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Bhojpuri actress Anupama Pathak commits suicide. (Photo- Facebook)

Bhojpuri actress Anupama Pathak commits suicide at her residence in...

Pathak, 40, was found hanging at her rented flat on Sunday, police said

7 Aug 2020 10:30 AM IST

Sri Lankas President Gotabaya Rajapaksa (front) leaves a polling station after casting his ballot in the parliamentary election in Colombo. (AFP)

Rajapaksa brothers win by landslide in Sri Lanka's election

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa is likely to be sworn in the same position by his younger brother, President Gotabaya...

7 Aug 2020 9:56 AM IST

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday slammed the Central government as India crossed the 20 lakh COVID-19 positive cases. (PTI Photo)

Modi government gone missing: Rahul slams Centre as India crosses 20...

20 lakh-mark has been crossed, Modi government is missing, the Congress leader tweeted

7 Aug 2020 9:48 AM IST

Lebanese army soldiers stand guard in front of destroyed ships at the scene where an explosion hit on Tuesday the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon. (AP)

The ship with ammonium nitrate cargo was not meant to stop at Beirut

The chemicals came to Beirut on a leaky Russian-leased cargo ship that, according to its captain, should never have...

7 Aug 2020 9:28 AM IST

Former Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan. (PTI Photo)

India must focus on protecting economy not on what rating agencies...

He said the RBI needs to focus on whether credit is reaching the stressed areas of the economy

7 Aug 2020 9:09 AM IST

The TikTok mobile application has been downloaded some 175 million times in the US and more than a billion times around the world, according to the order. (AFP)

Trump passes executive orders to ban Chinese apps TikTok, WeChat

'At this time, the order takes action to address one mobile application in particular, TikTok,' he said.

7 Aug 2020 8:40 AM IST

Nintendo Switch sales, both of the handheld machines and software games, were zooming amid the pandemic. The various online games in its lineup, including those for mobile devices, were also drawing more people. (Photo of Nintendo Switch Lite | Nintendo.com)

Nintendo achieves profit target as more people take to gaming during...

Sony Corp., which too has a game unit with its PlayStation series, also reported positive results earlier this week.

6 Aug 2020 8:50 PM IST

TikToks forced sale of its US business to an American company could fuel calls in many nations for local control over internet platforms and data storage within their own national borders.

Forcing TikTok to sell its US business could end up killing the open...

Analysts say the deal could result in data nationalism and have far-reaching effects.

6 Aug 2020 8:19 PM IST

Zhang Yiming finds himself under enormous pressure as he tries to assure the world that TikTok is safe and secure, while also protecting his image at home by not appearing to give in to demands from the West. (Photo | bytedance.com)

ByteDance boss in a predicament over Trump's ultimatum on TikTok

Zhang Yiming has been given just six weeks to find a buyer for the app in the United States or have it banned in its...

6 Aug 2020 7:05 PM IST

A group of children and parents protested the hybrid reopening of schools because they would prefer children to attend school five days a week, as before the pandemic. How likely children are to contract or spread the coronavirus has become a deeply contentious issue in the US, with reopening schools essential to enabling many parents to go back to work. Children are known to be far less likely to fall seriously ill or die from the virus: less than one percent of children who test positive for COVID-19 end up dying, according to a Europe-wide study released in June. (Photo | AP)

Trump's Facebook, Twitter post removed for saying children 'almost...

Action taken over 'misinformation', but the American Academy of Pediatrics says children appear to transmit COVID-19...

6 Aug 2020 5:25 PM IST

Sensex surged 362 points on Thursday after the RBI left interest rates unchanged. (PTI Photo)

Sensex ends 362 points higher after RBI policy, Nifty tops 11,200

Tata Steel was the top gainer in the Sensex pack, rising around 4 per cent

6 Aug 2020 4:59 PM IST

Prosecutors allege that Graham Ivan Clark, 17, was the mastermind of the scheme that hacked Twitter accounts of celebrities and politicians, and sent tweets from their accounts seeking payments of Bitcoin, the Tampa Bay Times reported. After multiple halts, the judge ultimately declined to lower Clarks bail, which was set at $725,000 when he was arrested on Friday.

Twitter hacking suspect's Zoom hearing interrupted by porn and rap

The Zoom users who disrupted the hearing had of course disguised their names.

6 Aug 2020 4:44 PM IST