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The U.S. Treasury will press countries to keep up coronavirus stimulus during International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings next week and urge China to fully participate in debt relief for poor countries, a senior Treasury official said.

The BJP has been given 427 minutes of broadcast time, while the JDU has been allocated 323 minutes. The RJD has been given 343 minutes and the Congress 182 minutes.

Detained Australian writer Yang Hengjun will face trial in Beijing on an espionage charge with a judge expected to be appointed in the next fortnight, friends said on Saturday.

It’s heartbreaking to see talented actors like Vikrant Massey and Yami Gautam weighed down by an average script.

Coronavirus LIVE Updates: The World Health Organization has announced a new daily record high in Covid-19 cases confirmed worldwide, with more than 350,000 infections reported to the UN health agency on Friday.

President Donald Trumps proclamation Friday commemorating Columbus Day veered from a typical White House holiday announcement, with stark warnings of radical activists seeking to tarnish the explorers legacy.

Anti-nuclear activist Sister Ardeth Platte, a Dominican nun who spent time in jail for her peaceful protests, died in her sleep on Sept. 30. She was 84.

Strengthening efforts to counter the Trump administration's baseless narrative that mail balloting is rife with fraud, elections officials in Denver, Seattle and a growing number of cities are giving voters live video of their ballot processing in a symbo...

Kolkata Police on Friday asked Durga Puja organisers in the city to rigorously follow all COVID-19 regulations and ensure that revellers mandatorily wear masks while entering the marquees during the five-day festival which will begin on October 23. City...

Six former Hawaii residents who now live in Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands want to be able to vote by absentee ballot for president.

The BJP, whose protest march to the state secretariat Nabanna on Thursday witnessed clashes with police, accused the Trinamool Congress government of hurting the sentiments of Sikhs.

Himachal Pradesh reported seven more COVID-19 fatalities on Friday, taking the death toll in the state to 241, while 199 new cases pushed the infection count to 16,978. Two fatalities were reported from Shimla and one each from Lahaul-Spiti, Kinnaur, B...

Business events and economic reports scheduled for the coming week.

A week ago, President Donald Trump was diagnosed with the coronavirus, spent several days at Walter Reed Medical Center for treatment and evaluation, and has since returned to the White House.

In a purported statement being circulated on social media since Thursday, Maoists said police was spreading an informer network in Gangaloor and other areas of Bijapur and poor tribals were troubled due to such activities.

Haryana recorded 1,250 fresh COVID-19 cases taking the infection tally to 1,39,932 on Friday, while 14 more coronavirus fatalities pushed the state's death toll to 1,562, the Health department said. Of the latest coronavirus fatalities, three deaths wer...