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Donald Trump set to return to the spotlight with CPAC speech

Trump, who never admits defeat, mulls how to keep up fight

1:12 pm November 9, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump never admits defeat. But he faces a stark choice now that Democrat Joe Biden has won the White House: Concede graciously for the sake of the nation or don’t and get evicted anyway. After nearly four tortured days of counting yielded a victory for Biden, Trump was still insisting the race […]

Biden shores up fragile ‘blue wall’ in industrial north

10:53 pm November 8, 2020

Washington: Joe Biden shored up the Democrats’ “blue wall,” — more sturdily in Michigan, more tenuously in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — to rebuild the party’s path back to the White House. And while The Associated Press had called all three states and their combined 46 Electoral College votes for Biden, the Democrat’s relatively narrow margins there reflect the […]

US President-elect Joe Biden has been a strong proponent of closer India-US ties

10:48 pm November 8, 2020

New Delhi: A strong proponent of closer India-US ties since his days as a senator in the 1970s, US President-elect Joe Biden had played a key role in getting the approval of the Senate for the civil nuclear deal between the two countries in 2008 and even co-sponsored several legislations on countering terrorism. In August […]

Will get COVID-19 under control by listening to experts: Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris: The inspiring story of many firsts

11:58 pm November 7, 2020

Washington: Known as the “female Obama”, first time Senator Kamala Devi Harris has scripted history by becoming first woman, Black and Indian-American vice president of the United States. Harris was picked by Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as his running mate in August, months after she suspended her own presidential dreams, saying she lacked the financial resources to continue her campaign. A fierce critic-turned ally of her […]

Joe Biden administration promises focus on environmental justice

Joe Biden: From being one of the youngest Senators to oldest president

11:45 pm November 7, 2020

Washington: Third time lucky is an apt phrase to describe the remarkable rise of Joe Biden, a veteran in US politics for around five decades, from being one of the youngest senators in history to the oldest American president. The 77-year-old six-term Democratic senator, who triumphed over incumbent Republican President Donald Trump in Tuesday’s presidential election, ran twice unsuccessfully for president – in 1988 and […]