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Following a conversation between Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and President Donald J Trump, Microsoft is prepared to continue discussions to explore a purchase of TikTok in the United States, the company said in a statement. With TikTok, Microsoft will be making its first foray into social media, a sphere that has grown as people seek to connect amid the restrictions imposed by the pandemic on physical interactions. (Photo | AFP)

Microsoft keen on buying TikTok US, hopes to convince Trump against...

Tech giant says will build on the experience TikTok users love, while adding world-class security, privacy, and digital...

3 Aug 2020 10:54 AM IST

Four alleged members of the Shiite Muslim fundamentalist group Hezbollah are on trial over the huge Beirut suicide bombing that killed Sunni billionaire Hariri and 21 other people. (AFP)

Verdict due this week in assassination of Lebanon ex-PM Hariri

The judgment harks back to an event that changed the face of Middle East, leading to protests that pushed Syrian forces...

3 Aug 2020 10:30 AM IST

Digvijay Singh on Sunday bringing in Rahul Gandhi directly, saying the former Congress chief should be more active inside Parliament and undertake yatras across India. (PTI Photo)

Old vs young war within Congress flares up

Another senior leader Manish Tewari, known to be close to Gandhi, blamed the UPA-2 for the Congress' 2014 defeat

3 Aug 2020 9:56 AM IST

A protester holds a sign depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a protest a against him outside Prime Minister residence in Jerusalem. (AP)

Israel's Netanyahu rails at media over protests against him

Demonstrators are calling for the resignation of the long-serving leader, who is on trial for corruption charges

3 Aug 2020 9:53 AM IST

DCGI gives nod to Serum Institute for phase 2, 3 trials of Oxford COVID-19 vaccine. (AP Photo)

Serum-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine gets DCGI grant for human trials in...

The panel had also recommended that the clinical trial sites which have been proposed for the study be distributed...

3 Aug 2020 9:09 AM IST

NASA astronaut Robert Behnken gives a thumbs up to onlookers as he boards a plane at Naval Air Station Pensacola to return him and NASA astronaut Douglas Hurley home to Houston a few hours after the duo landed in their SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft off the coast of Pensacola. (NASA via AP)

SpaceX capsule with NASA astronauts makes first splashdown in 45 years

The next mission, dubbed 'Crew-1', is set to take-off by late September, and its crew will spend six months on the space...

3 Aug 2020 9:07 AM IST

The restrictions imposed on Kashmir media since the abrogation of Article 370 have made the medias task infinitely more difficult. (Representational image: PTI)

Mutilation of J&K: Kashmir's journalists refuse to be stenographers

Journalists in J&K are resisting a media policy that seeks to empower officials to certify what is 'fake news'

3 Aug 2020 3:45 AM IST

Union home minister Amit Shah enters Medanta Hospital in Gurugram to be admitted after testing postive for COVID-19 on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020. (PTI)

COVID-19 takes grip on Indian politicians, easily overhauls 18 lakh...

Amit Shah, Yediyurappa, Shivraj Chouhan, Tamil Nadu governor Banwarilal Purohit are COVID-19 positive

3 Aug 2020 1:16 AM IST

Indian Army trucks move towards Ladakh on the Manali-Leh highway in Kullu on July 31, 2020. (PTI)

India holds out for total Chinese pullback in Ladakh

In day-long talks between corps commanders, India demands a return to status quo ante of May 5

3 Aug 2020 12:19 AM IST

In what is seen as an indication that most of the disqualified legislators who joined BJP on Thursday will be partys candidates for December 5 bypolls, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa called them as future MLAs and Ministers, as he assured of keeping up the promise made to them. (Photo: File)

Karnataka CM Yediyurappa tests positive for COVID-19

The chief minister said on twitter that he has been recommended hospitalisation

3 Aug 2020 12:12 AM IST

India seeks new preferential treatment from US on drugs, other goods. (AFP Photo)

American countries look towards India for cheaper generic medicine

Ecuadorean envoy pointed out that generic medicine 'can cost up to 10 times more' in South/Latin America than in India

2 Aug 2020 6:41 PM IST

A cyclist passes a group of police and soldiers patrolling the Docklands area of Melbourne. (AFP)

Australia's second-biggest city imposes overnight curfew

Victoria, which is Australia's second most populated state, declared state of disaster over spike in new coronavirus...

2 Aug 2020 6:13 PM IST