Europe

German governor apologizes for 'little Merkel' comment

Merkel: US, Germany must stand together on climate change

11:42 pm November 9, 2020

Berlin: The US and Germany must stand “side by side” in handling the coronavirus pandemic, fighting global warming and terrorism, and in working for “an open global economy and free trade,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday. President-elect Joe Biden brings decades of experience in domestic and foreign policy to the job, and “he knows Germany and Europe well,” Merkel said in her […]

Suspense on deputy CM, other ministers in Bihar

Govt will do whatever it takes to make India engine of global growth: PM to investors

10:47 pm November 5, 2020

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday wooed global investors by showcasing the recent agriculture and labor reforms and faster-than-anticipated reflating of the economy and asserted that the government will do whatever it takes to make India the engine of global growth resurgence. Speaking to 20 top global investors, the Prime Minister said the ‘Self-Reliant India’ […]

UK extends wage support scheme until March amid new lockdown

10:34 pm November 5, 2020

LONDON (AP): The British government and the Bank of England joined forces Thursday to provide further support to an economy that is set for a difficult winter following the imposition of new coronavirus lockdown measures. Hours after the central bank increased its monetary stimulus by a bigger than anticipated 150 billion pounds ($195 billion), Treasury […]

‘Once in a Blue Moon’ on October 31

5:38 pm October 28, 2020

By Aditya Vikram Singh/New Delhi: THE ‘Once in a Blue Moon’ story will come to be true once again this Saturday when the world will witness the occurrence of the rare celestial wonder Blue Moon on October 31. Although this is a rare and good tiding for the excited and exalted sky-watchers, there is some […]

Encounter on between security forces, terrorists in Poonch

Spain 1st in western Europe to hit 1 million virus cases

11:56 pm October 21, 2020

Madrid: Spain became the first country in western Europe to accumulate more than 1 million confirmed COVID-19 infections on Wednesday as the nation of 47 million struggles to contain a resurgence of the virus. The health ministry said that its accumulative case load since the start of the pandemic reached 1,005,295 after reporting 16,973 more […]