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Prime Minister Narendra Modi further said that the crop growers are the backbone of our country's democracy.

Asian shares dipped on Thursday as tight liquidity conditions in China curbed buying for now, though improving corporate earnings, expectations of large U.S. stimulus and subsiding retail frenzy all supported risk sentiment.

If the Uddhav Thackeray government goes ahead with the politically significant move, it will make Maharashtra the first state to bring in such a legislation.

Pennsylvania's top election official spent the past year in the hot seat as she oversaw the vote in a swing state where the margin between presidential candidates would end up being barely 80,000 votes out of nearly 7 million cast.

Now, even the pros on Wall Street are asking if the stock market has shot too high.

The police officer killed when supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol last month trying to overturn the election results will lie in honor in the building's historic rotunda on Tuesday and Wednesday.

President Joe Biden and a group of 10 Senate Republicans have offered competing proposals to help the United States respond to the coronavirus pandemic and provide economic relief to businesses and families.

Tomar further said Pawar, a former Union agriculture minister, had himself tried to bring the same reforms earlier.

Bhattacharya said that his party will support candidates from other parties, if needed, to derail the BJP.

He's known for prowling the Capitol with his camera or friends like the rock icon Bono. He's played leading roles in fights over Supreme Court nominations, government surveillance of Americans and protecting his state's dairy farms.

Mamata Banerjee on Saturday refused to speak at an official event attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to mark the beginning of the celebrations of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's 124th birth anniversary after 'Jai Shri Ram' slogans were raised just befo...

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday proposed that there be four national capitals which function on a rotational basis.

The heads of three federallyfunded international broadcasters were abruptly fired late Friday as the Biden administration completed a housecleaning of Donald Trumpappointees at the U.S. Agency for Global Media.

President Joe Biden on Friday plans to issue a pair of executive orders that could deliver modest, but critical, support to millions of Americans hit hard by the pandemic recession.

Pope Francis told President Joe Biden on Wednesday that he was praying that God would guide his efforts to bring reconciliation in the United States, while the head of the nation's Catholic bishops condemned Biden's prochoice stand on abortion.

A surge in the bond market's best gauge of how much inflation investors expect in the years ahead could be underestimating how long the economic shock from the pandemic will last, even if the new Joe Biden administration pushes its proposed massive stimul...