Coimbare/Salem/Tirupur/Dharmapuri: Pressing the Centre to form the Cauvery Management Board (CMB), DMK and other political parties engaged in road and rail-roko protests across the city on Monday. Police arrested over 300 cadres of various parties.

At about 9 am, DMK cadre led by the MLA N Karthik assembled a

Keonjhar: Three people were killed and five others sustained severe injuries in an attack by the wild bear on Monday morning. The villagers killed the bear later on. According to forest officials, four people, Pandav Naik, Bhadaru Naik, Amina Naik and Rabi Naik of Khadiadiha village under Raghunathpur Grama Panchayat o

Kano (Nigeria): Boko Haram killed 20 people and scores of others in coordinated attacks overnight on a military camp and villages around the flashpoint northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, which they also tried to infiltrate across a defensive trench, officials said Monday.

The brazen operation -- which unfolded a

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia's government Monday pushed a law through parliament that makes "fake news" punishable with a maximum six-year jail term despite an outcry from critics worried it will be used to stifle dissent before elections.

The law targets foreign as well as local media, and is seen in part

Johannesburg: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, prominent anti-apartheid activist and the ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, died in a hospital on Monday after a long illness, her family said Monday. She was 81.

"She succumbed peacefully in the early hours of Monday afternoon surrounded by her family and loved ones," t

Washington: Facebook will likely need "a few years" to fix the problems uncovered by the revelations on the hijacking of private user data, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview released Monday.

Speaking to the news site Vox, Zuckerberg defended the company's business model and shot ba

Gaza City: Protests along the Gaza border with Israel have dwindled after the conflict's deadliest day in years, but both sides braced for further tensions Monday after Palestinians called for more demonstrations.

The death toll from Friday's violence along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel rose

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At least seven persons were killed and many injured in violence today as Dalit protesters blocked trains, clashed with police and set fire to vehicles across several states during a nationwide bandh against the alleged dilution of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, officials said.

While f

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Telugu news anchor committed suicide by jumping off the fifth floor of her apartment building here, police said on Monday.

V. Radhika Reddy, 36, who was associated with the V6 News channel, killed herself at Srivila Apartment in Moosapet on Sunday night.

A suicide note written in Telugu was f

New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi today slammed the RSS and the BJP for the plight of Dalits and said he saluted "brothers and sisters" from the community who have hit the streets to demand protection of their rights from the Modi government.

Gandhi's comments came as several Dalit orga