Retirement fund body EPFO is likely to credit 8.5 per cent rate of interest for 2019-20 in the employees” provident fund (EPF) accounts of around six...
Archive - December 2020
India”s current macroeconomic situation is “very uncertain” and the country”s GDP could contract closer to 10 per cent in the current...
Pakistani Rangers opened fire on forward posts and villages along the International Border (IB) in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on...
The Congress on Saturday cited a media report to claim that 11 farmers had died in the last 17 days while protesting against the new agri laws, with former...
Vice Chief of the Army Staff Lt Gen S K Saini on Saturday asked cadets passing out of the Indian Military Academy (IMA) here to be prepared to rise to...
The US Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit seeking to overturn the results of the presidential election in several key battleground states won by Joe Biden...
Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Saturday said India”s private credit-to-GDP ratio is the lowest among its global peers and the government is in the...
The Delhi Police has increased security arrangements at the city’s border points following the announcement by agitating farmers to block the Jaipur-Delhi and...
Supporters of President Donald Trump are returning to Washington on Saturday for a pair of rallies to back his desperate efforts to subvert the election that...
Doctors and nurses around the US are becoming exhausted and demoralised as they struggle to cope with a record-breaking surge of COVID-19 patients that is...
Australia batsman Marnus Labuschagne on Saturday said there has not been any talk about him opening the batting in the first Test against India but he is ready...
Atlanta was awarded a berth in next year”s CONCACAF Champions League by the U.S. Soccer Federation”s board of directors. Atlanta received the berth...
The 270-km Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was closed due to overnight snowfall and eight families were moved to safer locations after heavy rains triggered...
Four militants of the banned People”s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) were arrested in two separate operations in Jharkhand”s Simedga and...
The US has given a final nod for the emergency use of Pfizer”s COVID-19 vaccine, paving the way for its use in the country worst-hit by the pandemic...
India”s COVID-19 tally of cases climbed to 98.26 lakh with 30,006 new cases in a day, while 93,24,328 people have recuperated so far pushing the national...
FIFA will send an emergency management team to run soccer in Haiti, saying it believed the top official it banned for life for sexually abusing players is...
Polling for 48 Zilla Panchayat (ZP) constituencies in Goa began at 8 am on Saturday. Voters could be seen queuing up at the polling booths across the state as...
The Election Commission (EC) is toying with the idea of providing voters with election photo identity card in a digital format for easy accessibility, a senior...
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows pressed Food and Drug Administration chief Stephen Hahn to grant an emergency use authorisation for Pfizer’s...
Air quality turned poor across Kolkata on a foggy day on Friday as particulate matters hung in the air, an official of the West Bengal Pollution Control Board...
Construction of a German-Russian pipeline that the United States has vehemently opposed resumed on Friday after nearly a year, the company building the...
The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) on Friday urged the government to announce a stimulus package for the newspaper industry as it is facing an...
Bengali actress Arya Banerjee who acted in several Bollywood films such as critically acclaimed ”The Dirty Picture” was found dead at her south...
The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) submitted a chargesheet in a court here on Friday against BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari”s son Abbas in a case of...
The Senate on Friday approved a wide-ranging defence policy bill, sending it to President Donald Trump, despite his threat to veto the bill because it does not...
In view of reported increase in human trafficking cases amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Human Rights Commission has issued advisories to various...
A congressional monitor of federal pandemic aid is raising the possibility of a link between President Donald Trump”s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and a...
An Indian-American is among the 18 astronauts selected by NASA for its manned mission to the Moon and beyond. NASA on Wednesday named the 18 astronauts —...
The lower house of Mexico”s congress has unanimously approved a law that would prohibit all forms of physical punishment of children by parents...
The US has elevated the status of its intellectual property attaches in India, China, European Union and Mexico to that of a Counsellor at their respective...