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Mark Zuckerberg today apologised for a "major breach of trust" with two billion users of Facebook and vowed to take steps to protect user data, as the social media giant was rocked by a data breach scandal. In his first public comments on the uproar over ...

'Sirisena will keep both Rajapaksa and Wickremesinghe on tenterhooks till the next general election due in 2020,' says Aditi Phadnis. IMAGE: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, right, with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Photograph: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters Opposition leader and former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa must be laughing his head off. Despite all the cases of corruption against him and his family, despite the harassment and the jail terms that members of his ...

It is possibly the first time that a regional party with not even enough numbers to move a no-trust motion has taken the lead, and others are following it.  The hints of a no-trust move first came from the YSR Congress, and the ruling TDP could not have stayed on when the question is another version of ‘Telugu atma gouravam’ – an issue that led N T Rama Rao to found the TDP in the 1980s, says N Sathiya Moorthy.   Image: TRS members hold placards during a protest ...

The focus of electoral politics were fixed on the north east; particularly on Nagaland and Meghalaya where voting for assembly elections took place on Tuesday. Early exit polls suggest an expansion for the BJP and its allies. In Nagaland, the two main parties ...

The writing is clearly on the wall. Generally, no single issue can substantially alter the outcome of an election. But, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s great gamble in splitting the Lingayat community could either make or break the Congress ...

How the Finance Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha when the no-confidence motion could not be taken up due to disruptions in Parliament, a Telugu Desam Party MP asked on Thursday. "Today is the fifth day that we have given a no-confidence motion to the ...

Twenty five years of Left Front rule in Tripura has come to an end, with the Bharatiya Janata Party -Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT) alliance winning a two-thirds majority in the North Eastern state. The alliance won 43 out of 59 seats whose ...

The BJP and Congress have blooded a select group of aggressive and articulate young leaders to drive their party agenda ahead of the big face-off in 2019. Who are they? Gautam Datt reports The wheel of Indian politics is spinning perhaps faster than at ...

'Nitish is now a helpless junior ally of Hindutva.''He just cannot think of reining in the hoodlums raging, marauding and killing in the mohallas,' argues Mohammad Sajjad. IMAGE: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, flanked by Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi and assembly Speaker Vijay Chaudhary, leads a human chain against child marriage and dowry in Patna, January 21, 2017. Photograph: PTI Photo Bihar, and many parts of West Bengal, close to Bihar, has been engulfed in communal tension and violence.