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Dead After 15-Hour Standoff with Police at Hotel Manchester
A 15-hour standoff at a New Hampshire hotel ended with three people dead, including two who had barricaded themselves inside a room and shot repeatedly at police and drug enforcement agents.
Authorities, including a SWAT team, swarmed the area around the Quality Inn in Manchester, closing off a bustling commercial neighborhood filled with car dealerships, a strip mall and several restaurants.
(Source: PTI)
Court Stays Release of Lakshmi's NTR
Andhra Pradesh High Court has ordered stay on the release of Ram Gopal Verma's film Lakshmi's NTR. Next hearing adjourned till 3 April, the court ordered not to exhibit the film until then.
Facebook Charged with Housing Discrimination
The federal government charged Facebook with high-tech housing discrimination for allegedly allowing landlords and real estate brokers to systematically exclude groups such as non-Christians, immigrants and minorities from seeing ads for houses and apartments.
The civil charges filed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development could cost the social network millions of dollars in penalties. But more than that, they strike at the heart of Facebook's business model — its vaunted ability to deliver ads with surgical precision to certain groups of people and not others.
(Source: AP)
Boeing Sued Over Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX crash
A lawsuit against Boeing was filed in US federal court over 10 March Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX crash that killed 157 people.
(Source: Reuters)