Politics

VK Sasikala, now at large after serving a four-year term in a disproportionate assets case that convicted Jayalalithaa, is returning from Bengaluru, where was nursed after to health after contracting the Covid-19 disease.

Joe Biden, the first sitting U.S. president to openly oppose the death penalty, has discussed the possibility of instructing the Department of Justice to stop scheduling new executions, officials have told The Associated Press.

Global shares rose Friday, echoing a rally on Wall Street, as hopes grew for a gradual global economic recovery from the damage of the coronavirus pandemic.

A fiercely divided House has tossed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene off both her committees, an unprecedented punishment that Democrats said shed earned by spreading hateful and violent conspiracy theories.

During the question hour in the assembly, BJP MLA Appachu Ranjan was seen questioning his own party. Ranjan had raised a question on pollution in Cauvery river. However, he raised a concern over the answer given to the legislators.

Oil pared gains on Thursday after a stronger U.S. dollar pressured prices that earlier hit year highs due to falling U.S. inventories and the OPEC+ decision to stick to its output cuts.

Oil hit an 11month high on Wednesday, boosted by a draw in U.S. crude and gasoline stocks, which fuelled demand recovery hopes as OPEC+ has forecast that the market will be in deficit in 2021.

The decision has been taken amid rising infighting within the party's West Bengal unit, often snowballing into the open, a senior state BJP leader said. "In many cases, the district leadership is not happy with the mass inductions. It has led to infightin...

A group of 15 U.S. senators on Tuesday including Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican John Cornyn urged the White House to work with Congress to address the global semiconductor shortage that is hampering auto manufacturing.

Donald Trump endangered the lives of all members of Congress when he aimed a mob of supporters like a loaded cannon at the U.S. Capitol, House Democrats said Tuesday in making their most detailed case yet for why the former president should be convicted a...

Brazil's Congress on Monday chose lawmakers endorsed by President Jair Bolsonaro as speakers of its two chambers, giving the farright leader a base among centerright politicians with whom he had once vowed never to ally.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump's unprecedented second impeachment trial takes shape this week, as Democrats outline their case and Trump scrambles to prepare a defense amid disarray on his legal team.

The party in a statement last week had said that it will elect a new party president in June.

Mamata Banerjee recently wrote a letter to Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and agreed to implement Ayushman Bharat schemes with a condition that the funds may be routed through the state government.

Alleging that farmers from Punjab are being beaten up by police and assaulted by goons at their protest site on Delhi borders, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh called an allparty meeting on Tuesday to show unity and evolve a consensus on the way forward on...

Parliamentary affairs minister Prahlad Joshi told the opposition that the government was ready for a discussion on all issues raised by them.