US SC upholds law banning TikTok, app to be removed from stores

The US Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that requires TikTok’s China-based parent company to divest from it, thus paving the way for the popular app to be banned from the US beginning......

TikTok has interfered in polls, including India: US senators

US senators have alleged that TikTok, owned by the Chinese Communist Party, has interfered in elections of various countries, including India, and called for extending the deadline for a ban on the......

Maha Kumbh set for auspicious start on 'Paush Purnima' on Monday

Maha Kumbh 2025 -- a 45-day event billed as the biggest gathering of humans in one place -- is all set to begin Monday with the first major bathing ritual or 'Shahi Snan' on the auspicious occasion......

MVA manifesto promises period leaves, free cervical cancer vaccine

The opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi on Sunday released its manifesto for the Maharashtra assembly polls, promising free cervical cancer vaccines for girls aged 9 to 16 and and two optional leave days......

Cabinet nod for changes in Social Security Bill

The government on Thursday approved certain amendments to expand the ambit of a bill providing social security schemes to unorganised workers. The amendments in the Unorganised Sector Workers'......

Clear social security bill soon: Labour body

Anguished over the Union Cabinet referring the ambitious Social Security Bill to a group of ministers, members of a tripartite labour committee on Friday demanded that a legislation to provide......

Gig workers Bill: Unease among startups

A group comprising top tech startups and unicorns has raised several “serious concerns” over a platform-based gig workers Bill proposed by the Karnataka government, saying it would hurt......

The real moral failure in the food security Bill debate

A widening food entitlement under the notoriously leaky public distribution system, rather than through direct cash transfers, is self-evidently a giant step backward in rationalising the provision......