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Khartoum, Dec 21: Agitation resulting from soaring prices of bread and fuel claimed the lives of eight people across Sudan, local media reported on Thursday (local time). Emergency was imposed in the city of Gadarif, where six people were reportedly killed in clashes with the police. Furthermore, in Atbara city in eastern Sudan, two protesters died after police lobbed tear gas shells to disperse

Kozhikode, Dec 20: Even as the merchants, hotel owners, bus operators and cine exhibitors among others have decided to say no-to-hartals, a state-wide awareness-cum-declaration campaign is being organised by the Cochin-based Middle Path Organisation, on December 24 to highlight the need to "say no to hartal" and "overcome hartal fear". Being propagated through the social media, the campaign is

New York, Dec 19: Social media giant Facebook has been sharing its users' personal data, including private messages and contact information for users' friends, with some of the world's largest technology companies like Microsoft, Amazon, far beyond what it has publicly admitted, according to leaked internal documents. Facebook gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read users' private messages

New Delhi, Dec 19: Hamid Nihal Ansari, the software engineer who has returned home after spending six years in a Pakistani jail, met external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday and narrated his ordeal. An overwhelmed mother of Ansari, Fauzia hugged the external affairs minister expressing her gratitude over her son's return. "Mera Bharat mahaan, meri madam mahaan. Meri madam ne he kiya

Washington, Dec 19: A safety panel set up by US President Donald Trump in the wake of numerous school shootings recommended Tuesday that schools consider arming staff, using veterans as guards and reversing Obama-era guidelines. The Federal Commission on School Safety panel, led by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, was set up after the February massacre in Parkland, Florida, when a former student

New Delhi, Dec 19: Former Union minister P Chidambaram arrived at the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office for questioning in the INX Media money laundering case on Wednesday, official sources said. They said the senior Congress leader was asked to depose before the investigating officer (IO) of the case to record his statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). He arrived around

Noida, Dec 19: Five persons were arrested on Tuesday for their alleged roles in the mob violence and the cow slaughtering cases in Bulandshahr. Two people including a police officer were shot dead during the violence in the Uttar Pradesh city. Three of them have been arrested by the Bulandshahr police for their alleged involvement in the cow slaughtering case, while two accused were arrested by

Dec 19: The US regulator FAA has retained the highest aviation safety ranking for India, a senior official said Tuesday. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) carried out an audit of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in July this year. The official said that the FAA on Tuesday formally confirmed that India’s International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA) rating remains

New Delhi, Dec 19: Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said the relationship between the government and the RBI is like of "husband-wife" and the difference of opinions must be resolved in a manner that the two institutions work in harmony. The comments came against the backdrop of Urjit Patel resigning as RBI Governor earlier this month amid a tussle between the central bank and the

Chandigarh/Mumbai, Dec 19: It was an emotional reunion with his parents when 33-year-old Hamid Nehal Ansari, an Indian software engineer, entered India through Punjab's Wagah-Attari border with Pakistan, after six years on Tuesday evening. He had languished for years in a Pakistani jail after being caught while entering the neighbouring country and being charged with "spying". As soon as he