepped the worst of the coronavirus pandemic so far, Vietnam aims to rev up its economy over the next five years, trusting on its customtooled mix of free trade deals, privatisation and tight COVID19 curbs.

Vietnam's ruling Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong, 76, has been reelected for a rare third fiveyear term, state media reported on Sunday, cementing his position as one of the country's longestserving leaders for decades.

Robinhood Markets Inc's user agreement is likely to protect the brokerage app from a barrage of lawsuits filed by customers after it blocked a frenzied trading rally in companies such as GameStop Corp that was fueled on social media forums.