The Indian economy is suffering following demonetisation and a shortage of cash made life increasingly difficult for Indians, the New York Times has said.


Indian economy suffering after note ban: New York Times


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In a major breakthrough, Manipur Police have identified the militant group that had been threatening local editors.


Outfit threatening Manipur editors identified


Author Monica Crowley, the US President-elect Donald Trump's pick for a top national security communications role, has been accused of plagiarizing large sections of her 2012 book.


Trump's top security pick plagiarized book?


Knives inside Metro coaches is an old decision and has nothing to do with Bengaluru mass-molestation incident, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) clarified on Friday, after misconstrued news reports across media.


Have allowed knives, but not for self-defence: Delhi Metro


Apple has removed the New York Times from its app store following a request from Chinese authorities claiming the app was in violation of regulations.


Apple removes New York Times app from China store


Facebook courted another controversy after an art historian claimed it blocked a photo of Italy's famous Neptune statue for being "sexually explicit". The social media giant later termed the censorship a mistake, media reports said.


Facebook blocks photo of nude Neptune statue, retracts


The Myanmar government on Tuesday blamed fabricated stories and incorrectly captioned pictures for creating misunderstanding about Rakhine state to the rest of the world.


Myanmar says Rakhine stories were 'fabricated'


A journalist has been found dead in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh district on Monday, the police said.


Journalist found dead in Jharkhand


Slain journalist Rajdeo Ranjan's wife Asha Ranjan has allegedly received life threats again over the case she has filed against former RJD MP and strongman from Siwan Mohmmad Shahabuddin in connection with the killing of her husband.


Slain Bihar scribe's wife 'got second threat call from Dubai'


Moscow criticized the cartoons published by French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo mocking the victims of the Russian military plane which crashed on Sunday with 92 passengers and crew on board.


Moscow criticizes Charlie Hebdo over cartoons of plane crash


At least four IIT Kharagpur alumni are in the Forbes 30 under 30 list, its director said on Thursday.


Four IIT Kgp alumni in Forbes 30 under 30 list


A prominent Turkish journalist was detained on Thursday after he tweeted against the government.


Turkish journalist detained for anti-government tweet


Millions of Indians, especially the honest and poor, became paupers overnight after Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes were suddenly scrapped on November 8, said veteran photographer K. Venkatesh who chronicled their saga through his camera over a month in a photo shoot.


A visual chronicle of India's cash-crunched aam admi


Facebook users in Bangkok were falsely alerted to an "explosion" in the Thai capital, after the social network activated its Safety Check feature.


Facebook Safety Check creates false alarm in Bangkok


In yet another attack on the BJP, ally Shiv Sena on Wednesday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to "yank off the undergarments (chaddi-banian) of the public" in the name of exposing "benami" properties in the country.


Now, don't strip public for 'benami' properties: Thackeray tells Modi


Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a female journalist and activist from her house in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said on Tuesday.


Gunmen kidnap woman journalist from home in Baghdad


Afghanistan's first female pilot Nilofar Rahmani has dismissed reports of her move to seek asylum in the US and reaffirmed her commitment to serve the country.


Afghanistan's first woman pilot denies she sought US asylum


Why is Aleppo in such heavy focus just when the Syrians have more or less wrested the eastern part of their biggest city from an assortment of extremist Jabhat Al Nusra and similar groups? The US, France, the UK, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Israel have consistently dignified these as "Syrian rebels". Turkey was a key member of this gang too but has switched sides after an attempted coup against President Tayyip Erdogan which he suspects had American origins. He travelled to Moscow outlining an Ankara-Moscow-Teheran axis. This, by the way, is a game -changing axis: major powers are meeting over Syria without US participation, for the first time.


Aleppo's brutalities will be more real without Western propaganda (Comment: Special to IANS)


The O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) has inaugurated India's first global media school that will foster inter-disciplinary learning to train and groom the next generation of media leaders, at the India International Centre here.


Jindal Global University opens school of journalism


The External Affairs Ministry's extensive use of social media to reach out to citizens got a further boost on Friday with the launch of a new service called Twitter Seva that will enable timely, transparent and large-scale response to citizens' tweets in real time.


External Affairs Ministry launches new Twitter Seva


The government on Friday dismissed as "factually misleading" a media report that the bodies of 150 persons from Telengana and Andhra Pradesh are lying in Saudi Arabia mortuaries and the bereaved families were unable to bring these home for the last rites since the Indian embassy was not helping.

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