Day: February 3, 2021

The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a petition seeking to form a committee headed by a former Judge to conduct a time-bound probe into the violence during tractor rally in Delhi on the Republic Day.

President Joe Biden met with a group of Republican senators who have proposed a slimmed down USD 618 billion coronavirus aid package — a fraction of the USD 1.9 trillion he is seeking — as congressional Democrats vowed to push ahead with or without GOP support.

The Tamilnadu Assembly today condoled the deaths of former Minister for Agriculture R Doraikkannu, veteran playback singer S P Balasubrahmanyam and Cancer Institute chairperson Dr V Shanta.

Days ahead of arrival of expelled AIADMK leader V K Sasikala to Chennai, senior Minister O S Manian today said the party’s leadership will decide on the merger of AIADMK and AMMK.

After moving out of Prasad Studios following a legal dispute, music composer Ilaiyaraaja today stepped into a new studio at Kodambakkam.

Britain’s Captain Tom Moore, the World War Two veteran who lifted a nation’s spirits by raising millions of pounds for health service workers battling the coronavirus, died on Tuesday aged 100 after he contracted Covid-19.

Scores of people in Myanmar’s largest city honked car horns and banged on pots and pans on Tuesday evening in the first known public resistance to the coup led a day earlier by the country’s military.

US Democratic leaders have filed a joint budget resolution for fiscal year 2021 that could pave the way for Congress to quickly pass President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief proposal, with or without help from the Republicans.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Tuesday announced that he will extend the state of emergency for Tokyo and other regions hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic by a month until 7 March.