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Thursday has been declared a public holiday for 16 districts in Tamil Nadu and in Puducherry and Karaikal regions and people have been asked to stay indoors till the storm has passed.

The U.S. securities regulator on Tuesday proposed a pilot program to allow tech companies like Uber and Lyft to pay gig workers up to 15% of their annual compensation in equity rather than cash, a move it said was designed to reflect changes in the workfo...

Tesla Inc blew past $500 billion in market value on Tuesday as investors snapped up its shares in the runup to its debut in the S&P 500, extending a meteoric rally that has seen it surge over 500% this year.

British finance minister Rishi Sunak, who has already pledged over 200 billion pounds to fight the COVID19 crisis, will free up more cash on Wednesday against the backdrop of the heaviest public borrowing since World War Two.

New Zealand has had a double blow ahead of its twotest series against the West Indies, losing allrounder Colin de Grandhomme and spinner Ajaz Patel to injuries.

A period of uncertainty at cricket's world governing body ended Tuesday with Greg Barclay being elected ICC chairman after a second round of voting.

Who we are with our parents and who we are in a romantic relationship can seem like different people.

A former Cincinnati city council member has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to a federal charge resulting from corruption investigations that have left two other council members facing charges.

The Spanish government is to propose a "different" Christmas and New Year under coronavirus restrictions with just six people at parties, although it hopes the "soul and spirit" of the season will shine, El Mundo newspaper reported on Tuesday.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, the UP Government said that the state cabinet cleared the proposal to name the airport in Ayodhya as Maryada Purshottam Shriram Airport, Ayodhya.

Kenya said on Monday it was reviving investigations into 72 murders as well as allegations of forced eviction and arson during postelection violence in 20072008 after victims and their families came forward to give statements.

The PM was virtually interacting with the Chief Ministers of eight states and Union Territories worst-affected by Covid.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average clocked its fastest 10,000 point run up to cross 30,000 for the first time on Tuesday, giving the stock market a psychological boost at a time when the coronavirus pandemic has damaged the economy and left millions unempl...

As per a report in Insight UK, the House of Lords Conduct Committee has published a report on Lord Nazir Ahmed of Rotherham, concluding that for the first time ever, a peer should be expelled.

The verdict was delivered in the matter in which the apex court court directed the Centre to return within three months over four acres land in Bangalore, to the legal heirs of one BM Krishnamurthy nearly 57 years of their acquisition.

China's premier Li Keqiang said on Tuesday he expects economic activity in the country can return to a reasonable range next year, after the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on GDP growth in 2020.