New York: The Republican Party crossed the 118-mark in the House of Representatives as late results trickled in, scoring an electoral trifecta controlling both chambers of Congress and the White House. While the counting of votes in the November 5 election continues and the official...
Washington: House Speaker Mike Johnson Wednesday won Republican nomination to remain in the position, after US President-elect Donald Trump appeared to have backed him during a meeting with House Republicans. Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, was elected House Speaker in a full chamber vote of 220-209,...
New Delhi: Compassionate appointment is not a vested right for getting a government job as it is not a condition of service of an employee who dies in harness, the Supreme Court held Wednesday while declining the plea of a man whose police constable father...
Mumbai: Amid Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray’s criticism over his helicopter checking twice by the Election Commission, the poll panel staff Wednesday checked the choppers of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. Both took to the X to upload...
Deoghar/Godda (Jharkhand): In an apparent dig at Rahul Gandhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday accused the Congress 'shehzada' of conspiring to scrap reservations for people belonging to SC, ST and OBC communities in an attempt to "weaken" them. Modi, who addressed two BJP poll rallies...
New Delhi: Delhi recorded the country's worst air quality Wednesday as it turned 'severe' for the first time this season, with the AQI soaring to 418. Bihar's Hajipur, with an Air Quality Index (AQI) of 417, had the the second-worst reading in the country, Central...
Mumbai: Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty tumbled more than 1 per cent Wednesday amid retail inflation soaring to a 14-month high of 6.21 per cent in October and unabated foreign fund outflows. Muted quarterly earnings, selling in frontline stocks -- HDFC Bank, Reliance Industries --...
New Delhi: India's fossil fuel emissions are projected to rise by 4.6 per cent in 2024, while China could see a marginal rise of 0.2 per cent, according to new research by a group of international scientists. As the UN climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan,...
New York: US President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he is appointing two maverick entrepreneurs -- Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency (DoGE) that will be charged with drastically changing government while cutting waste. Announcing the appointments on...
New Delhi: Voting is underway in the bye-elections for 31 Assembly seats across 10 states, as well as the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency in Kerala, from where Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is making her electoral debut. Interestingly, though these bypolls will not have...
The infidelity of the Nvidia co-founder, Jensen Huang, the AI tech giant company’s CEO, who recently admitted he had been...
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The quality of air that people across cities in India have been breathing on Deepabali nights for the past few...
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By Aakar Patel Attacks on Bengali Christians and their churches have begun following the BJP's victory in the state. Last...
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By Dilip Cherian The Centre appears keen to give young IPS officers early exposure to the workings and priorities of...
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