Month: October 2024

President Joe Biden said Friday he wasn’t confident the US election in November would be peaceful, due to previous comments by Republican contender Donald Trump. “I’m confident it will be free and fair. I don’t know whether it will be peaceful,” Biden told reporters as he made the first appearance of his presidency in the […]

 President Joe Biden said on Friday he would think about alternatives to striking Iranian oil fields if he were in Israel’s shoes, adding he thinks Israel has not yet concluded how to respond to Iran. “The Israelis have not concluded what they are going to do in terms of a strike. That’s under discussion,” Biden […]

<p>Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk announced on Friday that he and fellow protesters from Ladakh would begin an indefinite fast starting Saturday. This decision follows the lack of response from the government to their request for a meeting with the President, Prime Minister, or Union Home Minister.</p> <p>Wangchuk, leading the ‘Delhi Chalo Padyatra’ which started from […]

<p><strong>Patna/Muzaffarpur:</strong> The flood situation remained grim in Bihar on Friday though the water level has come down in several rivers, while a section of the affected people put up a road blockade in Muzaffarpur district alleging inadequate relief measures, officials said.</p> <p>More than 45 lakh people in 30 out of the total 38 districts of […]

India will witness the steepest rise in living standards of the common man on the back of the government’s initiatives and the efforts towards doubling per capita income in a few years, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday. Addressing the 3rd edition of the Kautilya Economic Conclave, the minister stressed that inequality in India […]