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Nirmala Sitharaman in Forbes list of 100 most powerful women
Rediff.com8 Dec 2020The women on the 17th annual Forbes Power List hail from 30 countries and were born across four generations.
Indian-American teen named first-ever TIME 'Kid of the Year'
Rediff.com4 Dec 2020Fifteen-year-old Indian-American Gitanjali Rao was selected from a field of more than 5,000 nominees as TIME's first-ever Kid of the Year. She was interviewed by actor and activist Angelina Jolie for the TIME special.
Oxford Covid vaccine under lens after error: Report
Rediff.com26 Nov 2020AstraZeneca Plc and the University of Oxford are facing questions about their Covid-19 vaccine and whether regulators would quickly authorise its emergency use after the pharma company acknowledged an error in the vaccine dosage received by some participants and other irregularities and omissions, according to the New York Times.
Recent breakthroughs on vaccines offer ray of hope: UN chief
Rediff.com21 Nov 2020This week, global drugmakers Pfizer and BioNTech said their COVID-19 vaccine candidate is 95 per cent effective, including in adults over 65 years of age.
Pfizer says its Covid vaccine is 95% effective in final trials
Rediff.com18 Nov 2020Pfizer and BioNTech said they have concluded phase 3 study of their mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate BNT162b2, meeting all primary efficacy endpoints.
Some countries exporting terror amid Covid: India at UN
Rediff.com18 Nov 2020India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador T S Tirumurti, said on Tuesday that India condemns all forms of anti-semitism and all forms of discrimination on religious grounds anywhere in the world.
Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine is 94.5% effective
Rediff.com16 Nov 2020Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Moderna's announcement comes just a week after Pfizer and Biontech said their COVID-19 vaccine candidate was found to be more than 90 per cent effective in preventing COVID-19 in participants.
Iconic Empire State Building lit up in orange for Diwali
Rediff.com14 Nov 2020The Federation of Indian Associations of the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, the leading umbrella diaspora organisation in the US, partnering with the Empire State Building, marked the festival of lights by illuminating the iconic Manhattan building in orange on Friday.
Our assistance doesn't create indebtedness: India at G-77 ministerial meeting
Rediff.com13 Nov 2020"In India's development cooperation, we will be guided by our partners' development priorities. Our assistance does not create indebtedness and is without conditionalities," he said at the 44th Annual Meeting of the G-77 Foreign Ministers on Thursday, in a veiled reference to China's loans which has led to debt-traps in some countries.
What Obama said about Rahul Gandhi in his memoir
Rediff.com13 Nov 2020On Gandhi, Obama says he has 'a nervous, unformed quality about him, as if he were a student who'd done the coursework and was eager to impress the teacher but deep down lacked either the aptitude or the passion to master the subject', according to The New York Times review.
Harris' husband Douglas to be America's first 'Second Gentleman'
Rediff.com8 Nov 2020America has never in its history before had a female President and Vice President so it remains to be seen what formal title -- 'Second Gentleman, Second Husband' -- will be given to the first male spouse of an elected leader.
Harris' win latest in growing list of desi lawmakers
Rediff.com8 Nov 2020Countries across the world -- from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada to Singapore and New Zealand, are witnessing phenomenal strides by Indian-origin politicians, who are now taking on influential and prominent roles in governments and cabinets.
'Must understand Trump supporters and their issues'
Rediff.com6 Nov 2020'There are voters that may only come out to vote for him because he's speaking to their issues and they may not be Democrat or Republican'
Raja Krishnamoorthi on why so many Indian Americans are running for office
Rediff.com5 Nov 2020With an increasing number of people from the Indian-American community playing a significant role in US elections, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi said there is a realisation among them that "if you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu -- that is why they are voting and running for office in large numbers".
US formally exits Paris climate deal
Rediff.com4 Nov 2020President Trump originally announced his intention to withdraw from the agreement in 2017 and formally notified the United Nations last year. The US exited the pact after a mandatory year-long waiting period that ended on Wednesday.
Trump Jr's 'victory map' shows J-K, northeast out of India
Rediff.com4 Nov 2020The map showed all the countries, including water bodies and Antarctica, coloured red, with the exception of the state of California, India, Mexico, Liberia, Cuba and China coloured blue -- the hue of the Democratic party. However, while India was coloured blue, Jammu and Kashmir and the North-East states were coloured red.
Mira Nair's son wins election to New York State assembly
Rediff.com4 Nov 2020'It's official: we won. I'm going to Albany to fight to tax the rich, heal the sick, house the poor & build a socialist New York. But I can't do it alone. To win socialism, we'll need a mass movement of the multiracial working class as well. So let's build one,' Mamdani tweeted.
About 69% American-Muslims vote for Biden: Exit poll
Rediff.com4 Nov 2020Compared with the 2016 election, in which Donald Trump received a 13 per cent of the Muslim vote, Trump in 2020 received 4 per cent more support.
US sees record voter turnout in Trump-Biden clash
Rediff.com4 Nov 2020The US appears to be on track to see over 160 million votes cast in the 2020 presidential election, a turnout rate of about 67 per cent, which is higher than what the country has witnessed in more than a century, as President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden campaigned through the final day to get more voters to the polling booths.
Robocalls urge voters to stay home on US D-Day
Rediff.com4 Nov 2020There were allegations that voters are receiving robocalls, spreading disinformation and encouraging people to stay home on Election Day.