A man who had his face painted blue and red and donned a fur hat with horns while storming the US Capitol building in Washington D.C. on January 6, has said that he was willing to testify in former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial next month, the media reported citing his lawyer....
“My participation in the celebration of India’s Republic Day today is a testament to the value I place on the friendship United States has with India,†including continued collaboration in all the possible sectors, while stating that the US -India ...
Huntsville City Council (Alabama) began its meeting with Hindu mantras on January 28 evening, containing verses from world’s oldest extant scripture. Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed delivered the remotely pre-recorded invocation from ancient Sanskrit scriptures, which was replayed at the...
The US economy contracted 3.5 per cent in 2020 amid the raging Covid-19 pandemic, the worst annual decline of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) since 1946, according to data released by the Commerce Department. The data, unveiled on Thursday, also showed that the US economy grew at an annual ...
Initial unemployment claims in the US dropped to 847,000 last week, the second consecutive decline after soaring to a five-month high, the Labour Department reported. In the week ending January 23, the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits declined by 67,000 from the previous week's upwardly revised level of ...
Decisive government actions are necessary to ensure swift and extensive vaccine rollout, protect the most vulnerable households and otherwise viable firms, and foster a durable and inclusive recovery, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said. "The Covid-19 pandemic is accelerating in many countries and uncertainty is unusually...
The US has detected the first cases of a new and highly contagious coronavirus variant which was first discovered in South Africa, according to authorities. The two cases was detected in the state of South Carolina, Xinhua news agency reported....
The total number of global coronavirus cases has topped 101 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.18 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Friday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and...
Expressing outrage at the Pakistan Supreme Court's decision to affirm the acquittal of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the key accused in the 2002 kidnap and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, Washington has said it was prepared to prosecute him in the US. ...
Advay Misra, 8, an Indian student in New York, has been named among 1,400 of the "brightest students in the world" by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY) in Baltimore which counts among its alumni the founders of Facebook and Google, Rhodes Scholars and MacArthur Fellows....
