General Elections have been announced in India. India will hold a seven-phase general election starting April 19, with the results to be declared on June 4. The Election Commission of India made the announcement in a news conference in New Delhi on Saturday. Nearly 970 million people are eligible to vote, according to the poll panel’s data, making the election the largest democratic exercise in the world.

India has opposed the establishment of the post of “special envoy” on a special religion at the United Nations. Calling India “a proud champion of pluralism,” India's Permanent Representative Ruchira Kamboj opposed the move. This comes as the UN General Assembly adopted the Resolution on “Measures to Combat Islamophobia” which, inter alia, calls for the appointment of a UN Special Envoy to combat Islamophobia.

Thousands of users report Facebook, Instagram outage across the globe, as per media reports. Users were unable to load apps, deliver messages and refresh their search feeds on Facebook and Instagram. There were more than 300,000 reports of outages on Facebook, while there were more than 20,000 reports on Instagram, according to the website. Several users were logged out of their Facebook accounts and because of the outage, they are not able to log back in.

Indian digital payments firm Paytm lost a fifth of its market value on Thursday after the central bank ordered its payment bank to halt its business, threatening the company's path to profitability and the app it relies on.

Farmers threw eggs and stones at the European Parliament in Brussels on Thursday, started fires near the building and set off fireworks as they demanded EU leaders do more to help them with taxes and rising costs.

A Delaware judge has ruled that Elon Musk's record-breaking $56 billion Tesla (TSLA.O) pay package could be tossed, calling the compensation "an unfathomable sum" that was not fair to shareholders, according to a court filing.

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, who together identified a chemical tweak to messenger RNA that laid the foundation for vaccines against Covid-19 that have since been administered billions of times globally, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday.

President Joe Biden’s team has begun to execute an impeachment playbook more than a year in the making: Discredit the investigators while sticking to the business of governing.

Russia will evacuate a village in its far east on Friday for the launch of Russia's first lunar lander mission in nearly 50 years, a local official said.

SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) and South Africa T20I captain Aiden Markram married his girlfriend Nicole Danielle after dating for more than 10 years.