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A farmer wearing a face mask listens to a speaker during an anti-government protest in Bengaluru. (AP)

DC Edit | Stop lying that India's Covid response has not been a...

The death of a minister must force the government to do a rethink on its Covid-19 response

25 Sept 2020 2:55 AM IST

National Conference president Farooq Abdullah speaks to the media at Parliament House in New Delhi, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. (PTI)

AA Edit | The reality in Kashmir is exactly as Dr Abdullah says it is

There is no stabilising centre left in the Valley now, thanks to communal fanaticism being propagated

25 Sept 2020 12:47 AM IST

Chinese authorities have not indicated whether they will agree to a transfer of TikToks technology to Oracle. But official newspapers criticised the proposed deal this week as bullying and extortion.

ByteDance applies for Chinese licence to sell TikTok stake to Oracle

Beijing tightened control over technology exports last month to gain leverage over Washington's bid to force a sale of...

25 Sept 2020 12:03 AM IST

TikToks petition speculated that the president was retaliating because of reports the app was used by his critics to snatch up tickets to a Trump rally in Tulsa to which they had no intention of goingan event which belly flopped with significantly fewer people in attendance.

Trump's order banning TikTok could be blocked by judge

Until July 1, when rumours of a ban first began to circulate, TikTok was adding some 424,000 new US users each day.

24 Sept 2020 11:31 PM IST

The app relies on software developed by US technology giants Apple and Google, and in a bid to assuage privacy concerns, holds all the data generated on peoples phones and allows the information to be deleted easily. (Photo | AFP)

Britain's delayed virus app launched in England and Wales, after...

The app uses Bluetooth to alert users if they spend 15 minutes or more within two metres of a user who subsequently...

24 Sept 2020 10:41 PM IST

Kashmiri lawyer Syed Babar Qadri, a prominent TV panellist, was shot dead in central Srinagar.

Lawyer, TV panellist Babar Qadri shot dead in Kashmir

Syed Babar Qadri had written about a threat to his life on Twitter

24 Sept 2020 10:26 PM IST

Farmers shout slogans as they march to protest against the Union governments agriculture reforms in Amritsar. (AFP)

Parsa | What is PM Modi afraid of?

The prime minister should have used the debate on farm bills to underscore their virtues

24 Sept 2020 9:53 PM IST

Sberbanks offerings include SmartMarket platform, on the lines of Apples AppStore and Google Play; virtual assistant Salute; TV streaming device SberBox; and SberPortal, Russias first multimedia smart display device that will go on sale in late 2020, and SberPrime subscriptions for films, TV series and songs in addition to grocery delivery service, like Amazon. (Wikimedia Commons - ÐÐ»Ð°Ð´Ð¸ÑÐ»Ð°Ð² Ð¤Ð°Ð»ÑŒÑˆÐ¸Ð²Ð¾Ð¼Ð¾Ð½ÐµÑ‚Ñ‡Ð¸Ðº)

Russian bank Sberbank enters tech space in major move to rival Google,...

The bank-turned-tech-firm is set to launch a host of digital products and services first in Russia and later abroad,...

24 Sept 2020 9:50 PM IST

The anticipated lawsuit against Google by the Justice Department could be the governments biggest legal offensive to protect competition since the ground-breaking case against Microsoft almost 20 years ago.

Antitrust case against Google gets ready as Trump administration seeks...

Lawmakers and consumer advocates say Google abuses its dominance in online search and advertising to kill competition...

24 Sept 2020 8:20 PM IST

County governments in the Seattle, St. Paul, Minnesota, and Nashville areas have used the Tyler Technologies software Socrata to share election data in the past, although it was not immediately clear whether they still do or how central the platform is to their election operations.

Cyber criminals hack tech company whose software is used by US state...

The extent of the breach is unclear, but the company Tyler Technologies told customers that it affected only internal...

24 Sept 2020 7:53 PM IST

A YouChoose 2020 interactive voting special will also walk people through the voting process using memes such as a tutorial comparing voting to following a recipe and an auto repair video that breaks down the nuts and bolts of voting. (Photo | AFP)

YouTube adds information panels to videos to give voters reliable info...

As most voters take to voting by post amid the pandemic, YouTube has put out videos on Mail-in Voting to combat posts...

24 Sept 2020 5:04 PM IST

National Conference President Farooq Abdullah at Parliament House during Monsoon Session, in New Delhi. PTI photo

Kashmiris rather have Chinese rule them: Farooq Abdullah

He accused PM Modi, of deceiving and keeping him in the dark about the Centre's plan to abrogate Article 370 and...

24 Sept 2020 4:51 PM IST