Politics

Joe Biden's projected win of the U.S. presidency and the Republican Party potentially retaining control of the U.S. Senate could drive a pickup in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) that took a hit amid the COVID19 pandemic, dealmakers said.

U.S. stocks hovered near unchanged on Friday to close out with a big weekly gain as Democratic challenger Joe Biden edged closer to victory in the presidential election, while the monthly jobs report underscored the hurdles still facing the economy.

Oil settled below $40 a barrel on Friday as rising global coronavirus cases stoked fears about lackluster demand and as drawnout vote counting in the U.S. presidential election kept markets on edge.

Nadda's statement came as Trump appears on the backfoot in the US presidential election race, with Democratic challenger Joe Biden on the cusp of a White House victory.

The Federal Reserve is scheduled to release its latest policy statement on Thursday after two days of debate in which policymakers lacked a critical piece of information: who will run the United States for the next four years.

The election scrambled seats in the House and Senate but ultimately left Congress much like it began, deeply split as voters resisted big changes despite the heated race at the top of the ticket for the White House.

Democrats went into Election Day hoping to reclaim the White House and majorities in both chambers of Congress in a victory that would demonstrate an unmistakable repudiation of President Donald Trump and a Republican Party remade in his image.

TMC MP Saugata Roy ridiculed Shah’s West Bengal trip and said, he is coming here to iron out differences among the party leaders and workers in Bengal ahead of the polls.

In March this year, the 15-month-old Kamal Nath-led government in the state collapsed following the resignation of 22 rebel Congress MLAs in support of Scindia, after he quit Congress.

Launching a scathing attack on Bimal Gurung, Binoy Tamang branded him as a 'proclaimed offender' as he addressed the media after meeting the chief minister.

He further dismissed suggestions of anti-incumbency against the Nitish Kumar government, asserting that the NDA had spent the last decade meeting the people's "needs" and was now focused on taking care of their "aspirations.

Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has announced that all the state-run madrassas will be shut down as the government cannot support any religious education in a secular society.

The former Madhya Pradesh chief minister had moved the Supreme Court challenging the poll body's decision to revoke his "star campaigner" status for violations of the model code during the campaign.

"It is serious issue for us... the state government has failed to provide security to candidates of opposition parties," said Kushwaha, whose party is leading the Grand Alliance Secular Front (GASF) comprising the BSP, the AIMIM, and three other smaller p...

An obscure South Carolina company may be in line for millions of dollars in U.S. government funding to produce a coronavirus treatment after a former Republican senator with a financial stake in the business lobbied senior U.S. government officials.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that through the voting conducted during Phase 1 of the election, it was quite evident that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was all set to form his government in the state again.