Month: November 2020

India reports 37th Day of Recoveries outnumbering New Cases

Positivity Rate and Daily Fatalities continue with sustained Decline DELHI, NOVEMBER 9: For the second day, new cases reported in the last 24 hours did not cross the 50,000 mark. 45,903 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. New daily cases continue to trend downwards with […]

The 15th Finance Commission submits its Report for 2021-22 to 2025-26 to the President of India

DELHI, NOVEMBER 9: The Fifteenth Finance Commission (XVFC) led by Chairman Sh N K Singh, today submitted its Report for the period 2021-22 to 2025-26 to the Hon’ble President of India. Members of the Commission, Shri Ajay Narayan Jha, Prof. Anoop Singh, Dr. Ashok Lahiri and Dr. Ramesh […]

India records 45,903 new COVID-19 cases, 490 more deaths

New Delhi, Nov 9:  India’s COVID-19 caseload rose to 85,53,657 with 45,903 new infections being reported, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease crossed 79 lakh, pushing the national recovery rate to 92.56 per cent, according to the Union health ministry data updated on […]

Trump, who never admits defeat, mulls how to keep up fight

Washington, Nov 9 : President Donald Trump never admits defeat. But he faces a stark choice now that Democrat Joe Biden has won the White House: Concede graciously for the sake of the nation or don’t and get evicted anyway. After nearly four tortured days of counting yielded a […]

Azerbaijani leader: Forces seize key Nagorno-Karabakh city

MOSCOW — Azerbaijani forces have taken control of the strategically key city of Shushi in Nagorno-Karabakh where fighting with Armenia has raged for more than a month, the country’s president said Sunday. In a televised address to the nation, President Ilham Aliyev said “Shusha is ours — Karabakh […]

Bulletin on Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19)

JAMMU, NOVEMBER 08: The Government on Sunday informed that 555 new positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19), 213 from Jammu division and 342 from Kashmir division, have been reported today thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 98892. Also 05 COVID-19 […]

Firecrackers and prayers as Indians celebrate Harris’ win

THULASENDRAPURAM, India — Waking up to the news of Kamala Harris’ election as U.S. vice president, overjoyed people in her Indian grandfather’s hometown set off firecrackers and offered prayers on Sunday. Groups gathered at street corners in Thulasendrapuram, a tiny village of 350 people, reading newspapers and chatting […]

Americans pivot from red-hot Trump to Biden’s seasoned cool

WASHINGTON — In a crystallizing moment at the last presidential debate, Donald Trump and Joe Biden fielded a question about people of color who live alongside chemical plants and oil refineries that seem to be making them sick. As is his way, Biden responded with I’ve-been-there empathy. He […]

Biden promotes unity, turns to business of transition

WILMINGTON, Del. — Joe Biden used his first national address as president-elect to vow to heal a deeply divided nation, declaring it was time to “let this grim era of demonization in America begin to end” and reaching out to the millions of people who voted against him […]

Newsmaker: A longtime fixture in U.S. politics, Biden finally wins elusive prize

WASHINGTON – Joe Biden, a fixture in U.S. politics for a half century as a senator and vice president, completed a long climb to the political summit that included two previous failed presidential bids by defeating President Donald Trump. When he enters the White House on Jan. 20, […]

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