Day: May 9, 2019

Co-Founder Chris Hughes: Time to break up Facebook

11:10 pm May 9, 2019

San Francisco: Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes says it’s time to break up the social media behemoth. He says in a New York Times opinion piece that CEO Mark Zuckerberg has allowed a relentless focus on growth to crush competitors and “sacrifice security and civility for clicks.” Hughes says Facebook is a monopoly and should be forced to spin off WhatsApp and Instagram. He says future acquisitions should be banned for […]

Centre to deploy over 71,000 security personnel to ensure violence-free polls on May 12 in Bengal

11:04 pm May 9, 2019

New Delhi: The Centre will deploy over 71,000 security personnel to ensure violence-free elections in eight Lok Sabha constituencies of West Bengal on May 12, Home Ministry officials said Thursday. Polling will be held in Tamluk, Kanthi, Gathal, Jhargram, Medinipur, Purulia, Bankura and Bishnupur constituencies on Sunday. To avoid improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the Maoist-affected Jangalmahal area of Bengal, security […]

Actor Karan Oberoi sent to 14-day judicial remand

10:51 pm May 9, 2019

Mumbai: Television actor Karan Oberoi, arrested on charges of raping and blackmailing a woman in suburban Oshiwara, was on Thursday remanded in 14-day judicial custody by a Mumbai court. Oberoi, 40, who acted in some television serials and appeared in commercials, was arrested on Sunday after the woman, who was in a relationship with him […]

Four men arrested by Haryana police for cheating people by cloning ATM cards

Man held for ATM fraud in Ghaziabad

10:43 pm May 9, 2019

Ghaziabad: An employee of a company depositing cash in ATMs was arrested Thursday for allegedly embezzling Rs 73 lakh. Cash custodian Rajeev Sachan, along with his accomplices, had on April 23 embezzled the money that was supposed to be deposited in ATMs in the city. An FIR was lodged by the security head of the […]

Congress wave in Delhi, undercurrent against BJP: Maken

10:39 pm May 9, 2019

New Delhi: A Congress wave is “sweeping” the national capital, former Union minister and New Delhi parliamentary seat candidate Ajay Maken claimed on Thursday, saying there was an “undercurrent against the BJP”. The former Delhi Congress chief is pitted against BJP’s sitting MP from New Delhi Meenakshi Lekh and AAP’s Brijesh Goel in a triangular […]