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Bollywood actor Sonu Sood has said filmmakers have started to approach him with lead roles in their films due to his philanthropic work for migrant workers during the coronavirus-induced lockdown. Earlier this year, Sood, known for films like "Dabangg",...

New York City is overhauling how it admits students to some of its most competitive public schools to make them less segregated by race and wealth, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Friday.

Media baron Rupert Murdoch received a dose of the COVID19 vaccine this week, a day before prominent opinion host Fox News's Tucker Carlson raised suspicion over the marketing strategy for the vaccine.

Farmer leader Shiv Kumar Kakka said discussions among unions are currently underway to decide their strategy, adding that they are also seeking legal opinion on the matter.

Florida officials acknowledged Friday that state servers appear to have been compromised by overseas hackers who gained entry by imbedding malicious code into networking software from a Texasbased software company, SolarWinds.

A teenage boy stepped in to save his mother from an attack by her husband, only to end up being fatally stabbed by the man, authorities said.

Senior officials from the United States, Australia, India, and Japan met virtually Friday as part of regular Quad consultations to advance a free, open, and inclusive Indo-Pacific region. Quad is the informal grouping of four major democracies in the regi...

At least 102 more people tested positive for COVID-19 in Assam on Friday, raising the tally in the state to 2,15,250, Health and Family Welfare Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. The death toll increased to 1,011 after a 78-year-old woman succumbed to t...

The U.S. government's attempt to prove Google has been using its dominance of online search to stifle competition and innovation at the expense of consumers and advertisers won't go to trial for nearly three years.

U.S. prosecutors on Friday charged a Chinabased executive at Zoom Video Communications Inc with disrupting video meetings commemorating the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown at the request of the Chinese government.

The virtual meeting took place in the midst of growing global concern over China's expansionist behaviour in the IndoPacific region. The Quad or Quadrilateral coalition comprises India, the US, Japan and Australia.

A CBI official said that the agency has registered a case against Hyderabad-based Transstroy (India) Ltd, its chairman and managing director Cherukuri Sridhar, Additional directors Rayapati Sambasiva Rao and Akkineni Satish, unknown public servants and un...

Aggressive competition on the Affordable Care Acts health insurance marketplaces has pushed Centene into a lower-than-expected 2021 earnings forecast.

Abhinav Shukla's past has come back to haunt him in Bigg Boss 14. Neha Kakkar is reportedly expecting her first child with Rohanpreet Singh. This and more in today's entertainment wrap.

Sources said the home secretary expressed the ministry’s “serious concerns” over security situation in the state and asked Bengal officers to maintain law and order at all costs. “The list of incidents in the last six months were put before the state," an...

Actress Nushrratt Bharuccha revealed in a recent interview that she broke down while shooting an intense scene for her upcoming horror film Chhori, directed by Vishal Furia.