New Delhi: Under pressure for weeks over its handling of hate speech, Facebook on Thursday said it has banned BJP politician T Raja Singh from its platform and Instagram for violating its policy on content promoting violence and hate. “We have banned Raja Singh from Facebook for violating our policy prohibiting those that promote or engage […]
New Delhi:Army Chief Gen MM Naravane began a two-day visit to Ladakh on Thursday to carry out a comprehensive review of the security situation in the region in view of China’s fresh attempts to change status quo along the southern bank of Pangong lake, official sources said. Gen Naravane will be briefed about the evolving […]
New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 tally raced past the 38-lakh mark on Thursday with the sharpest single-day spike of 83,883 fresh cases, while the number of recoveries surged to 29,70,492, pushing the recovery rate to over 77 per cent, Union health ministry data showed. The total number of coronavirus cases in the country mounted to 38,53,406, while […]
New Delhi: Twitter on Thursday said that the account linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal website was hacked, and was later restored. “We’re aware of this activity and have taken steps to secure the compromised account. We are actively investigating the situation. At this time, we are not aware of additional accounts being impacted. Advice […]
Washington: Both President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden will commemorate the 19th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in rural Pennsylvania where one of the hijacked planes crashed in a field, the White House and Biden’s campaign announced Wednesday. It was not immediately clear whether their visits to the memorial in Shanksville will overlap. […]
Washington: The United States has urged India to create an environment that will foster its position in the global supply chain and said that the country continues to face challenges on the market access front despite improvement in the ease of doing business. Observing that the coronavirus pandemic may give rise to self-sufficiency and self-reliance […]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday that ‘Mission Karmayogi’, a major bureaucratic reform exercise approved by the Union Cabinet, will “radically” improve the government’s human resource management practices, asserting that the programme aims to prepare civil servants for the future. The exercise will use scale and state of the art infrastructure to augment […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday reported 641 new COVID-19 infections taking the overall tally to 38864. The fresh cases comprise 367 cases in Kashmir while the remaining 274 cases in Jammu division as per the government’s media bulletin. As per the data, there are 8053 active COVID-19 cases in J&K while 30079 patients have […]
New Delhi: The government on Wednesday blocked 118 more mobile applications, including popular gaming app PUBG, terming them prejudicial to the sovereignty, integrity and defence of the nation. The banned apps include Baidu, Baidu Express Edition, Tencent Watchlist, FaceU, WeChat Reading and Tencent Weiyun, besides PUBG Mobile and PUBG Mobile Lite, according to an official statement. […]
New Delhi:The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a bill under which Kashmiri, Dogri and Hindi, apart from the existing Urdu and English, will be the official languages in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Announcing the decision at a news briefing, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said the Jammu and Kashmir Official Languages Bill, 2020 […]