Tag: Germany

Berlin: Reacting to Germany’s plans of enacting a new law to impose up to a whopping 50 million euros in fine on social networks if they fail to remove hate speech and fake news quickly from their platforms, Facebook has said that the draft law is not the right way to achieve these goals, media reported. […]

New Delhi: Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit later this month for the biannual inter-governmental consultancies (IGC), Germany on Tuesday made a strong pitch for resuming negotiations for an EU-India free trade agreement (FTA) and reaffirmed its support for New Delhi’s bid for membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). Germany is among the […]

Berlin: Around 50,000 people in Germany’s Hannover city will be evacuated from their homes on Sunday while experts defuse five Second World War bombs, officials said on Saturday. The operation is the second largest of its kind carried out in the country, and will affect around a tenth of the city’s population, the BBC reported. […]

Berlin: Members of Germany’s lower house of parliament have approved a law that partially bans the full-face Islamic veil or the burqa, the media reported on Friday. The bill will prevent civil servants, judges and soldiers from wearing burqas at work, the BBC reported. After the approval on Thursday, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said […]

Berlin: In a setback to the social networking giant, a German court has upheld its decision asking it to obtain the permission of WhatsApp users in the country before processing their personal data to Facebook. The court also overturned Germany’s privacy regulator’s order that the companies delete data they had already transferred, a report in […]

Berlin: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Christian Democratic Union party are drafting a concrete plan to combat fake news in the country and the potential effect it could have for the upcoming general elections in September. Simon Hegelich, professor of political science at the Technical University of Munich and who was asked by Merkel […]

New Delhi: Microsoft has announced that the next major update to Windows 10 — the Windows 10 Creators Update — will begin rolling out to the 400 million monthly active devices worldwide on April 11. The company will also launch Surface Book and Surface Studio devices in new markets soon. Surface Book and Surface Studio […]

Berlin: Law enforcement officials in Germany registered 3,533 attacks on refugees and asylum-seekers in 2016, which resulted in 560 people, including 43 children, being injured, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday. In addition, the ministry reported that last year there had been 217 attacks against non-profit groups that support refugees and on volunteers from those […]

Germany will partner India in turning Bhubaneswar, Coimbatore and Kochi into smart cities, it was announced on Monday

Covid-19 infection has the potential to significantly change the size and stiffness of red and white blood cells, a team of German scientists has found

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today embarked on a four-nation tour of Germany, Spain, Russia and France with the aim of boosting India’s economic engagement with these nations and inviting more investment. Modi will first visit Germany, where he will hold talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel under the framework of India- Germany Intergovernmental Consultations […]

Bhubaneswar: Germany today assured Odisha assistance in developing Bhubaneswar as a model smart city and putting in place systems related to energy, transportation and waster disposal. German Ambassador in India Martin Ney gave the assurance during a meeting with Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here. The German technologies will help the smart city in sectors such […]

Olympic champions Germany clinched the Hero Champions Trophy title with a convincing 2-0 win over Pakistan in the summit clash, snapping their five-year old jinx in the elite eight-nation event at the packed Kalinga Stadium, here on Sunday

Olympic champions Germany survived a spirited fightback to snap world champion Australia's five-time title run by eking out a hard-fought 3-2 win and enter the summit clash of the Hero Champions Trophy hockey tournament here on Saturday

Bhubaneswar:  Sixty-year-old Prahalad Prusty, a retired Government servant from Kendrapara can now increase his frequency to fly as Air India has revised the age limit for senior citizens to avail discounts in air tickets. Official sources said the age limit for senior citizens to avail discounted tickets has been revised from 63 years to 60 […]