Data Bill: Global trade bodies raise privacy concerns

The coalition, which represents companies such as Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and IBM among others, has raised concerns over areas such as data localisation, government access to non-personal data and the classification of sensitive and critical data. The letter was addressed to Meenakshi Lekhi, head of the joint select committee.

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'Even with all this...': Woman uses drone to look for son's body in Mexico fiel...

Mexico has been overwhelmed by an escalation of narco violence that has left more than 60,000 people missing since 2006. Hidalgo’s son Roy is one of them, and she believes he could well be here, somewhere beneath the scrubland at her feet, in what she calls a likely “place of extermination.”

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4 Madhya Pradesh MLAs yet to return, unease in Congress over Rajya Sabha prospe...

The four MLAs who were yet to return include Bisahulal Singh, Hardeep Singh Dung and Raghuraj Kansana, all Congress legislators, and Surendra Singh Shera, an independent.

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'This is not a drill, no time for excuses': WHO's appeal to combat coronavirus

Coronavirus fears also affected the joyful celebration of Holi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other leaders said they wouldn’t attend Holi events and the Holi Moo Festival in New Delhi was cancelled.

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Yes Bank depositors in Mumbai rush to ATMs but unable to withdraw cash

At an ATM in south Mumbai’s Horniman Circle, with the RBI headquarters overlooking it, the shutters were pulled down.

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9,000 calls a day, tracking 4,500 international travellers: Delhi steps up vigil...

Since the first person from Delhi tested positive this Monday, meeting after meeting have been held on the ninth-floor of the Delhi secretariat and a four-room office in a Delhi-government office in Laxmi Nagar to decide how to control the spread of the virus

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How India's top political leaders responded to the riots in 1947

They were courageous under fire and united under pressure. Today’s leaders have much to learn from them

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