Politics

A recent rise in U.S. bond yields and market inflation expectations have bolstered Federal Reserve officials' hopes the central bank's new monetary policy approach is taking hold and could be further buoyed if a Democraticled Congress rolls out more spend...

Presidentelect Joe Biden will nominate Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo as his Commerce Department secretary and former union official and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as Labor secretary, his transition team said late on Thursday.

The number of Americans filing firsttime claims for jobless benefits unexpectedly dipped last week while staying extremely high, with the labor market recovery appearing to stall as a raging COVID19 pandemic threatens to overwhelm the country.

The insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was both stunning and predictable, the result of a Republican Party that has repeatedly enabled President Donald Trump's destructive behavior.

Bonds nursed losses and Asian stock markets rose on Thursday in anticipation of a big borrowing and big spending Democrat administration driving growth, following runoff elections that gave the party control of both houses of U.S. Congress.

Georgias Senate runoff elections were a clash of two closely matched coalitions, with Democrat Raphael Warnock edging out his rival in the onetime Republican stronghold.

As part of the campaign, which translates to ‘a handful of rice’, BJP workers will visit every farmer household across 48,000 villages in the state to collecting rice.

Futures tied to the techheavy Nasdaq 100 index tumbled nearly 1.5% on Wednesday as the likelihood of Democrats gaining control of the Senate sparked fears of increased regulatory scrutiny of technology megacaps.

The Federal Reserve's decision in December to leave its monthly bond purchases unchanged dismayed analysts and investors who thought the central bank should have expanded the program to better support the economy through the coronavirus pandemic.

President Donald Trump's supporters have descended on the nations capital to cheer his baseless claims of election fraud ahead of a congressional vote to affirm Joe Biden's election victory.

President Donald Trump will personally address a gathering of his supporters in Washington Wednesday as he seeks to rally populist support for his lastditch efforts to overturn his loss to Presidentelect Joe Biden.

Naidu slammed the state government for delay in action over desecration of Lord Ram's idol at Ramateertham temple in Vizianagaram.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Saturday that Mexico had lost 277,000 jobs in the month of December, which he attributed to subcontractors cutting employees from the books to avoid paying benefits and yearend bonuses.

Claiming that the people of the state are now taking to the streets against the Mamata Banerjee government, he said, "Didi has worked only for the benefit of her own people, ignoring the masses who elected her to power for two terms."

President Donald Trump's fellow Republicans in the U.S. Senate are expected to take steps toward overriding his veto of a major defense bill in a rare New Year's Day session on Friday and hand him his first major rebuke 20 days before he leaves office.

Various important issues will be taken up in the meeting including the coming panchayat elections, vice president of the state unit and member of Legislative Council Vijay Bahadur Pathak said on Friday.