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San Fransisco, Dec 18: Facebook can determine where users are even if they opt out of having their whereabouts tracked, the company revealed in a letter sent to US senators. In the missive, which was widely shared on social media Tuesday, Facebook explained ways it can still figure out where people are after they have selected not to share precise location data with the company. The social network

New Delhi, Dec 18: Home minister Amit Shah said the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) would stand any legal scrutiny and that the “government is firm like rock on its implementation”. On the National Register of Citizens, which also has been on the government’s agenda, he said no timeline has been fixed for it. Speaking at Times Network India Economic Conclave 2019 in Mumbai on Tuesday, Shah said no

California, Dec 18: California has settled with an India-based technology company that it accuses of misclassifying foreign workers and related tax fraud, the state attorney general’s office said Tuesday. Infosys Limited, a business consulting, information technology and outsourcing company, and its subsidiary, Infosys BPM Limited, will pay California USD 800,000. The company brought in workers

New Delhi, Dec 17: Angry protesters demanding scrapping of the amended citizenship law torched several motor bikes, pelted stones at police and damaged public buses in Northeast Delhi's Seelampur area on Tuesday, in fresh violence in the national capital. Police resorted to baton charges and fired tear gas shells to disperse the protesters. Plumes of smoke billowed from at least two localities

Dec 7: Renowned Indian author Arundhati Roy urged the citizens of India to stand up against the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC). In a statement on the nationwide protests on CAA, the writer said on Monday that the government is set to “break the back of our Constitution and cut the ground from under our feet”. Roy spoke about

New Delhi, Dec 17: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition challenging the validity of the Centre's 26-year-old notification according minority status to five communities — Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis, saying religion must be considered pan-India. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde refused to entertain the PIL filed by BJP leader and lawyer Ashwini Kumar

Dec 17: Pakistan's former dictator Pervez Musharraf was on Tuesday sentenced to death in the high treason case by a special court here, becoming the first military ruler to receive the capital punishment in the country's history. A three-member bench of the special court, headed by Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth, handed Musharraf, 76, death sentence in the long-drawn high

Washington, Dec 17: Stressing that it is closely following the developments regarding the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in India, US State Department has appealed protestors to refrain from violence, and authorities to "protect and respect the right of peaceful assembly." "We are closely following developments regarding the Citizenship Amendment Act. We urge authorities to protect and respect the

Washington, Dec 17: Republican Donald Trump is this week likely to become the third US president to be impeached when the Democratic-led House of Representatives votes on charges stemming from his effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate political rival Joe Biden. Trump faces one charge of abusing his power by asking Ukraine to investigate Biden, a leading Democratic contender to oppose him in

New Delhi, Dec 17: Activists Harsh Mander, Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey, historian Irfan Habib, economist Prabhat Patnaik and some organisations on Monday approached the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 and sought direction to strike it down. The plea filed through advocate Prashant Bhushan sought direction to declare the Act as unconstitutional