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Trinamul Congress leaders protest over Delhi violence at Parliament during the ongoing Budget Session in New Delhi on Monday. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Axing Question Hour lets government avoid accountability

Cancelling Question Hour deprives MPs of the lone device they have to exercise some control over the executive

4 Sept 2020 6:01 PM IST

AA Edit | A whistleblowers vindication

AA Edit | A whistleblower's vindication

In his speech at AMU, Khan, had called attention to the appalling absence of doctors and basic infrastructure in...

4 Sept 2020 5:08 PM IST

Currently, apps are automatically given a tracking code unless users of iPhones and other Apple devices go to the extra trouble of changing their privacy controls on their own. With iOS 14, Apple planned to make apps get explicit consent from users to track them to serve them ads according to their web use. (Photo | AFP)

Apple postpones unveiling privacy feature on iPhones as apps complain...

Facebook has said that the privacy feature in iOS 14 would deliver a blow to many apps at a time that they are...

4 Sept 2020 4:40 PM IST

Alain Cocq, suffering from an orphan desease of the blood, rests on his medical bed in his flat in Dijon, northeastern France. (AFP)

Frenchman to livestream own death in right-to-die case

Alain Cocq had written to president Macron to be permitted for euthanasia but he wrote back to him saying its not...

4 Sept 2020 4:18 PM IST

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel asked the Centre to dispatch seven CRPF battalions. (PTI Photo)

Chhattisgarh CM seeks seven more CRPF battalions, mobile towers to...

In the letter, Baghel has sought Centres cooperation for effective implementation of the states strategies to eliminate...

4 Sept 2020 4:05 PM IST

Chairman of Indias Reliance Industries Mukesh Ambani (L) looks at rows of produce during a visit to a Reliance Fresh supermarket in Hyderabad. (AFP Photo)

Reliance Retail in talks with Silver Lake for $1 billion stake sale

The investment, which would value Reliance Retail at about $57 billion, comes as company aims to sell about 10% in new...

4 Sept 2020 3:26 PM IST

Pro-democracy students raise a three-finger salute, a symbol of resistance, during a protest rally in front of Education Ministry in Bangkok, Thailand . (AP)

Thai students turn agitators for educational reform

Thailand's ministry has issued statement saying schools must respect freedom of speech, allowing protests as long as...

4 Sept 2020 3:24 PM IST

Ex-Congress MP Sajjan Kumar

Supreme Court dismisses ex-Congress MP Sajjan Kumar's bail interim...

Senior advocate Vikas Singh, appearing for Kumar, argued that interim bail be granted to Kumar on health grounds

4 Sept 2020 3:16 PM IST

Russian police carry opposition leader Alexei Navalny, center, from a demonstration against President Vladimir Putin in Pushkin Square in Moscow, Russia. (AP File)

NATO to have urgent meet on poisoning of Navalny

Western leaders have demanded answers from Kremlin after Berlin said there was evidence that he had been afflicted by...

4 Sept 2020 2:46 PM IST

Heavy to very heavy rains lashed isolated parts of Mumbai and neighbouring Thane, Palghar and Raigad districts in the last 24 hours. (PTI Photo)

Monsoon pattern changing in India: Himalayas, south to get more...

The researchers studied the Indian monsoon precipitation data of nearly five decades between 1971 and 2017

4 Sept 2020 2:25 PM IST

CBSE opposes in SC plea for postponement of compartment exams for 12th class. (AP Photo)

Class 12 compartment exam likely to be held by September end: CBSC...

The court, which asked CBSE to file a short affidavit in response of the plea, has now fixed the case for hearing on...

4 Sept 2020 2:11 PM IST