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Modi to address BJP workers of Varanasi on Oct 24

3:02 pm October 22, 2019

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address BJP workers of Varanasi constituency on October 24, the day the result of two state assembly elections will be announced. In a tweet, Modi urged all workers to join the interaction and asked them to share any suggestion or question they may have on his NaMo app. […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee hold extensive discussions

PM Modi, Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee hold extensive discussions

1:39 pm October 22, 2019

New Delhi: Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee on Tuesday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and held a “healthy and extensive” interaction on various subjects. Banerjee, an Indian-born American professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has won Nobel in economics, jointly with wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for “experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”. “Excellent […]

French govt says new Brexit delay ‘in nobody’s interest’

8:27 pm October 21, 2019

Paris: France believes an additional delay to Britain’s exit from the EU is “in nobody’s interest,” a government spokeswoman said Monday, as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson seeks support from MPs for a new divorce deal. “It’s now up to the British parliament to say what it thinks, it’s no longer up to the European […]

EU mulls Johnson’s reluctant Brexit delay request

2:41 pm October 20, 2019

London: EU leaders were on Sunday considering a request by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to delay Britain’s departure from the bloc, which he was forced to make after MPs refused to back his Brexit deal. Johnson has pinned his premiership on getting Britain out of the European Union on October 31, more than three years […]

UK's Brexit deal estimated to cost almost USD 100 billion

UK lawmakers vote to delay final Brexit decision again

10:14 pm October 19, 2019

LONDON: In major blow to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, U.K. lawmakers voted Saturday to postpone a decision on whether to back his Brexit deal with the European Union, throwing a wrench into government plans to leave the bloc at the end of this month. The prime minister is now required by law to ask […]