The Congress on Thursday announced new chiefs for Punjab and Uttarakhand units of the party and appointed Avinash Pande incharge of party affairs in Rajasthan where assembly election is due for next year. Party’s Communications Department incharge Randeep Singh Surjewala told reporters that the changes are part of an organisational revamp being gradually effected by […]
Key Indian equity market indices opened in the red on Friday following global cues. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) was trading 100.46 points or 0.33 per cent lower during the early session. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was also trading 24.90 points or 0.27 per cent lower at 9,335 points. […]
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order that will allow churches and other religious organisations to become more active politically, the media reported. The order, which Trump inked during a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday, directs the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) not to take “adverse action” against churches and other […]
US’ Delta Air Lines has issued an apology for kicking a family with two young children off a flight after the customers had already boarded, the media reported. The incident occurred on April 23 on Delta flight 2222 from Hawaii to Los Angeles, but footage of the ordeal was posted on YouTube on Wednesday by […]
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will soon launch a political organisation aimed at funding “resistance” groups that will stand up to President Donald Trump, the media reported. Clinton is currently working with former aides and donors to build the organisation — Onward Together, an homage to her campaign slogan — that will look […]
The Lok Sabha membership of Jyoti Dhurve, BJP MP from Betul in Madhya Pradesh, is under threat as a high-level inquiry committee has found the Scheduled Tribe certificate issued to her fake and cancelled it on Wednesday. Betul is a reserved parliamentary constituency for Scheduled Tribes. According to informed sources, the committee formed by the […]
Former US President Barack Obama with his wife Michelle returned to Chicago to unveiled a 3-D model of his presidential center, media reports said. Obama and his wife Michelle Obama on Wednesday, made their first public appearance on plans for the presidential library at the South Shore Cultural Center of south Chicago. Hundreds of people […]
The US House of Representatives will vote on Thursday on a Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the media reported. The long-awaited announcement on Wednesday night has put to an end to a flurry of speculation about whether the Republican health care bill would come up on the […]
Heavy damage to property, crops especially to the mango harvest has been reported from across Uttar Pradesh as a massive dust storm hit most parts of the state late on Wednesday night, officials said on Thursday. More than 25 per cent of the mango harvest, specially in the Malihabad mango belt has been damaged with […]
The US House of Representatives approved a $1.1 trillion spending bill for the rest of the 2017 fiscal year, and the measure will now receive the green light from the Senate, thus avoiding the partial shutdown of the federal government. A stopgap spending measure was due to expire on Friday, Efe news reported. Approved in […]