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The Congress on Friday sounded the poll bugle in Assam by announcing waiver of farm debts and microfinance loans for women, implementation of minimum income guarantee scheme 'Nyay', free electricity up to 120 units for the poor and middle class and ensure...

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President Donald Trump's push for $2,000 COVID19 relief checks was all but dead Wednesday as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed an alternative approach of loading up the bill with other White House priorities that appeared destined to fail.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday urged the Senate to override President Donald Trump's veto of a $740 billion defense policy bill, saying the funding plan for the U.S. military could not be allowed to fail.

Rajinikanth said 'Rajini Makkal Mandram' will continue to work with people and he requested members, public as well as his fans to forgive him.

This is the third summons issued to Varsha Raut after she skipped the earlier two on health grounds. Earlier today, the Rajya Sabha MP targeted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and accused it of using central agencies against families of political opponen...

Addressing party workers in a video message, Sonia Gandhi said the country is going through difficult times as prevailing before independence.

Wall Street's main indexes were set to open near record levels on Monday as President Donald Trump's signing of a longawaited $2.3 trillion pandemic aid bill bolstered bets on an economic recovery, helping financial and energy stocks.

In an interview with CNN-News18, Professor Amitabh Mattoo, one of India's foremost thinkers and writers on international relations, who till June 2018 was adviser to the J&K chief minister, shed light on the implications of the election outcome, the neces...

Hanuman Beniwal-led Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP) is the second constituent to quit the National Democratic Alliance over the farm laws after the Shiromani Akali Dal.

Stocks rallied and the British pound gained on Thursday as Britain and the European Union closed in on a freetrade deal and investors wagered on a global economic recovery.

The United States on Wednesday faced the prospect of a yearend government shutdown during a raging pandemic after outgoing President Donald Trump threatened not to sign a $2.3 trillion package that includes government funding and coronavirus aid.

For Presidentelect Joe Biden, Washingtons yearend burst of dealmaking brought renewed hope for a productive, successful first 100 days in office.

The Trump administration overhauled the country's widely criticized, 29-year-old framework to eliminate toxic lead from drinking water on Tuesday, but critics charge that the new rule gives utilities far more time than before to finally replace old, lead-...

The S&P 500 lost ground at the end of a whipsaw session on Tuesday as concerns over a new variant of the coronavirus and disappointing economic data stole the thunder from Washington's passage of a longawaited pandemic relief bill.

Oil dropped towards $50 a barrel on Tuesday, adding to losses from the previous session, as a mutant variant of the coronavirus in Britain revived concerns over demand recovery.