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Besides organising meetings with farmers, the party plans to launch a mass-contact programme. BJP leaders, including chief minister Shivraj Chouhan, will address farmers separately in different divisions of the state.

The U.S. Congress appeared poised to vote on Sunday on a $900 billion coronavirus aid package after senators struck a latenight compromise to clear one of the final hurdles, a dispute over Federal Reserve pandemic lending authorities.

The Trump administration has notified Congress that it intends to shutter the last two remaining U.S. consulates in Russia.

Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the party stood united and together as a family and there are no dissensions pending after the announcement of elections to the party chief's post.

U.S. retail sales fell more than expected in November, likely weighed down by raging new COVID19 infections and decreasing household income, adding to growing signs of a slowdown in the economy's recovery from the pandemic recession.

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday will offer its first glimpse of how a coronavirus vaccine has changed the U.S. economic outlook, and whether businesses, workers and families need more help from the central bank until inoculations and immunity are widespr...

Adhikari has been at loggerheads with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and has not been attending state cabinet meetings.

Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Monday, shrugging off a weak close last week on Wall Street as hopes for a new round of aid for American workers and businesses faded.

President Donald Trump on Sunday tweeted that he intends to veto a wideranging defense policy bill, raising new but unspecified concerns about China as a reason to reject a traditionally bipartisan measure with a nearly 60year track record of being signed...

The opposition party also cited a media report to claim that 11 farmers have died in the last 17 days while protesting the new agri laws, with former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi asking how many more sacrifices will the farmers have to make to get the legi...

The last time Alejandro Mayorkas faced Senate confirmation, not a single Republican voted for him because there was an open investigation into his management of the U.S. immigration agency under President Barack Obama.

Former MP and Raju Shetti said that anti-national forces will not hesitate to exploit any opportunity they get and the country will suffer a huge toll if the union government does not handle the situation delicately.

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In 2019, Rakesh Singh was arrested from Kolkata Airport for threatening policemen of Watgunge police station and his name also came out during the vandalism of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's bust in Kolkata last year.

A congressional monitor of federal pandemic aid is raising the possibility of a link between President Donald Trump's soninlaw, Jared Kushner, and a $700 million relief loan to a struggling trucking company.

U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden tapped Susan Rice, a former national security adviser with significant foreign policy expertise, for a domestic policy brief on Thursday, putting an emphasis on managerial experience in his new administration.