Politics

The Federal Reserve will reduce the minimum loan level in a small business lending program and waive some fees to try to boost participation in a program that has so far provided little assistance to struggling companies.

U,S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is wrapping up an antiChina tour of Asia in Vietnam as the fierce American presidential election race enters its final stretch.

U.S. stocks tumbled on Wednesday, with the Dow closing at lows last seen in late July, as coronavirus cases soared globally and investors worried about the possibility of a contested U.S. presidential election next week.

Adam Weeks was never going to win Minnesotas 2nd District seat in Congress, but the deceased Legal Marijuana Now Party candidate has had an outsized effect on the race.

Bypolls to 28 state Assembly seats will be held on November 3 and the counting of votes will take place on November 10.

With a nearly 38-40 per cent vote share, the Kurmis are a strong electoral base in Jangalmahal that comprises Jhargram, Purulia, West Midnapore and Bankura. Since 1977, they had blessed the CPI(M), but in 2011 they went in favour of the TMC. And in last y...

The BJP government has also done away with the historic Big Land Estate Abolition Act, 1950 — under which the Sheikh Abdullah-led government, had distributed and shared land with the poor local tenants. Under the Act, huge landmasses were taken away to en...

An independent candidate backed by the Samajwadi Party filed his nomination papers on Tuesday. With 11 candidates in the fray for 10 seats, the BSP with just 18 MLAs in the assembly will have to seek extra votes to ensure the victory of its candidate.

The S&P 500 and Dow fell on Tuesday, dragged down by a string of earnings disappointments and doubts about a coronavirus stimulus package before Election Day, although Nasdaq rose ahead of results from megacap technology companies.

Minutes before Professor Liu Wenli was set to speak in a webinar on the development of sex education in China, she learned that the country's top legislative body had passed an amendment making sex education mandatory starting next year. 

The rape of a minor Dalit in Punjab triggered a political slugfest on Saturday, with the BJP accusing the Congress of 'selective outrage' by not visiting the victim's family and the grand old party hitting back by calling the ruling dispensation insensiti...

Delhi Congress leaders and workers on Saturday staged a protest at the Jantar Mantar against spiralling prices of onion and other essential commodities in the city. Delhi Congress president Anil Chaudhary, who was leading the protest, alleged that the A...

Election to the Rajya Sabha seat held by Raj Babbar is scheduled to take place on November 9. Raj Babbar’s term concludes on November 25.

Former Maharashtra minister and senior Congress leader Vinayakdada Patil died at a private hospital in Nashik following a brief illness, his family sources said. He breathed his last late on Friday night.

Addressing a meeting of AICC general secretaries and state-incharges which she presided over, Gandhi also alleged that the country was being ruled by a government which was "systematically" handing over the rights of citizens to a handful of crony capital...

The comment came a day after Amit Shah said it was a tough situation for the NDA with Chirag commenting on Nitish Kumar but still it was the LJP leader who broke the alliance.