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(L-R)Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump, and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan hold up documents after participating in the signing of the Abraham Accords where the countries of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates recognize Israel, at the White House in Washington, DC, September 15, 2020. - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the foreign ministers of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates arrived September 15, 2020 at the White House to sign historic accords normalizing ties between the Jewish and Arab states. (AFP)

Israel signs pacts with UAE, Bahrain in White House ceremony

The agreements do not address the decades-long conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, who view the pacts as a...

16 Sept 2020 9:00 AM IST

The failure of Facebook to appear before the committee shows that it is trying to hide its role in the Delhi riots, Aam Aadmi Partys Raghav Chadha told reporters. This photograph shows a riot affected area in NE Delhi as on 8 March 2020 (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - DTM)

Facebook India chief Ajit Mohan gives hate speech hearing a miss

Last week, a Delhi Assembly panel had summoned him to determine if the social networking site deliberately ignored...

15 Sept 2020 8:41 PM IST

The more than 6,000-word memo by former employee Sophie Zhang cited organised efforts to harass, mislead or manipulate people in Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Bolivia, Ecuador, India and elsewhere, along with election manipulation efforts in the United States and Brazil.

Facebook not doing enough to stop election manipulation, says fired...

She said she found multiple blatant attempts by foreign national governments to abuse the platform on vast scales to...

15 Sept 2020 8:15 PM IST

The rules require telecommunications providers to treat all data traffic the same, and prevent them from reserving better access for their own services, or selling bandwidth to big companies like Google and Netflix while leaving a slower Internet for everyone else.

European Union top court verdict keeps the internet egalitarian

The European Court of Justice on Tuesday issued its first interpretation of the EU's net neutrality rules since they...

15 Sept 2020 7:22 PM IST

YouTube Shorts will be modified based on user feedback before being made more broadly available.

As YouTube Shorts gets rolled out in India, could it dull desi...

YouTube Shorts videos are limited to 15 seconds, according to the Google-owned platform used by some 2 billion people...

15 Sept 2020 6:26 PM IST

Rajnaths warning to China: Any attempt to unilaterally alter status quo is unacceptable

Rajnath's warning to China: Any attempt to unilaterally alter status...

After Singh's statement, the Congress wanted to raise certain issues which was not allowed by Speaker Om Birla.

15 Sept 2020 6:15 PM IST

Raghuvansh Prasad Singh

AA Edit | Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, the mathematician whose formula...

Dr Singh, a PhD in mathematics and a former professor, had his political baptism in the Jayaprakash movement against...

15 Sept 2020 5:40 PM IST

Some Republican leaders, including House Minority Whip, have written to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saying they suspect that Microsoft, which is in talks to buy the US operations of TikTok, though a US company, may be compromised.

US government considers Oracle's bid for TikTok, but China says deal...

The bid would be handled by a government panel that reviews foreign transactions for national security concerns.

15 Sept 2020 5:32 PM IST

A health worker collects a nasal sample from a woman for COVID-19 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test, at old Civil Hospital in Gurugram. PTI photo

India's corona battle far from over: Health minister Harsh Vardhan

COVID-19 biorepositories have been setup through which over 40,000 samples have been made available to researchers

15 Sept 2020 12:23 PM IST