Politician resigns

M. J. Akbar, India’s Junior External Affairs Minister, has resigned amid accusations by 20 women of sexual harassment during his previous career as one of the country’s most prominent news editors, becoming the most powerful man to fall in India’s burgeoning #MeToo movement. Akbar said he would “challenge false accusations” in a personal capacity, referring to a criminal defamation case he filed against the first woman to accuse him. Akbar, 67, edited the Telegraph, the and other newspapers.