Politics

The Senate has confirmed former Florida Sen. Bill Nelson, who once flew on the space shuttle, to be the next NASA administrator.

President Joe Biden laid out a long list of policy priorities in his speech to Congress and some are more politically plausible than others.

The most striking part of President Joe Bidens address to Congress on Wednesday may be the absence of most members of Congress, the very House and Senate lawmakers who will make or break the new administrations agenda.

Vijai Sardesai's Goa forward swept the Margao municipal council by winning five out of eight seats while the BJP won the three remaining seats. Six BJP-backed candidates registered victory from ward 1 to 6 in Mormugao.

He contended that the TMC supremo's "anxiety has grown manifold", after having seen the support that is pouring in for the BJP, and the ruling party, for that reason, has "resorted to attacks on saffron party men".

Speaking during a video-conference of the PM with the chief ministers, Ashok Gehlot said the condition across the country is becoming more frightening due to a surge in coronavirus cases.

The U.S. Interior Department is cancelling oil and gas lease sales from public lands through June amid an ongoing review of how the program contributes to climate change, officials said Wednesday.

Again raising the issue of alleged delay in justice in incidents of desecration of religious texts and subsequent police firing in Punjab's Faridkot in 2015, Congress MLA Navjot Singh Sidhu on Wednesday said it is a "failure of one person, who is hand-in-...

CM Mamata Banerjee has accused the Modi government of “not doing enough”. In a letter to PM Modi, she mentioned that she had asked the Centre to give the states more freedom with matters of vaccination and critical drugs.

The new leader of Cuba's ruling Communist Party may be the first born after its 1959 revolution but he is also a loyalist who is not expected to make significant changes to its oneparty system and has moved only tentatively on marketstyle economic reforms...

JSPA's chief convener Syed Mominul Awal said that they launched a portal on Thursday and people can apply within three months.

The EC is considering clubbing together the last three phases of the West Bengal Assembly Elections, sources said.

Several BJP MLAs and MPs, including Kaushal Kishor, have appealed to the Election Commission to postpone the panchayat elections stating that the polling could become a "super spreader" amid the recent surge in coronavirus cases in the state.

During his first rally in Bengal in this election season, Gandhi took a dig at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and said his party would never align with the BJP and the RSS, unlike the TMC, which in the past had been an alliance partner of the saffron part...

Cuba is poised to enter the postCastro era with Raul Castro due to step down as head of the ruling Communist Party at its congress this week, which will also address the island's severe economic crisis, pandemic response and signs of growing dissent.

The Lokayukta report was in connection with the appointment of the minister’s second cousin in the Kerala State Minority Development Finance Corporation.