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NEW DELHI: The BJP’s success in the Bihar polls, polls and elections of local bodies in several states since September 27, when the Presidentassent, show people in rural zones have full faith in the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Minister of the Union Smriti Irani he said on Monday. …

NEW DELHI: With speculation that Sharad Pawar could become President of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), former cabinet minister and senior Congress leader Q Chidambaram said on Sunday that the position is not that of a prime minister, noting that even Pawar will not want to be declared president of …

President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Sadaiv Atal on his 96th birthday on Friday. Union ministers, including Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal, were also present at Sadaiv Atal, a monument built near Rashtriya Smriti …

NEW DELHI: A delegation of opposition parties will meet President Ram Nath Kovind on Dec. 9 out of concerns about the three new farm laws enacted by the Center in September and to seek their repeal, senior leaders said Tuesday. CPM Secretary General Sitaram Yechury said the five-member delegation – …

Iran has instructed its oil ministry to prepare facilities for the production and sale of crude oil at full capacity within three months, state media said on Sunday, ahead of a possible easing of US sanctions after the president elect Joe Biden takes office. They cited President Hassan Rouhani saying …

WASHINGTON: The Trump administration’s own federal agencies charged with overseeing election security said Thursday that the Nov. 3 poll was “the safest in American history” and there was no “evidence” of fraud. Elsewhere, China and Pope Francis reached out to congratulate the Biden-Harris team, and the AP called Arizona for …

Following the statement Saturday that Democrat Joe Biden had won the White House race, Republican President Donald Trump and his allies made one thing clear: They don’t plan to budge anytime soon. The president, who has spent months trying to undermine election results with unproven allegations of fraud, vowed Saturday …

Democrat Joe Biden on Saturday thanked the people of the United States for their massive victory over Donald Trump in the presidential election. Minutes after becoming the 46th president, Biden said he will be “a president for all Americans.” “America, it is an honor that you have chosen me to …

Kamala’s mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was originally from Chennai in Tamil Nadu. After a four-day marathon ballot count, the United States of America elected Democratic nominees Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to the White House, making Kamala the first black and Asian-American vice presidential candidate in the United States history. She …

NEW DELHI: In the United States, a presidential candidate can win more votes than his rival and still lose. It happened to Hillary Clinton in 2016. This possibility exists because of the “electoral college,” an 18th-century compromise between the direct election of the people and the Presidentappointment by the Congress …