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New Delhi: Meta's global team, which has been summoned by the government after the social media company restricted Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Facebook post, will be questioned on issues around algorithmic bias and their role in public order, sources said Friday. Sources further said that...

New Delhi: India Friday called upon the international community to scrutinise Islamabad's "ruthless" use of force against peaceful protesters in Pakistan-Occupied-Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) and hold it accountable for the "atrocities". Around 40 people were reportedly killed in the crackdown by the security forces in...

New Delhi: A Delhi court Friday sentenced former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and four others to life imprisonment for the murder of IB officer Ankit Sharma during the 2020 Delhi riots. Additional Sessions Judge Praveen Singh pronounced the sentence to all five accused after hearing...

Mumbai: Priyanka Chaturvedi, the former Member of Rajya Sabha from Shiv Sena (UBT) has slammed the recently released trailer of the upcoming Indian epic Ramayana. On Friday, she took to her X, formerly Twitter, and penned a note criticising the recently released trailer, which received...

New Delhi: Union Cabinet Friday approved extension of the PM-KISAN scheme for the next five years till the 2030-31 fiscal with an outlay of Rs 3,15,614 crore. Launched on February 24, 2019, Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) is a centrally sponsored scheme aimed at...

New Delhi: Taking note of accidents due to stray animals on roads, the Supreme Court Friday directed the Centre and the state governments to develop a mechanism for payment of compensation in such accidents. A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and N Kotiswar Singh issued...

New Delhi: Actor Kartik Aaryan has extended support to Assam and donated Rs 1 crore to the Chief Minister's Relief Fund amidst the ongoing floods. The office of the Chief Minister of Assam shared a post on the official X handle Thursday to thank the...

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: The Congress Friday lashed out at the Modi government over alleged sharing of an Odisha medical examination question paper on WhatsApp, saying merely mandating stronger punishments or designating courts as 'fast-track' is not sufficient, and a more honest conversation is needed on corruption...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah of threatening Gen Z, and said that the duo is "India's past" and should be careful about how they treat the country's future. The Leader of Opposition in...

New Delhi: Petrol prices in Delhi would have risen to around Rs 125 per litre during the recent West Asian crisis without ethanol blending, the government said Friday, claiming the programme helped consumers save nearly Rs 30 per litre by cushioning the impact of the...