Politics

Rajib Banerjee, who represented the Domjur assembly seat, met Speaker Biman Banerjee at the state Assembly and submitted his resignation letter.

Just two weeks ago, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy declared Donald Trump culpable in the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol. By Thursday, he was seeking his political support.

More money is needed to protect lawmakers from threats of violence coming from an enemy within Congress, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday, a startling acknowledgment of how tensions over safety have escalated since this month's Capitol attack by s...

“BJP and JD(S) together have a majority so there is no question of defeating the bills,” Basavaraj Horatti said, adding that he will support the anti-cattle slaughter bill “100%”.

When the former TMC stalwart was asked if he is the BJP’s face for this year’s assembly elections in West Bengal, Suvendu Adhikari asserted that he joined the saffron party “as a true patriot”. “The decision to pick a Chief Ministerial face is not taken p...

The Federal Reserve this week will likely underscore its commitment to its lowinterest rate policies, even as the economy recovers further from the devastation of the viral pandemic.

Rahul Gandhi said China continues to provoke India because PM Modi has destroyed the country’s economy.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday underlined the need to censor "obscene" content on OTT (Over the Top) platforms and said the Centre is seriously thinking in this regard. Chouhan's comments came against the backdrop of a con...

House Democrats are pushing for a quick impeachment trial for Donald Trump over the riots at the Capitol, arguing a full reckoning is necessary before the country and the Congress can move on.

With close to 50 deaths due to spurious liquor in the last nine months in Madhya Pradesh, the Shivraj government is in a spot of bother, unable to regulate the liquor policy to keep revenues intact and also check sale of illicit alcohol.

As the U.S. enters what may well be the toughest and deadliest period of the virus, President Joe Biden is putting forth a national COVID19 strategy to ramp up vaccinations and testing, reopen schools and businesses and increase the use of masks includin...

Gold prices hovered near a twoweek high on Thursday as the dollar slipped, with investors awaiting the passage of U.S. President Joe Biden's proposed $1.9 trillion dollar stimulus package.

Among the newly inducted seven ministers, five are openly expressing their dissatisfaction over the portfolios allocated to them.

The U.S. Senate Finance Committee scheduled a meeting for Friday to consider the nomination of Janet Yellen for Treasury Secretary, raising the possibility that she could be confirmed by the full Senate later that day, congressional sources said.

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Avril Haines as director of national intelligence, giving President Joe Biden the first member of his Cabinet and placing the first woman in charge of the nearly twodecade old agency.

In one of his first official acts, President Joe Biden planned Wednesday to return the United States to the worldwide fight to slow global warming and to launch a series of climatefriendly efforts that could transform how Americans drive and get their pow...