WASHINGTON — A tiny fraction of Twitter users spread the vast majority of fake news in 2016, with conservatives and older people sharing misinformation more, a new study finds. Scientists examined more than 16,000 U.S. Twitter accounts and found that 16 of them — less than one-tenth of […]
PERRIS, Calif. — A Southern California couple got some unexpected help delivering their baby. Amanda Tadeo of Perris went into labor Jan. 16, according to a Riverside County news release about the birth. Amanda and her husband Oswaldo Tadeo were racing to the hospital when they realized they […]
New Delhi : Eminent Hindi author and essayist Krishna Sobti died Friday in Delhi, family sources said. She was 93. She breathed her last in a Delhi hospital this morning, where she was admitted for the last two months, Ashok Maheshwari, a friend and managing director of Rajkamal Prakashan, […]
Bhubaneswar : Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday charged that the RSS imprint was evident everywhere in the BJP-led NDA government and that the outfit wants to penetrate and control all institutions in the country. “You currently have one institution called the RSS, mother of the BJP, which believes […]
NEW YORK — Following an expose that claimed Bryan Singer has seduced and molested several underage men, the film production company Millennium Films on Thursday said it is staunchly supporting the director. In a statement, Avi Lerner, founder and chief executive of Millennium, said that the company is […]
PANAMA CITY — Like many others from his poor, indigenous region of Panama, Raul Tugri left for the capital years ago in search of opportunities. He found work at a supermarket, but alcohol abuse sent his life into a tailspin and four years ago he was diagnosed with […]
Vadodara : An unemployed man allegedly killed his wife and then committed suicide in Gujarat’s Vadodara district, police said Friday. Manish Patel (49) and Rachna (44) were married for 20 years but their relationship had soured recently and, on January 15 this year, the two had decided to stay […]
Mumbai : Swara Bhasker is the latest actor to launch her production banner with an aim to support filmmakers who have fresh and powerful stories to tell. The critically-acclaimed actor has joined hands with her entrepreneur brother Ishan Bhasker for ‘Kahaaniwaaley’. “The idea of Kahaaniwaaley has been in the […]
Dhanbad (Jharkhand) : Three contractual labourers of an outsourcing company were killed and a safety officer was critically injured in a mishap at a cement factory at Sindri, police said Friday. Deputy Superintendent of Police (Sindri Range), Pramod Kesri told reporters that the incident happened Thursday while they were […]
Srinagar : The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway remained closed for the fifth day on Friday as fresh snowfall hampered efforts of authorities to clear the road for vehicular movement. The arterial road was closed on Tuesday after a snow avalanche had blocked both tubes of the Jawahar Tunnel on Qazigund […]
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