By: Desk Explained | New Delhi | September 27, 2020 10:36:23 pm Preparations take place for the first presidential debate outside the Sheila and Eric Samson Pavilion, Cleveland, Ohio, on September 27 (Photo: AP). With less than 40 days left before the US presidential election, President Donald Trump and his …
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By: Desk Explained | New Delhi | Updated: September 26, 2020 7:54:41 am The Bidens’ connection to Ukraine began in April 2014, when Hunter Biden joined the board of directors of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas company. (Photo: Elizabeth Weinberg / The New York Times) Six weeks before the …
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Written by Aashish Aryan | New Delhi | Updated: September 26, 2020 7:28:14 am Pedestrians pass a Vodafone India Ltd. store in Mumbai. (Bloomberg photo: Dhiraj Singh) In a unanimous decision, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled on Friday that India’s retrospective claim for Rs 22,100 crore …
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Written by Harish Damodaran | New Delhi | Updated: September 25, 2020 9:38:15 am A wheat field in Punjab. Wheat is one of 23 agricultural products for which the Center currently sets PMS. (Express photo: Jasbir Malhi) The recently enacted law dismantling the APMC (agricultural produce market committee) mandis monopoly, …
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Written by Sushant Kulkarni, edited by Explained Desk | Pune | September 20, 2020 10:06:18 am INS Viraat is arrested and discharged after 30 years of service in 2017. (Express photo by Nirmal Harindran) INS Viraat, the world’s longest-serving aircraft carrier, started his last towed journey on Saturday from Mumbai, …
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Written by Om Marathe | New Delhi | Updated: September 14, 2020 9:23:41 pm President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania (AP) Republican strategist and convicted felon Roger Stone, whose 40-month prison sentence was commuted by President …
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Written by Arun Janardhanan, edited by Explained Desk | Chennai | Updated: September 14, 2020 7:03:38 pm Surya said it was painful that students were forced to prove their eligibility by writing a test “at a time when there was a threat to life due to the coronavirus pandemic.” With …
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Written by Santosh Singh | Patna | September 13, 2020 4:20:26 pm In this March 16, 2011 file photo, RJD MP Raghuvansh Prasad Singh at the House of Parliament during the current budget session in New Delhi. (Photo by PTI / Atul Yadav) (PTI13-09-2020_000023B) Veteran Socialist leader, former Union Minister …
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Written by Udit Misra, edited by Explained Desk | New Delhi | September 13, 2020 7:56:41 am Migrant workers who had left Maharashtra during the lockdown returned to the state when restrictions were eased. (Express photo by Pradip Das) Dear readers, This week began with several economists dating their revised …
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Written by Neha Banka, edited by Explained Desk | Kolkata | Updated: Sep 12, 2020 1:06:41 pm FILE PHOTO: People wave British Union Jack flags as they celebrate in Parliament Square on Brexit Day in London, Britain, Jan.31, 2020. REUTERS / Simon Dawson / File photo the European Union (EU) …
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