Republican Kevin McCarthy was elected as the new speaker of the United States House of Representatives in a dramatic post-midnight ballot on Saturday, after days of intense negotiations and a series of humiliating defeats to finally capture the gavel on a historic 15th attempt.
The PM will also meet Australian Prime Minister Scot Morrison and Japanese counterpart Yoshihide Suga on the same day.
Citing people with knowledge of the situation, the report said that some managers were being asked to "draw up lists of employees to cut."
Wherever you go, whether it's Malad or the Maldives, people. want. to. take. pictures. Of themselves. Relentlessly, repeatedly, recklessly.
Urvashi Vaid dreamed of a common movement for social justice that could address them all: Racism, gender oppression and homophobia. Sandip Roy salutes the memory of Urvashi Vaid, one of America's most prominent LGBT activists, who passed into the ages this month.
Russian tennis ace Maria Sharapova would soon be an outlaw if she does not fly to Moscow and comply with President Vladimir Putin's new law that requires all 10 million Russians with dual citizenship to register with the Kremlin.
Donald Trump may not live in the White House full-time after assuming the US Presidency in January and is discussing with his advisers about splitting his time between Washington and his penthouse apartment in Manhattan, a media report said.
At a critical time in the history of the United Nations, when the global order itself may be reshaped, following a devastating pandemic, India has chosen an experienced, charming and upright diplomat to lead the Indian delegation to the UN in New York.
IMAGES from the 2nd ODI played between Zimbabwe and India in Harare on Saturday.
Naomi Osaka turned designer for the New York fashion week.
A summary of Wednesday's action at the US Open on Day 3.
New York Fashion Week is back and this year it's all digital.
Raducanu stormed into the third round of the Cincinnati Open
United States' future First Lady Melania Trump and son Barron will not move to the White House immediately after President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration in January with both the parents wary of pulling their child out in the middle of school year.
A new goofy Islamic State recruitment video has emerged that shows terrorists performing bizarre training drills like jumping through flaming hoops in a bid to lure impressionable minds.
He had penned a book on classic film Mughal-E-Azam and was awarded the prestigious BD Goenka Award (1985) and Prem Bhatia Journalism Award in 2010.
Don't look for a volunteering job for money, but as an investment for life, advises management consultant Virender Kapoor.
The account of former US vice-president Joe Biden, who is the current Democratic Party presidential candidate in the November election, was also hacked.
World Bank President Jim Young Kim and Prime Minister Modi also discussed governance structure of the bank
At her first appearance on the runway at the Milan Fashion Week, she hopes to break the stereotype.
COVID-19 patients commonly report symptoms such as brain fog, headaches, and insomnia, complications which are not new after a viral infection, the researchers said.
Bank of New York Mellon Corp has pulled out of providing financial services to the Adani group and its Carmichael coal mine in Australia, saying the venture is incompatible with its environmental, social and governance rules.
Singh, 55, is a graduate of Delhi University class of 1976. He is a motivational speaker, chairs a committee at Queens Borough Community College Holocaust Center, and is a member of Community Board 13. He also serves as the third chair of Queen's Hospital Center board, and works as a director for Red Cross's Queens chapter.
Naomi Osaka will defend her title at the US Open, organisers said on Wednesday, after she withdrew from this year's French Open and Wimbledon on mental health grounds.
Is chocolate a spice or a vegetable or a fruit? Test Your ChocoQ On World Chocolate Day!
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday raided the home of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and 30 other locations in connection with alleged corruption in the implementation of the Delhi Excise Policy.
'I'm angry. Angry at Will Smith. Angry at Chris Rock.'
Mavericks 128, Lakers 110
Contractors were seen busy boarding up major stores and businesses from New York and Boston in the north to southern Houston to Washington DC and Chicago in the east to San Francisco in theWest.
Pre wedding SHEnanigans, emotional posts and posing with the bride squad!
These jobs don't necessarily require a degree in engineering or specialisation in coding.
Uppal was forced to write a confession saying he was "part of ISIS, knew how to make bombs, and that he was going to blow up the school fence," the suit alleges.
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The attacks on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is merely one in a long list of attacks on the media by extremist groups that would like to mandate what and how of free press. So, for the uninitiated, we take a stroll down recent times to see how the media and media persons have seen fearful responses to perceived transgressions.
Internal documents at Facebook show "a struggle with misinformation, hate speech and celebrations of violence" in India, the company's biggest market, with researchers at the social media giant pointing out that there are groups and pages "replete with inflammatory and misleading anti-Muslim content" on its platform, US media reports have said.
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