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Monday, November 4, 2024
TopicNew Zealand shooting

Topic: New Zealand shooting

Two killed, five injured in New Zealand shooting hours ahead of Women’s World Cup

The gunman, yet to be identified, is believed to be 24-yr-old. He had a pump-action shotgun and contained himself within an elevator shaft and fired shots before being found dead.

Indian-origin teen detained in Singapore for planning mosque attacks after watching IS videos

The boy, a Christian, had watched the livestream killing of Muslims at Christchurch in New Zealand on 15 March 2019, and planned to carry out his attack on its second anniversary.

What US can learn from Jacinda Ardern’s stunning election victory in New Zealand

Ardern’s message of empathy & kindness married with skillful crisis management contrasts starkly with the divisive politics in US as Trump, Biden face off for presidency on 3 Nov.

Life sentence without parole for New Zealand shooter who massacred 51 people in 2 mosques

On 15 March 2019, Brenton Harrison Tarrant opened fire with modified semi-automatic weapons in two Christchurch mosques, live-streaming the shootings to social media.

Facebook ups its game as it struggles to curb spread of false and violent content

Facebook has said one of the measures will be to reduce the reach of Groups that repeatedly share misinformation and make their administrators more accountable. 

Theresa May is stuck in a hamster wheel, and Trump finds a punching bag that can’t respond

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

White nationalists & jihadis are both tech-savvy killers, but they’re far from same

It’s unrealistic to expect the US government to treat white nationalist terrorism the same way it has treated the Islamist variety.

New Facebook rules will end job, housing ads that discriminate by age, gender, pin code

The rules are aimed at settling a string of lawsuits that allege Facebook enables bias in housing, credit and employment.

Not just New Zealand, Muslims must come together when terrorists attack non-Muslims too

Muslims must learn from how non-Muslims have come together to express grief and compassion with the victims of the New Zealand attack.

Trump is not behind New Zealand racist outrage, Australia is

In the wake of the attacks, US president Donald Trump was blamed for stoking existential fears among white people. But the power of historical Australian white supremacism has been completely ignored.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

Indian firms sanctioned by US didn’t violate laws, says MEA. Hyderabad firm that supplied to Army on list

Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.