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Presenting the Interim Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman promised to help "deserving" sections of the middle class living in rented houses, or slums, or chawls and unauthorised colonies" to buy or build their own houses.

Rights activist Irom Sharmila welcomed the Centre's decision to reduce areas under the Act's purview in Assam, Nagaland and Manipur, but maintained that the "draconian, colonial law" should be rolled back completely.

Russia has dismantled ransomware crime group REvil at the request of the US in an operation in which it detained and charged the group's members, the FSB domestic intelligence service said.

The United States is considering the option of welcoming people from Hong Kong in response to China's push to impose national security legislation in the former British colony, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in remarks released on Monday.

A 30-year-old man was shot dead by the owner of a dog in Delhi after he threw some stones at the animal on Sunday, the police said.

The Supreme Court verdict declaring that adultery is not a crime has been widely welcomed by several lawyers and activists who said it was antiquated colonial era law that treated women as properties of their husbands.

Australia celebrated its ancestry and native traditions in a soul-stirring Commonwealth Games opening ceremony but protests by indigenous aboriginals against the very idea of Commonwealth came as a poignant reminder of the unforgotten colonial brutalities.

Mahatma Gandhi was not particularly welcome in Britain during India's struggle for independence, but the former colonial power now has a statue of him right across their seat of government, alongside a statue of Winston Churchill, who once derided him for "posing as a (half-naked) fakir."

Mahatma Gandhi was not particularly welcome in Britain during India's struggle for independence, but the former colonial power now has a giant statue of him right across their seat of government, alongside a statue of Winston Churchill, who once derided him for "posing as a (half-naked) fakir."

Presenting the Interim Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman promised to help "deserving" sections of the middle class living in rented houses, or slums, or chawls and unauthorised colonies" to buy or build their own houses.

Rights activist Irom Sharmila welcomed the Centre's decision to reduce areas under the Act's purview in Assam, Nagaland and Manipur, but maintained that the "draconian, colonial law" should be rolled back completely.

Russia has dismantled ransomware crime group REvil at the request of the US in an operation in which it detained and charged the group's members, the FSB domestic intelligence service said.

The United States is considering the option of welcoming people from Hong Kong in response to China's push to impose national security legislation in the former British colony, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in remarks released on Monday.

A 30-year-old man was shot dead by the owner of a dog in Delhi after he threw some stones at the animal on Sunday, the police said.

The Supreme Court verdict declaring that adultery is not a crime has been widely welcomed by several lawyers and activists who said it was antiquated colonial era law that treated women as properties of their husbands.

Australia celebrated its ancestry and native traditions in a soul-stirring Commonwealth Games opening ceremony but protests by indigenous aboriginals against the very idea of Commonwealth came as a poignant reminder of the unforgotten colonial brutalities.

Mahatma Gandhi was not particularly welcome in Britain during India's struggle for independence, but the former colonial power now has a statue of him right across their seat of government, alongside a statue of Winston Churchill, who once derided him for "posing as a (half-naked) fakir."

Mahatma Gandhi was not particularly welcome in Britain during India's struggle for independence, but the former colonial power now has a giant statue of him right across their seat of government, alongside a statue of Winston Churchill, who once derided him for "posing as a (half-naked) fakir."