Amid increased scrutiny of Facebook's role in generating hatred towards vulnerable communities across the world, the social media giant's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg has admitted the platform needed to do do more to protect civil rights.


Need to do more to advance civil rights: Facebook COO


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Calling the Transgender Persons Bill, 2018, "flawed", the transgender, intersex and gender non-confirming community from across the country on Tuesday demanded withdrawal of the Bill from consideration in the Rajya Sabha.


Withdraw Transgender Persons Bill, demands community


The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea of National Students' Union of India's Sunny Chillar challenging the election of former Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) president Ankiv Baisoya.


HC rejects plea challenging election of DUSU president


The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought to know whether a person can be kept in jail indefinitely for committing a murder, even if he has alreaday served the sentence.


Can a murder convict be kept indefinitely in jail, asks HC


The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the Centre and Delhi government to respond to a plea seeking permission to put up a statue of former South African President Nelson Mandela on a road named after him in the city.


HC seeks Centre response to plea seeking Nelson Mandela statue


Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said changes in Section 29A of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) may be required as the earlier amendment may have been "too wide" in relation to the definition of related parties.


Redefining 'connected parties' in Insolvency Code may be needed: Jaitley


A Delhi court on Tuesday granted bail to Manoj Prasad, an alleged middleman in a corruption case involving Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Director Rakesh Asthana.


Middleman in Asthana bribery case granted bail


The National Human Rights Commission on Tuesday sought a report from the Maharashtra government on the death of eight people in a fire at a hospital in Mumbai, while not ruling out negligence by the hospital administration.


NHRC seeks reports from Maharashtra, Labour ministry over hospital blaze


Hamid Nehal Ansari, the Mumbai man who was released from a Pakistani jail after six years for alleged espionage charges, crossed over to the Indian side at the Attari-Wagah border in Punjab on Tuesday.


Mumbai man, released form Pakistani prison, reaches India


A retired detective has sued Netflix and the filmmakers of hit series and Emmy award winner "Making a Murderer" for defamation.


Netflix faces defamation for 'Making a Murderer'


Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the government is aiming to bring 99 per cent of  items below the 18 per cent GST slab and warned of stringent action against defaulters of bank loan and fugitives.


Modi hints at GST concessions, warns of strict action against bank defaulters


A probe has been launched into allegations that black players in Chelseas youth system during the 1980s and 1990s were subjected to a "racist bullying culture" from staff members.


Probe launched into alleged racist abuse in Chelsea youth set-up


A Mumbai man, who spent around six years in a Pakistani jail on  espionage charges, has been released and will return home on Tuesday, an activist said here.


'Mumbai man released from Pakistani jail, heads home' (Lead, recasting intro)


West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said her government is equally considerate towards all minorities and the state never denies shelter to anyone.


We don't deny shelter to the needy: Mamata on Bengal


New Zealand will hold a referendum in 2020 to decide on the legalisation of recreational marijuana, Justice Minister Andrew Little announced on Tuesday, a week after Parliament gave the green light to its use for medicinal purposes.


New Zealand to hold referendum on recreational marijuana use


India on Monday expressed relief at Pakistan's decision to release on Tuesday an Indian national lodged in a Pakistani jail for six years on alleged espionage charges.


India relieved at release of Indian prisoner by Pakistan


After carrying out multiple search operations at several locations of foreign exchange dealers and agencies across the city last week, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is expecting the volume of monthly transactions to go up to "a few hundred crore" from the eastern metropolis, an official said here on Monday.


ED probing misuse of forex transactions in Kolkata


The Madras High Court on Monday banned the sale of medicines online till the central government notifies the regulations.


Madras High Court bans online medicine sales


Union Minister for Human Resource Development (HRD) Prakash Javadekar on Monday attacked the Congress for carrying out a "campaign full of lies" on the Rafale fighter jets purchase and demanded an apology from its president Rahul Gandhi.


Congress' campaign on Rafale was full of lies: Prakash Javadekar


Terming it as a case of justice finally delivered to the victims of one of the worst instances of communal violence in independent India, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh here on Monday welcomed the conviction of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case by the Delhi High Court.


Amarinder Singh hails conviction of Sajjan Kumar


The Modi government's gross mishandling of the situation in the Kashmir Valley is hurting India, the CPI-M said on Monday, adding that the killing of unarmed protesters by security forces was "unacceptable".

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