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KKR in advanced talks to invest $1 billion in Reliance Retail

Private equity firm KKR & Co. could invest as much as $1.5 billion. This could be another US investment after Silver Lake’s deal of Rs 75 billion.

Facebook, Twitter flag Trump for misleading posts on voting

Trump suggested that people vote in person as well as by mail, which could be interpreted as advising people to vote twice and is also illegal.

Raja Singh accuses Facebook of working under Congress’ pressure, says he has no account

The BJP MLA, who was banned for hate speech violations Thursday, said he has not been on Facebook since April 2019, so there was no question of banning him.

Facebook has banned BJP MLA T Raja Singh, but his supporters can still post his praise

T. Raja Singh was among the central figures named in an August WSJ report that claimed Facebook ignored hate speech by BJP leaders to protect its business interests in India. 

Facebook replies to Congress’ concerns, says it is non-partisan & against hate, bigotry

The Congress accused Facebook of interfering in India's democratic process and social harmony and being soft on members of the ruling BJP while applying its hate-speech rules.

Facebook bans BJP MLA Raja Singh for hate speech violations

Facebook has been in the eye of a storm after a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report alleged that Facebook's content policies favoured the BJP.

Grilled by IT parliamentary panel on hate speech, Facebook India head says company is neutral

Facebook India head Ajit Mohan says platform has removed 22.5 million hate speech posts globally, but doesn't respond to suggestions of an India-specific standard for the same.

Facebook threatens to block news. Hope they really do it

The bargain that news organisations have struck with Silicon Valley in their search for traffic is an abusive relationship that benefits nobody.

Facebook has sent the world a warning by threatening Australian news publishers

The standoff has turned one of Facebook’s most distant markets into a test case as watchdogs around the world turn their own power against digital behemoths.

Ravi Shankar Prasad says Facebook is biased against Right-wing, its employees abuse PM

In a letter, the Union IT minister says Facebook has been used by ‘radical elements’ whose sole aim is to ‘destroy social order, to recruit people and to assemble them for violence’.

On Camera

India needs an emissions-based vehicle tax system to boost newer technologies

Maruti Suzuki chairman RC Bhargava said that hybrid vehicles are cleaner than BEVs. An EREV or PHEV may be cleaner than a mild hybrid, but none of them are zero-emissions like a BEV.

Govt-run banks no longer need external help for capital buffers, issuing bonds to fund lending

Govt has not had to recapitalise PSBs since FY22. These banks, now highly profitable, are now increasingly meeting their capital requirements from their own resources.

‘Experiment’ that paved way — how 3 women IPS officers in Kashmir’s militant hotbeds defied scepticism

Shopian SSP Tanushree, Pulwama SSP PD Nitya & Sopore SSP Divya Dev played major role in attempts to restore people's trust in administration, opened doors for other women officers in J&K.

Rahul has laid 3 painful questions to rest. If he doesn’t shoot & scoot now, he can revive Congress

Congress party's score of 99 in the Lok Sabha elections has vaporised three painful questions dogging Rahul Gandhi for two decades. His record so far deserves a closer look.