APRIL 18, 2022
FILE - Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks to the Atlantic Council, on April 13, 2022, in Washington. Yellen plans to meet with Ukraine's prime minister Denys Shmyhal during this week's spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington. At the same time, she'll be trying to avoid contact with Russian officials who plan...
APRIL 18, 2022
Washington, D.C — The Biden administration is taking a key step toward ensuring that federal dollars will support U.S. manufacturing — issuing requirements for how projects funded by the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package source their construction material.
New guidance issued Monday requires that the material purchased — whether it's for a bridge, a highway, a water pipe or...
APRIL 18, 2022
Contrary to President Vladimir Putin’s optimism, two senior Russian officials cautioned on Monday that the real economic pain was yet to come. - Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP
Russia’s central bank chief warned on Monday that the consequences of Western sanctions were only beginning to be felt, and Moscow’s mayor warned that 200,000 jobs were at risk in the Russian capital...
APRIL 16, 2022
Was Lord Hanuman born in Karnataka or Andhra Pradesh? If we are to believe the stand taken by both states, the mighty god seems to be torn between them.
There has been a raging debate on Lord Hanuman’s real birthplace — Anjanadri hills near Tirumala hills in AP or the Anjaneya Betta in Karnataka’s Hampi. Amidst this, celebrations...
APRIL 16, 2022
Amid Hanuman Jayanti celebrations across the country, a hamlet in Maharashtra has distanced itself from all associations with the monkey god. Villagers do not worship Hanuman, they do not name their children after the deity, nor do they buy Maruti cars. Misfortune will befall anyone who purchases a Maruti vehicle, they believe.
This is an account from Daityanandur...
APRIL 15, 2022
India will be able to have reasonable relations with Russia as well as the West as it is much more powerful today than in the Cold War era, said veteran journalist and geopolitical expert Fareed Zakaria in an exclusive interview with India Today TV.
Despite pressure from the West to speak out against Russia over its invasion of...
APRIL 15, 2022
President Biden speaks on the phone to his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office on March 30. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images)
There seems to be basically no good news for Democrats when it comes to President Biden’s political stock ahead of the 2022 midterm elections — and matters seem to be getting worse. Biden’s average...
APRIL 15, 2022
Unseen pics from Alia Bhatt-Ranbir Kapoor wedding captures their cute nokjhok.
Ladies, if your man doesn't make you giggle the way Ranbir Kapoor makes Alia Bhatt, well, too bad. Unseen pictures from Ranbir and Alia's hatke wedding have now flooded the internet, and, much like the lovebirds themselves, they are oh-so-cute. The pics, originally shared by the official...
APRIL 15, 2022
U.S. President Biden signs the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act at the White House in Washington. - JONATHAN ERNST / REUTERS
The White House released President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris' tax returns on Friday, showing that the first couple earned just more than $600,000 in 2021 and paid $150,439 in federal income...
APRIL 15, 2022
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex attend a reception ahead of the 2022 Invictus Games on Friday in The Hague, Netherlands. (Photo: Chris Jackson via Getty Images)
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are ready for the red ― er, yellow ― carpet.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex made their first official appearance at a friends and family reception at the...
