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Rapper Kanye West. (AP File)

Kanye West sues Ohio election head to get on November ballot

West's emergency filing comes days after nearly 15,000 signatures and other paperwork he submitted earlier this month...

27 Aug 2020 3:08 PM IST

Mahesh Manjrekar

Mahesh Manjrekar reaches out to Mumbai Police after extortion messages...

An offence has been registered and transferred to the police's Anti-Extortion Cell

27 Aug 2020 3:02 PM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson (C) takes part in an induction session in the gymnasium with year sevens as he visits Castle Rock school, Coalville, central England. (AFP)

Europe is going back to school despite recent virus surge

While the US' back-to-school saga has been politicized and chaotic, European governments have faced less of an uproar

27 Aug 2020 2:52 PM IST

A Los Angeles Unified School District student attends an online class at Boys & Girls Club of Hollywood in Los Angeles. (AP)

A third of world's children affected by lack of access to remote...

The highest number of children affected by region were in South Asia, at least 147 million, according to the report

27 Aug 2020 2:31 PM IST

Vijay Mallya filed an application seeking leave to appeal in the UK Supreme Court. (PTI Photo)

Supreme Court reserves its verdict on Vijay Mallya's review petition...

A bench comprising justices U U Lalit and Ashok Bhushan reserved its order after hearing arguments in the case.

27 Aug 2020 2:28 PM IST

The release of internal emails, where Google engineers say the location tracking of users who disabled the feature was misleading, is embarrassing for a company that tries to build trust with billions of users of free services such as maps and online search, which in turn provide the personal information Google can use to target ads. Those ads generated more than $130 billion in revenue last year alone. (Photo | AFP)

'Location off should mean location off', Google engineers said after...

After the AP article two years ago, Google made changes to its privacy settings to make it easier for users to conceal...

27 Aug 2020 2:19 PM IST

Aamir Khan faces flak for endorsing Chinese brands, closeness to...

Aamir Khan has long been a hate figure for India's Hindu far-right, but now they have a new line of attack his massive...

27 Aug 2020 2:09 PM IST

Next generation of fake news will be empowered by Artificial Intelligence and be far more sophisticated, and even more disastrous.

Fake news more dangerous than paid news; media must follow...

Several countries all over the world have been affected by the fake news menace

27 Aug 2020 1:44 PM IST

Sudha Sundari Narayanan (third from left), a software developer from India, was among those sworn in as American citizens. (via Twitter handle @welprich)

Indian who sworn-in as US citizen by Trump didn't know it was being...

Narayanan said she did not have an opinion about Trump's immigration policies and that she found out the ceremony was...

27 Aug 2020 1:36 PM IST

The Auschwitz museum, a Holocaust site, has become a symbol of Nazi Germanys genocide of six million European Jews, with one million killed at the camp between 1940 and 1945. (Photo | Pixabay - John Ondreasz)

New trend on TikTok with users playing Holocaust victims hurtful,...

Some videos are dangerously close or already beyond the border of trivialisation of history, the Auschwitz Memorial said...

27 Aug 2020 1:26 PM IST

Uber launched 24x7 Auto Rentals service. (AFP Photo)

Uber launches 24x7 auto rentals service in six cities

Uber launched a comprehensive set of safety measures, such as the Go Online Checklist, a mandatory mask policy for both...

27 Aug 2020 1:22 PM IST

The DF-26B and DF-21D missiles fired Wednesday targeted an area between the southern island province of Hainan and the Paracel Islands.(AP File)

China fired 'carrier killer' missile in disputed sea to warn US:...

Disputes over control of the South China Sea, one of the world's busiest trade routes, are a growing irritant in...

27 Aug 2020 1:07 PM IST