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New Delhi, Sept 3: Under pressure for weeks over its handling of hate speech, Facebook on Thursday banned BJP politician T. Raja Singh from its platform and Instagram for violating its policy around content promoting violence and hate. “We have banned Raja Singh from Facebook for violating our policy prohibiting those that promote or engage in violence and hate from having a presence on our

Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja aka Shailaja Teacher has been named as the winner of World's Top 50 Thinkers Thinkers of COVID-19 Age by UK-based Prospect Magazine. Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand is ranked second in the list that was prepared from the result of a public ballot. "So deft was her handling of a 2018 outbreak of the deadly Nipah disease that it was commemorated

New Delhi, Sept 2: Nearly two months after it banned 59 China-linked apps, the government on Wednesday decided to block 118 mobile apps including PUBG MOBILE Nordic Map: Livik, WeChat Work and WeChat in view of the information available that they are engaged in activities which are prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity, defence and security of India and public order. The decision came amid

India has reported a 3.4% increase suicide cases in 2019, with a distraught person killing himself every four minutes in the country. Shockingly, five states -- Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka -- alone account for 49.5% of the suicides in the country. Altogether, 1,39,123 people, including 41,493 women and 17 transgenders, took their own lives last year compared

Mathura, Sep 2: Hours after the Allahabad High Court granted conditional bail to him, Dr Kafeel Khan was released from the Mathura jail. Dr Khan was charged under the National Security Act for his speech at the Aligarh Muslim University during a protest against the racist Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Notably, the order came days after the Supreme Court asked the High Court to decide and

Even as India has shown the sings of becoming the new global epicentre of novel coronavirus, the country’s economy has been served a knock-out punch amid the pandemic. The arbitrary and unplanned lockdown imposed by the Narendra Modi led government mainly weighed on the already-declining consumer demand and investment in the country. With the data showing contraction in India’s GDP by 23.9 per

Chennai, Sept 1: Two days after former Karnataka IPS officer K Annamalai was appointed as the vice president of the Tamil Nadu state unit of Bharatiya Janata Party, a notorious gangster too was inducted into the saffron party. Gangster ‘Red Hills’ Surya on August 31 had come to join the party at an event attended by State president L. Murugan at Vandalur. However, he fled on seeing the local

New Delhi, Sept 1: Rajeev Kumar assumed charge as the Election Commissioner of India on Tuesday. He joined the Election Commission of India with Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora and Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra. Kumar, a Former Finance Secretary was appointed as Election Commissioner following the resignation of Ashok Lavasa. "The President is pleased to appoint Rajiv Kumar, IAS

New Delhi, Sep 1: Former President Pranab Mukherjee was cremated with full state honours at the Lodhi road electric crematorium on Tuesday afternoon. His son performed his last rites. Mukherjee's family and relatives paid their last respects clad in PPE kits while conforming to Covid-19 safeguards. An Army contingent gave a guard of honour and a gun salute to the former President. Mukherjee (84)

New Delhi, Sept 1: In view of the ongoing restrictions due to COVID-19, the mortal remains of former President Pranab Mukherjee arrived at the crematorium in a hearse van instead of the gun carriage. "Due to the requirement of following social distancing norms and other COVID-19 related protocols, the mortal remains of the former President were taken in a hearse van instead of the normal gun