The administration has put in place multi-tier security around each polling booth to ensure that the voters are able to come out without any hassle.
Category: Finance
Liberals still lacking accountability measures as they throw money at pandemic
You get the sense that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is at least a little sensitive about the amount of money that it’s spending to fight the COVID-19 crisis. Read More
Five months after quitting Congress, Urmila Matondkar likely to formally join Shiv Sena on Monday
“It is final that she will join the party. We are not aware whether it will happen tomorrow or not, but she will join the party,” a Shiv Sena leader told ET on condition of anonymity on Sunday.
After Ahmed Patel: Can the Gandhis pull Congress out of the mess?
The question now is whether Rahul and his mother Sonia Gandhi have it in them to pull the party out of the morass in the absence of the man who was the bridge to everything beyond their realm.
India to promote trade, eco partnership & rule of law at Nov 30 SCO heads of Govt meet
India is committed to widening cooperation with SCO by playing a proactive, positive and constructive role in the organization. In this year, India and SCO complete 15 years of formal association, sources explained to ET
‘A step forward’: Federal, provincial governments to investigate grocery store fees on suppliers
Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial agriculture ministers on Friday agreed to launch an investigation to find ways to mend tattered relationships between food producers and supermarkets. Read More
Joe Biden considers Roger Ferguson, Brian Deese to lead his economic council
President-elect Joe Biden is considering Roger Ferguson, a former Federal Reserve vice chair, and Brian Deese, an executive at BlackRock, to be his top White House economic adviser, according to people familiar with the matter.
Beijing detains hundreds of Imams in Xinjiang region
“We started this search in 2018, around May … and after the interviews finished in November [that year], I found that the most targeted population was religious figures,” said Ayup, speaking at a webinar hosted last week by the Washington-based Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) entitled “Where are the Imams? Evidence for mass detention of Uyghur religious figures.”
Controversial Alaska Pebble mine suffers potentially lethal blow with U.S. permit rejection
The Pebble mine in Alaska was dealt a potentially lethal blow after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers rejected a permit for the project. Read More