Lata Mangeshwar is upset with rumour-mongers who circulated rumours of her death.
An Indian-origin man, who called himself a "terrorist", has been found guilty by a jury of threatening to blow up a medical firm in Connecticut and faces up to 10 years in prison.
The family of Ahmed Mohamed, the Texas teenager who was arrested after a teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb, has demanded $15 million (Rs 99 crore) in compensation and written apologies from Irving city's mayor and police chief, their lawyers have said.
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There have been media reports that the LJP was unhappy over the return of the Hindustani Awam Morcha-Secular into the National Democratic Alliance fold and contempleting fielding candidates against JD-U nominees.
In its response to the IT Ministry's missive, WhatsApp has said false news, misinformation and spread of hoaxes are issues that need to be dealt with collectively, by government, civil society and technology companies working together.
Contrary to Anna Hazare team's description of government's Lokpal Bill draft as a "very big hoax", Swami Agnivesh, an associate of the Gandhian's anti-graft campaign, on Friday termed the latest draft as an "improvement" of its 2010 draft.
The 1st article of impeachment, abuse of power, was on party lines with 230 to 197 votes, while the 2nd, obstruction to the Congress, was voted 229-198.
Rejecting contention that Lokpal proposed by it was aimed at creating a 'parallel' government, veteran social activist Anna Hazare on Wednesday said he will undertake fast-unto-death from August 16 and would not be go back on his decision even if the government makes any request.
A SpiceJet aircraft with 179 people on board was today grounded after a foreign traveler claimed that there was a bomb inside the plane, forcing authorities to evacuate all the Delhi-bound passengers. However, after a thorough search of the plane, authorities at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu said that it was a hoax.
One of Modi's foremost critics will contest if he is the common candidate of a united Opposition, but fielded by the Congress.
In an advisory, the Home Ministry has urged the states and UTs to 'keep a watch for early detection of rumours of child lifting and initiate effective measures to counter them'.
A Dubai-bound Emirates flight with 356 passengers, including crew, on board was grounded in Mumbai after a terror alert call, an airport official said.
Shiv Sena Bhavan at Dadar in central Mumbai, the political party's headquarters, was evacuated on Wednesday afternoon following a bomb scare on the premises, which later turned out to be a hoax, sources told rediff.com.
Asserting that the Articles of Impeachment introduced by the House Judiciary Committee are not recognisable under any standard of constitutional theory, interpretation or jurisprudence, Trump said they include no crimes, no misdemeanours and no offenses whatsoever.
Trump's diatribe against India in his speech on the Paris Agreement is hard to explain, especially when a Modi-Trump meeting is supposedly on the cards, says Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
Andrews airbase, the United States military facility was placed on lockdown on Thursday after an active shooter reportedly barricaded inside the medical center.
An anonymous caller threatening to blow up two Metro stations, including at the busy Rajiv Chowk in the heart of Delhi, on Sunday triggered a scare in the National Capital Region, prompting authorities to step up security at these installations.
Mumbai's famous Taj Mahal Hotel and the domestic and international airport terminals are on high alert after receiving a terror threat.
Trump and the White House has described this as an impeachment hoax. White House asserted that the president has done no wrong.
Nine schools in Australia's largest city Sydney in New South Wales were evacuated on Monday after receiving bomb threats, days after several educational institutions were locked down in the same province following similar threats.
The rumour about Facebook planning to charge for its content appears to have come from a hoax email circulated on the site, The Telegraph reported.
'Ludicrous they might be, but they are not without threats -- much like letters that appear suddenly in homes of those opposing the government.' 'One must exercise some caution before believing in them,' says Uttaran Das Gupta.
The Republican-majority Senate voted 52-48 to acquit him of abuse of power and 53-47 to acquit him of obstruction of Congress, thus preventing the Democratic move to overthrow him, for which they required two-thirds of votes in the 100-member House.
Security personnel at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on Tuesday went into a tizzy after a bomb threat call was received by an airline at its airport office.
The New York police last week arrested Atul Shah, 48, and Mahaveer Kankariya, 43, partners of Dialite Imports, a wholesale diamond business in Manhattan, and charged them with staging a robbery at their store to collect insurance money.
A company based in Jaipur has sprung up overnight with a Rs 888 Android phone - Docoss X1.
Police are also roping in fact-checking websites to verify rumours on social media and debunk fake news.
Sex must be enjoyed equally by both you and your partner and consent is pivotal before getting into the act, says Gaurav Gupta.
'I will always remember her as a very beautiful human being.' 'God seems to summon such people a little quickly.'
A Hyderabad-bound Indigo flight received a bomb threat at the Indira Gandhi International airport on Sunday night, forcing authorities to ground the aircraft and evacuate the passengers.
An Australian court on Thursday rejected the 2Day FM station's petition, paving the way for the country's media watchdog to conclude its probe into handling of a royal prank call by the Sydney-based radio station that led to the death of an Indian-origin nurse in the United Kingdom.
Rubbishing reports that he had made a threatening phone call to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari after Mumbai strikes, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee today regretted Islamabad giving credibility to a "hoax" call and said it was a bid to divert attention from the fact that Pakistani elements had launched "attack on India".
A Taiwanese cyber security expert has claimed to have compromised server of China based smartphone maker Xiaomi but the company called it a hoax.
Amandeep Singh, a general internist at Monroe Hospital in Indiana, recently received the death threat through a text message on his cell phone by the unknown individual who claimed to have murdered the number's previous owner, community leaders said.
An e-mail threatening to blow up major information technology firms in Bengaluru has created a flutter in the city. While security has been increased at all IT installations in Bengaluru, the police have traced the mail to a youth in the Bharatinagar area of the city.
A mock drill at the Mumbai domestic airport on Wednesday afternoon to test the preparedness of security agencies, led to a panic situation.
Panic was triggered at the Sai Baba Temple in South Delhi on Thursday evening after police received an anonymous telephone call threatening to blow up the shrine, but it later turned out to be hoax.A temple administration official said that they came to know about the threat call after police teams reached the spot and started carrying out searches. The temple, which is very popular among the denizens, was immediately evacuated.
A man armed with a gun, a hatchet and pepper spray was shot dead inside a Tennessee movie theater on Wednesday after police traded gunfire with the suspect.
After Sessions delivered the news, "the president slumped back in his chair," the report said, citing notes from Hunt. "Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I'm f****d," Trump said, according to the report.
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