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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ultra-nationalist government, now in its second innings, will go down in history as one of the most centralised, top-down and one-person-centric government commanding a super-majority in Parliament. India’s grand old party and the current opposition party, Indian National Congress, has an identity crisis. Not only ...

Photographer: John Moore/Getty Images Photographer: John Moore/Getty Images We're tracking the latest on the coronavirus outbreak and the global response. Sign up here for our daily newsletter on what you need to know.Pfizer Inc.’s chief executive officer said it’s likely the U.S. will deploy a Covid-19 vaccine before the ...

Actor Kangana Ranaut on Sunday met Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari in Mumbai amid her feud with the state government over the demolition of her property and comments on the law and order situation. Ranaut claimed that she had approached the governor as a citizen and had nothing to ...

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut onSunday said it was unfortunate that the BJP is backing Kangana Ranaut despite the actress likening Mumbai to Pak-occupied Kashmir, and added this was done with an eye on Bihar polls. In his weekly column Rokhthok in Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana', ...

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES -- Afghanistan's warring sides started negotiations for the first time, bringing together the Taliban and delegates appointed by the Afghan government Saturday for historic meetings aimed at ending decades of war. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attended the opening ceremony in Qatar, where the ...

Photographer: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg Photographer: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg Radically different opinions around the world on the safety, effectiveness and importance of vaccines highlight the challenge facing health officials once a Covid-19 shot arrives.In countries such as South Korea, Indonesia, Pakistan and Poland, confidence in vaccines has declined in recent ...

Photographer: Jonathan Ernst/AFP via Getty Images Photographer: Jonathan Ernst/AFP via Getty Images The Taliban, Afghan officials and the U.S. said long-delayed peace talks between the insurgent group and President Ashraf Ghani’s government will finally begin in Qatar this weekend, just after the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror ...

At Wednesday’s PMQs, Boris Johnson dismissed the Extinction Rebellion protesters outside parliament as a bunch of “crusty left-wing anarchists”. It is abundantly clear that he is a single-issue PM, but he would do well to remember that he was elected to represent the whole population of the United Kingdom, ...

MUMBAI: The BJP on Wednesday lashed out at the Shiv Sena-led MVA dispensation over razing of "illegal alterations" at the bungalow of actress Kangana Ranaut by the Mumbai civic body, terming the development "vendetta politics" and a kind of "government-sponsored terror" in the state. Leader of the opposition in ...

National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said that he will vacate his government accommodation in Srinagar before the end of October. In a post on Twitter, Abdullah shared his letter to the Jammu and Kashmir administration that he wrote in July.“Consequent upon the change of entitlements for former ...