AUGUST 6, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks during her weekly press conference at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on July 31, 2020. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected the possibility of a short-term extension of federal jobless benefits during her news conference on Thursday, taking...
AUGUST 6, 2020
New Delhi: Former First Lady Michelle Obama has said that she has been suffering from “low-grade depression” because of the coronavirus pandemic, racial injustice and the “hypocrisy” of the Trump administration.
In the second episode of The Michelle Obama Podcast, which aired Wednesday, Obama said managing “emotional highs and lows” required “knowing yourself” and “the things that do...
AUGUST 6, 2020
Members of an honor guard march before a welcoming ceremony for Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan, unseen, outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
China and Pakistan have begun an unprecedented intelligence-sharing arrangement in an attempt to secure Beijing's influence in Afghanistan at the expense of...
AUGUST 6, 2020
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia with President Xi Jinping of China in Beijing in 2019. China is helping the Saudis develop nuclear fuel production ability. - Liu Weibing/Xinhua, via AP
American intelligence agencies are scrutinizing efforts by Saudi Arabia to build up its ability to produce nuclear fuel that could put the kingdom on a...
AUGUST 5, 2020
President Trump has been locked in a yearlong battle with the Manhattan district attorney over releasing his tax records to criminal investigators. - Doug Mills/NY
The New York prosecutors who are seeking President Trump’s tax records have also subpoenaed his longtime lender, a sign that their criminal investigation into Mr. Trump’s business practices is more wide-ranging than previously...
AUGUST 5, 2020
Bhanu Baweja, chief strategist, UBS Investment Bank
The pandemic will transform several industries forever and the big will only get bigger as smaller companies just don't have the cash buffer. Bhanu Baweja, chief strategist at UBS Investment Bank, in an interview with Malini Bhupta, says that if a country's claim to fame is low wages, then it will...
AUGUST 5, 2020
Members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday held a closed-door informal session on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir under 'Any Other Business'(AoB).
Sources told India Today that an AoB is a 'closed informal session' without any records. "Today's meeting ended without any outcome or press elements. This is how it was the last two...
AUGUST 5, 2020
Facebook on Wednesday said it had removed a post from President Donald Trump's page for containing false claims about Covid-19.
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. - Andrew Harnik/AP
The post was a video of an...
AUGUST 5, 2020
New Delhi: India on Wednesday (August 5) strongly rejected Chinese comments on Jammu and Kashmir, advising China not to comment on "internal matters". In response to a media query on Chinese MFA spokespersons comment on Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, official spokesperson, Ministry of External Affairs, Anurag Srivastava said.
"We have noted the comments of the...
AUGUST 5, 2020
Declaring August 5 as a “golden day” in India’s history, Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke ground and laid a silver brick, the first in the construction of a Ram Temple in Ayodhya at the site believed to be the Hindu god’s birthplace and where the Babri Masjid once stood.
Modi offered prayers to nine stone blocks with Lord...
