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$This file photo taken on October 23, 2019 shows a giant digital sign at Facebooks corporate headquarters campus in Menlo Park, California. - Facebook said on February 23, 2021 it will lift a contentious ban on Australian news pages \in the coming days\, after the government agreed to amend a world-first media law fiercely opposed by the tech giant. (Josh Edelson / AFP)$ World

Facebook to restore Australia news pages as deal reached on media law

Prime Minister Scott Morrison had angrily accused Facebook of making a decision to 'unfriend' Australia

23 Feb 2021 10:30 AM IST

$US President Joe Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, US Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, hold a moment of silence and candelight ceremony in honor of those who lost their lives to Coronavirus on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, February 22, 2021. President Joe Biden called the milestone of more than 500,000 US deaths from Covid-19 \heartbreaking\ and urged the country to unite against the pandemic. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)$ World

US in mourning over 500,000 COVID deaths, UK sees hope

Unlike his predecessor Donald Trump, who often sought to minimize the disease, Biden has made the pandemic his top...

23 Feb 2021 7:46 AM IST

The Sonipat-based JGU was recognised as an institution of eminence by the education ministry in 2019. (Image credit : www.jgu.edu.in/blog)

Naveen Jindal gives Rs.1,000 cr to expand Jindal Global University

Within 11 years of its founding, JGU has been ranked in the top 651-700 universities in the world

23 Feb 2021 7:08 AM IST

By threatening Twitter officials with jail and publicly contemplating the application of media laws to the social media, the government is putting on public display how spooked, rather than concerned, it is. (Photo: AFP)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Hashtag power: Twitter, govt in fight for...

The social media has two broad roles the organisational and the dialogic, and it is the former that is spooking nervous...

23 Feb 2021 4:48 AM IST

Novak Djokovic, one of the three knights of modern tennis, turned on his best game on the hardcourt at the Rod Laver arena he can call his own backyard for having won nine times and never having been beaten in an Australian Open final. (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | Cyborgs of tennis

If tennis is all about eliminating errors, then Djokovic is just that champion

23 Feb 2021 4:41 AM IST

DC Edit | Withdraw restrictions on academic webinars

Has the government gone totally insane? Or is this just a way of imposing thought control through the backdoor

23 Feb 2021 4:32 AM IST

The nations that follow India on the list of those with high taxes are all European nations, plus the United States and Japan. (Photo: AFP)

Aakar Patel | Who's to blame for Rs 100 petrol: Nehru, Indira or Modi...

India's consumers pay the highest rate of tax on the petrol and diesel that they consume

23 Feb 2021 4:13 AM IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah (PTI)

Amit Shah reviews Covid-19 situation

During the meeting, the ongoing vaccination drive and the steps needed to check the further spread of the virus were...

23 Feb 2021 1:13 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a rally during the second leg of his campaign for Bihar assembly elections, in Muzaffarpur district, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. (PTI Photo)

Modi calls upon voters to replace 'tustikaran' and 'tolabaji' with...

Centre gave Rs 1,700 crores to the TMC for water supply to all the households of which the state government spent only...

23 Feb 2021 1:09 AM IST

The SPG cover of the Gandhis (Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi) was replaced with the Z-plus security of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) by the government.

HC seeks response of Gandhis in National Herald case

All the seven accused including the Gandhis and others had denied the allegations

22 Feb 2021 1:57 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a webinar on effective implementation of Budget provisions in Defence sector, via video conferencing, in New Delhi, Monday, February 22, 2021. (PTI)

India committed to enhancing capabilities in defence manufacturing: PM

The prime minister listed a series of measures taken by his government to boost self-reliance in the defence sector

22 Feb 2021 1:07 PM IST

Telugu poet and writer Varavara Rao currently in custody over a case filed in connection with Elgar Parishad. (DC Photo)

Elgar case: Varavara Rao gets interim bail for 6 months

The HC said if it did not grant Rao medical bail, it would be abdicating its duty to protect the principles of human...

22 Feb 2021 12:54 PM IST