Politics

Hiring has weakened for six straight months. Nearly 10 million jobs remain lost since the coronavirus struck. And this week, the Congressional Budget Office forecast that employment won't regain its prepandemic level until 2024.

Leader of the Opposition Tejashwi Yadav shared a screenshot of the order on his official Twitter handle and attacked Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

House Democrats are mounting an effort to formally rebuke Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a newly elected Georgia Republican with a history of making racist remarks, embracing conspiracy theories and endorsing violence directed at Democrats.

Vietnam has shut schools in 22 provinces ahead of the Lunar New Year "Tet" holiday and ended a ruling Communist Party congress early on Monday following the detection of a new cluster of coronavirus cases in northern areas last week.

The Delhi Congress on Sunday passed three resolutions, including requesting Rahul Gandhi to take over as national president of the party. The other two resolutions passed during a meeting of party senior leaders sought the resignation of Delhi Chief Min...

Ten moderate Republican U.S. senators urged Democratic President Joe Biden on Sunday to significantly downsize his $1.9 trillion COVID19 relief package to win bipartisan support as Democrats in Congress prepared to push ahead with his plan this week.

A group of Senate Republicans called on President Joe Biden to meet them at the negotiating table as the newly elected president signaled he could move to pass a new $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid package with all Democratic votes.

At the all-party meeting, Naidu appealed to leaders to ensure effective functioning of the House during the ongoing important Budget session. The vice president further said that the Upper House will now sit on February 13, instead of 15 Naidu as, he said...

Ever since the former TMC leader joined the BJP in December, he has strategically refrained from offending a majority of Left Front and Congress leaders and this hasn't gone unnoticed among political experts, who feel that he is trying hard to retain the...

The Federal Reserve this week will likely underscore its commitment to its lowinterest rate policies, even as the economy recovers further from the devastation of the viral pandemic.

Cases against six politicians, including former chief minister Oommen Chandy, were registered over the past several years and probed by the crime branch of the police based on a complaint by a woman accused in the multi-crore solar panel scam during the p...

Forest Minister Rajib Banerjee made the announcement on Friday.

Addressing a crucial meeting of the Congress Working Committee, she alleged that it was now abundantly clear that the three farm laws were prepared in haste and Parliament was consciously denied an opportunity to examine in any meaningful detail their imp...

After the nomination papers of independent candidate Mahesh Chandra Sharma were rejected during the scrutiny on Tuesday, the decks had cleared for all candidates to get elected to the legislative council.

A day after being sworn in, President Joe Biden is rolling out a national strategy to fight COVID-19, reopen the nation's schools and restart the U.S. economy. His plan calls for an expansion of coronavirus testing, accelerated vaccine distribution and ne...

World stocks racked up record highs on Thursday and the dollar fell, as investors bet major stimulus from new U.S. President Joe Biden and unswerving global central bank support would cushion the coronavirus's economic damage.