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

Fake news is winning the war against facts

Extensive research by the BBC World Service has thrown light on what India has known for a while as an incipient problem...

14 Nov 2018 3:50 AM IST

Gali Janardhan Reddy

Fresh blow to BJP in Karnataka

The party has tried hard, and failed, to rid itself of the corruption tag brought on by Mr Reddy and former Karnataka CM...

13 Nov 2018 1:17 AM IST

CRPF personnel help an elderly voter to reach a polling station in Sukma district. (Photo: PTI)

In Naxal belt, faith in democracy lives on

In India's Naxal heartland, a major exercise in democracy came through reasonably well on Monday, with people shedding...

13 Nov 2018 1:12 AM IST

Riding the Tipu tiger

In the recent Ramanagara bypoll, the JD(S) couldn't have won without the Congress' 35,000 Muslims.

12 Nov 2018 12:02 AM IST

BJP President Amit Shah speaks at a press conference in Hyderabad. (Photo: AP)

Manifestoes hit a new low in Assembly polls

In Chhattisgarh, the manifesto of the challenger Congress Party promises farm loan waivers and rice at Rs 1 per kilo.

12 Nov 2018 12:00 AM IST

Banning of letters of undertaking (LoUs) and letters of comfort (LoCs) by the RBI as trade finance instruments is likely to reduce financial flexibility of importers, a Fitch group company said on Wednesday.

India's NBFCs need funds

Most NBFCs are facing a drought-like situation as far as funding is concerned.

11 Nov 2018 12:03 AM IST

Maithripala Sirisena said he had ordered Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera to revoke his decision last week to overturn the 1979 law prohibiting the sale of any type of alcohol to women. (Photo: AP)

Sri Lanka President's actions undemocratic

The saddest development in this unseemly power struggle is how the democratic institution of Parliament has been...

11 Nov 2018 12:00 AM IST

The RBI has asked Axis Banks board to re-consider the decision to re-appoint Shikha Sharma as its MD and CEO for a fourth term.

Economic misadventure

The justification about flushing out fake notes that are thought to support terrorism also proved to be too fanciful.

10 Nov 2018 1:10 AM IST

Despite informal and regular contact between the Taliban and senior Afghan officials, there are no prospects of early public peace talks that could bring an end to the protracted war. (Representational Image)

Moscow Format step towards Afghan peace

Nor was India philosophically inclined to be in on such a venture.

10 Nov 2018 12:05 AM IST

President Donald Trump speaks before signing a USD 716 billion defense policy bill named for Senator John McCain Monday, in Fort Drum, New York on Monday. (Photo: AP)

A mixed bag in America

Of course, as it's no longer a one-party rule in the US Congress, the ability to stand up to Mr Trump's excesses is now...

9 Nov 2018 12:05 AM IST

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has written to Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, complaining about Gujarat government firm GSPC.

Will Naidu's fresh effort for anti-BJP front work?

It is useful to understand that the Andhra Pradesh leader did not use the word secularâ€, so favoured by non-BJP...

9 Nov 2018 12:00 AM IST

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Soccer cheer in Kashmir

The I-League permits players from anywhere to be a part of any club side.

7 Nov 2018 12:28 AM IST