Facebook has clearly told US Attorney General William Barr that the social networking giant will neither remove encryption from its messaging apps nor will provide law enforcement agencies access to its encrypted services.

"As a company that supports 2.7 billion users around the world, it is our responsibility to use the very

WhatsApp will stop working on millions of older mobile devices globally as the company has withdrawn support for such phones.

The users on Windows Phones will be locked out forever after December 31, said Facebook.

"WhatsApp will stop working on millions of phones in the next couple of months as the company wit

The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the felling of 452 trees for the construction of an additional track for the railway line connecting Delhi to Agra via Mathura, provided the mandatory compensatory afforestation is also undertaken.

A bench headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde and comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and S.A. Nazee

With an aim to double the farmers' income, the Narendra Modi government has doubled the agriculture budget in its first tenure, said Minister of State for Agriculture Kailash Choudhary in the Parliament.

On Tuesday, Shiv Sena MP Shrikant Eknath Shinde asked the minister about the roadmap of the government on doubling the farme

National Security advisor Ajit Doval has sent a letter of appreciation to Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary R.K. Tiwari for his "commendable effort in handling the situation in Uttar Pradesh, following the Ayodhya verdict".

The letter dated November 28, was released to the media on Wednesday.

Doval, in his let

Three members of a family have been arrested in connection with alleged honour killing of a 16-year-old girl, the police said.

According to the police, the minor had gone missing on December 3 from the Kaisthana Alampur village in Atrauli in Aligarh.

Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Atul Sharma said, "

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it proposes to appoint a retired Supreme Court judge to conduct an inquiry into the Hyderabad 'encounter' involving four persons allegedly accused in the rape and murder of a veterinarian.

Chief Justice S.A. Bobde said the court had initially asked former Supreme Court judge P.V. Reddi b

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi on Wednesday slammed the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh for its "indifference" towards the government schools and its students.

In a tweet in Hindi, she said the government schools in the state kept serving bad quality food to the children in the schools.

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A day after former Chief Minister and ex-Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi predicted that the Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party may reunite in the near future, the party (Sena) rejected it outright as "his personal views", here on Wednesday.

Senior Leader and Deputy Chairperson of the Maharashtra Legislative Council Nee

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday hit out at the Congress and some opposition parties, saying they are speaking the same language on Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 (CAB) as Pakistan.

Modi's remarks came at the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Parliamentary meeting here at the Parliament library building.
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