Kovind panel studied simultaneous poll processes in South Africa, Germany, Sweden, 4 other nationsA high-level panel recommended simultaneous Lok Sabha and state assembly elections in India, studying models from seven countries. The Unio...
12 Dec, 2024, 05.08 PM IST
Germany's leader expected to lead country with minority government after coalition collapseGermany's coalition government collapsed after Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired his finance minister. Other ministers resigned, but one later d...
07 Nov, 2024, 01.52 PM IST
Germany reports another COVID-19 record: 50,196 new casesThe total number of confirmed coronavirus cases is now 4.89 million and total deaths rose 235 to 97,198, according to the Robert Koch Insti...
11 Nov, 2021, 12.17 PM IST
Explainer: How Germany's baffling electoral system worksVoters cast two votes: the first for their representative in one of the 299 districts, the second for the party they want in parliament. Al...
25 Sep, 2021, 02.42 AM IST
Merkel set to be German chancellor for fourth term: PollsLatest opinion polls conducted just days before the election unanimously forecast that 62-year-old Merkel, will remain at the helm of the n...
21 Sep, 2017, 11.08 AM IST
Volkswagen scandal: Germany orders probe into new CO2 revelationsGermany has ordered a probe into new allegations that Volkswagen has also cheated on the carbon dioxide emissions in 98,000 petrol cars in ...
05 Nov, 2015, 02.28 PM IST
Germany to intensify fight against terrorGermany's Justice Minister Heiko Maas, a Social Democrat, drafted the bill in line with a UN resolution from last September on foreign figh...
05 Feb, 2015, 02.34 PM IST
Germany tightens foreign travel ban on suspected jihadistsThis was necessary as hundreds of jihadists from this country have been travelling to join the IS militants via Turkey using their identity...
15 Jan, 2015, 03.13 PM IST
Since Independence, it’s been a 67-year wait for an ideal politician in the Indian ParliamentIn these times when political discourse has become more ‘diss-curse’, this highly respected member of the Bundestag would be an apt role mo...
29 Dec, 2014, 06.14 AM IST
Germany to keep 850 troops in AfghanistanAround 1,500 German soldiers currently stationed in northern Afghanistan, their main operational hub since last 13 years.
20 Nov, 2014, 01.25 PM IST
EU fiscal pact on Budget discipline blocked in GermanyGermany's opposition-ruled states have blocked the EU fiscal pact on Budget discipline in the Bundesrat, the upper House of Parliament.
02 Mar, 2013, 04.09 PM IST
- Ten EU nations to press ahead with market transaction tax
Germany and nine other European Union nations will press ahead with plans to introduce a financial market transaction tax.
23 Jun, 2012, 12.19 PM IST
- Germany to make labour market attractive for foreigners
Germany will make its labour mkt more attractive, esp fr non-EU countries, under a new law that would expedite the recognition of foreign e...
02 Apr, 2012, 03.21 PM IST
- Europe's debt crisis strategy suffers setback
Europe's new strategy on resolving the crisis suffered a setback when Germany's highest court ordered a stay on the setting up of a special...
29 Oct, 2011, 02.19 PM IST
- Germany approves deep spending cuts in budget
The German cabinet has approved drastic spending cuts to rein in the national budget despite a stronger than expected turnaround in the eco...
02 Sep, 2010, 05.06 PM IST
- Koehler signs euro zone rescue package into law
Germany's participation in a historic 750 billion-euro (nearly one trillion dollars) rescue package for the financially-troubled euro zone ...
24 May, 2010, 12.20 PM IST
- German Cabinet approves trillion-dollar euro zone bailout plan
The German Cabinet has approved the country's share of a massive 750 billion-euro (nearly a trillion-dollar) financial rescue package for t...
12 May, 2010, 01.03 PM IST