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New Delhi : Democrat members in the US parliament are planning to discuss impeachment against President Donald Trump to formally reduce Trump's authority to Vice President Mike Pence just before the vote on Wednesday. The plan came after…
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New York: US vice president elect Kamala Harris' cover photograph on the latest edition of Vogue has lit up the internet with duelling interpretations of how she is represented even as Harris' own team is said to be less than thrilled about…
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New Delhi: 'Becoming' by Michelle Obama and 'Where the Crawdads Sing' by Delia Owens were among the most popular ebooks borrowed from libraries in 2020, recent data shows.Data by OverDrive, the leading digital reading platform for…
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New York: Indian-American novelist Ved Mehta, who shone a bright literary light of evocativeness and imagery overcoming his blindness, has died here at the age of 86.The New Yorker magazine, where he had been a staff writer…
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New York: Social media giant Twitter announced that it is banning US President Donald Trump from its platform, citing "risk of further incitement of violence".The Twitter ban comes two days after a pro-Trump mob stormed the…
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Washington: The US Justice Department announced on Thursday that Boeing has agreed to pay more than $2.5 billion to resolve a criminal charge related to a conspiracy to defraud regulators over the 737 MAX crashes."The tragic…
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Washington: Facebook, which had removed a video in which US President Donald Trump urged his supporters, who forced their way into the Capitol, "to go home" but repeated his allegations of fraud in the presidential elections, and…
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Berlin : After Britain, now Germany too has decided to impose strict lockdown in the country again. As the threat of the coronavirus increases, the German government has announced a nationwide lockdown. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has…
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New Delhi: Japan's Kirin Holdings is set to invest $30 million in beer maker B9 Beverages for a sub-10 per cent stake in the New Delhi-based company.B9 Beverages was in talks with several international brewing majors, including Kirin,…
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United Nations: With a pledge to "bring human-centric and inclusive solutions" to world problems, India has taken its place on the UN Security Council, the organisation's highest decision-making body. India's membership was…
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