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Presidentelect Joe Biden will talk with workers and business owners on Wednesday about how the coronavirus has affected them as he prepares to confront his highest priority on taking office: the resurgent pandemic in the United States.

The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to pass legislation this week that could prevent some Chinese companies from listing their shares on U.S. exchanges unless they adhere to U.S. auditing standards, congressional aides said on Tuesday.

Asian shares shed early gains from a strong Wall Street lead on Wednesday, as some investors booked profits on a stellar run to record highs, but hope for additional U.S. economic stimulus and a coronavirus vaccine kept market sentiment well supported.

Asian markets were set to climb on Wednesday after Wall Street indexes closed at record highs as investors grow increasingly hopeful about a vaccine to combat rising COVID19 cases and an economic recovery.

Presidentelect Joe Biden's promise to end U.S. fossil fuel subsidies worth billions of dollars a year for drillers and miners could be hard to keep due to resistance from lawmakers in a narrowly divided Congress, including from within his own party.

Farmers are protesting at Delhi's borders for six days against the new farm laws.

The polling for 11 seats from the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council's Block Graduate and Block Teacher Area began on Tuesday.

Twentynine arms control and human rights organizations have signed a letter opposing the sale of $23 billion worth of missiles, fighter jets and drones to the United Arab Emirates and asking the U.S. Congress to block the deal.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says that the pace of improvement in the economy has moderated in recent months with future prospects remaining extraordinarily uncertain.

Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared reluctant to block a vaguely defined plan by President Donald Trump's administration to exclude immigrants living in the United States illegally from the population totals used to allocate congre...

Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared reluctant to issue a ruling immediately blocking a plan by President Donald Trump's administration to exclude immigrants living in the United States illegally from the population totals used to a...

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World shares paused on Monday to assess a recordbreaking month as the prospect of a vaccinedriven economic recovery next year and yet more free money from central banks eclipsed immediate concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.

As part of ‘Duare Sarkar’, the government schemes will be delivered to the people at their doorsteps through camps organised at the Gram Panchayat and Municipality Ward level.

World shares paused to assess a recordbusting month on Monday as the prospect of a vaccinedriven economic recovery next year and yet more free money from central banks eclipsed concerns about the coronavirus pandemic in the nearterm.

Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for reiterating that the new agrilaws are beneficial for farmers, the Congress on Sunday said the insistence in support of the legislations shows that the government is "drunk with power" and is rigid even in re...