The move assumes significance as a series of reports recently citing internal documents showed "a struggle with misinformation, hate speech and celebrations of violence" in India - Facebook's biggest market with over 40 crore users.
Mohamed Zia Salehi, chief of administration for the National Security Council, has been receiving money from the US intelligence service for years, the New York Times reported.
Trump paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years largely because he reported losing much more money than he made, the report said. The US president immediately dismissed the report as 'totally fake news'.
Leading American daily the New York Times is bringing the curtains down on its India-specific blog, less than three years after it launched the online feature that offered news and analysis about Indian politics, culture, business, sports and lifestyle.
Darul Uloom Haqqania madrassa, one of Pakistan's largest and oldest seminaries and dubbed as a 'university of jihad' by its critics for helping sow violence across the region for decades, has educated more Taliban leaders than any school in the world and its alumni now hold key positions in Afghanistan, according to a media report.
The story of gloom and doom continues to haunt the US economy. With advertising revenue going downhill, two of US newspaper majors -- The New York Times and The Washington Post -- plan another round of pay cuts and layoffs. Facing financial difficulties, the New York Times Company has imposed five per cent temporary pay cut for most employees and laid off 100 workers.
Quoting the company's Chief Financial Officer James M Follo, the report said real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield has been retained to act as its agent to secure financing, 'either in the form of a mortgage or a sale-leaseback arrangement'. The report said that the company's portion of the building is not currently mortgaged.
Pakistan-based terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Tayiba had the backing of the Islamic nation's spy agency Inter Services Intelligence, which shared intelligence with Lashkar and provided protection to it in the Mumbai terror attacks, a media report said on Monday.American intelligence and counterterrorism officials were quoted by the New York Times as saying that LeT has quietly gained strength in recent years with the assistance of Pakistan's ISI.
Jhumpa Lahiri becomes the only second writer of Indian origin to land at the top slot; the other is Salman Rushdie. In its fourth printing, Unaccustomed Earth could spend more than three months on the list. It could even sell one million copies in hardcover, setting a record for the writer.
The WHOS has long held that the coronavirus is spread primarily by large respiratory droplets when an infected person coughs or sneezes.
'Hackers from China and UK were involved in the October 12 power outage,' Maharashtra power minister tells Rediff.com.
Vanessa has filed for an uncontested divorce.
The deal, the Times says, would come as the Times Company moves to raise money amid flagging advertising sales and approaching deadlines to pay back hundreds of millions of dollars of debt over the next two years. The company has put its stake in the Boston Red Sox up for sale and said last year that it would borrow as much as $225 million against its new headquarters in Manhattan through a sale-leaseback agreement.
A report in the New York Times said a fake news story prompted Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif to threaten to go nuclear.
The entrepreneur, who draws a minimum wage, won't be paid if he doesn't meet ambitious goals. But...
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Hakimullah Mehsud and three others were killed in the US drone attack in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal area near the Afghan border on Friday.
Born in pre-partition Lahore to a well-off Punjabi family in 1934, Mehta lost his eyesight when he was three years old to meningitis. He, however, did not let his impairment get in the way of a flourishing career or stop him from showcasing his literary prowess to the world.
The Times group is in talks with W P Carey and Company that specialises in sale-lease deal, the New York Times said, adding under the deal, the group would sell the 19 floors it currently occupies in the building except those six, it leases to other tenants. The company would continue to occupy and manage its floors and would have the right to buy back the space at a predetermined price when a 10-year-lease expires, company's spokeswoman Catherine J Mathis said.
The five per cent stake acquisition would be subject to statutory approvals and respective board approvals, the company added. Earlier, Deccan Chronicle was reported to be in the lookout for selling 5 to 8 per cent in Sieger Solutions, the owner of the Deccan Chargers IPL team to a strategic investor.
10 things you should know about the new (and 1st Indian-origin) editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair.
American media has taken a critical view of his accomplishments, saying his flagship 'Make in India' drive is "so far mostly hype."
CHAIN MIGRATION must end now, Trump had tweeted ion November.
Financial services firm Goldman Sachs has paid a large chunk of the nearly $30 million legal fees for its former board member Rajat Gupta's defence, a media report said.
Narayanan said she did not have an opinion about Trump's immigration policies and added that she found out that the ceremony aired during the Republican Convention "only when an excited friend called her later that night and told her she was on television," the report said.
Trump denied the allegations and said he would sue the NYT if it reported them.
the investigation began before Standard
The success of Gujarat has today put it in a place where it can negotiate and navigate international relations of direct economic consequence to it without being held back by the timidity in New Delhi, says Shashi Shekhar.
A $28,500 deposit was made to the account of slain gunman Syed Farook, a media report has said.
He was illegally probing a 2014 Delhi rape case using the victim's medical records to find out if it was a ploy by Ola to sabotage Uber's operations
The Swiss Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) said it had blocked accounts at several banks in Switzerland after police arrested some of the most powerful figures in global soccer on Wednesday in US and Swiss corruption cases.
Support for the dreaded Haqqani network across the militant group's historical stronghold in eastern Afghanistan is gradually turning into "resentment" as local leaders say the Haqqani supremo's war is for "Pakistani rupees and power" and they cannot follow him "blindly".
A deputy leader of Al Qaeda's branch in the Indian subcontinent, who was seen as a "rising star" in terrorist circles, died in an American drone strike in Pakistan in January that also killed an American and Italian hostage, according to a media report.
The report added that Anbang, which has close ties to the Chinese state, has seen its aggressive efforts to buy hotels in the US slowed amid concerns raised by Obama administration officials who review foreign investments for national security risk.
Financial services provider Citigroup is under pressure from federal banking regulators for shuffling its board, including the replacement of its chairman, amid concerns whether chief executive Vikram Pandit will retain his job, a media report says.
To build one's political and ideological arguments on the dead bodies piling up outside our crematoriums is despicable and breaches the basic tenet of human civility, argues Vivek Gumaste.
Even though this year's Nobels have come in for some criticism, in one field at least, the committee seems to have got it absolutely right.
The reasons why American journalism is against the Tata Nano are obvious. The Nano was 'not invented here (in the United States).'
No, it is NOT because Shah Rukh Khan now has more Twitter followers!
The effects of creating 'baiting crowds' on social media, and their use by politicians, have diluted the civilising processes of parliamentary democracy, says Deepak Lal.
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