WION Morning News Brief, March 20, 2018
Sasikala
Here are the big stories of the day
Clashes between the members of Karnataka's Lingayat and Veerashaiva communities broke out on Monday in the state's Kalaburagi district hours after the Karnataka government approvedseparate religion minority statusfor the Lingayat and the Veerashaiva Lingayat community.
VK Sasikala's husband Natarajan Maruthappapassed away due to multiple organ failures at Gleneagles Global Health City in Chennai.Maruthappawas admitted to the hospital on March 16 due to a severe chest infection.
Britain and the European Union on Monday reached a landmark deal on a transition phase that will see London follow the bloc's rules for nearly two years after the Brexit divorce.
The founder leader of Pakistan's political party Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Altaf Hussain, has claimed that he has never been against the country and only wants to eliminate the repressive and exploitative feudal system from there.
British privacy regulators are seeking a warrant to search the offices of the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica late Monday following reports that the company may haveimproperly gained accessto data on 50 million Facebook users, according to a Channel 4 television report.