Initial unemployment claims in the US dropped to 498,000, a new low since the Covid-19 pandemic ravaged the labour market early last year, the Labour Department reported....
The Indian-American Sehgal Foundation, based in Des Moines, Iowa, announced that it will ship 200 oxygen concentrators to seven Indian states on Thursday....
Indian students will be the major beneficiaries of Canada's new one-time immigration programme which opened for applications on Wednesday....
South Carolina was one step closer to introducing firing squads to the US state's execution methods amid a lack of lethal-injection drugs....
Students at the Harvard University in the US will be required to be vaccinated against Covid-19 at the start of the new term later this year....
US House Republican leaders have moved to expel Liz Cheney, the third-ranking party member who repeatedly spoke out against former President Donald Trump, from her leadership post by either publicly supporting or privately backing her replacement....
After the independent Oversight Board upheld Facebook's decision to ban Donald Trump, the former US President slammed the move as a "total disgrace," saying the Big Tech companies "must pay a political price."...
Private companies in the US added 742,000 jobs in April, indicating continued labour market recovery, payroll data company Automatic Data Processing (ADP) reported....
The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 154.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.23 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. ...
The US Air Force said that it aborted a test launch of an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) before the launch, adding the cause was under investigation....
