Stringent action to be taken against social media chiefs for spreading hate messages: Government
The centre may now resort to taking legal action against the heads of the social media platforms that are there in India in they do...
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Bihar Assistant Professor beaten up for ‘sharing Facebook post’ critical of Vajpayee
Motihari (Bihar) | An assistant professor of Mahatma Gandhi Central University was allegedly beaten up by a group of youths for sharing a Facebook post critical...
UIDAI row: Google apologises, says Aadhaar toll free number “inadvertently” coded into setup of Android
New Delhi| Amid public outrage over Aadhaar helpline number being pre-stored without user consent on certain mobile phones, Google tonight apologised for “inadvertently” loading the old...
Social media platforms closed almost 700 URLs: Ravi Shankar Prasad
New Delhi | Close to 700 URLs have been blocked by social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter this year, with the government today saying it...
Blatant reliance on social media needs to be checked by citizens themselves: CJI
Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra today said the blatant reliance on social media needs to be checked by citizens themselves in order to ensure...
Lynching incidents: Police to devise ways to deal with rumour-mongering
Concerned over a string of lynching incidents in Maharashtra, the police have decided to launch a campaign to check the spread of rumours on social...
Omar Abdullah defends IAS Officer’s “Sarcastic tweet”
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday came out in defence of Shah Faesal, the IAS officer who faces disciplinary action for...
To stop lynchings, police provide WhatsApp helplines, rope in fact-checking sites
Following the lynching of five men in Dhule district, Maharashtra police are taking several preventive steps, including publication of WhatsApp numbers of police control rooms...
IAS officers counter AAP government’s allegations on Twitter
Delhi’s bureaucrats today used social media to counter the AAP government’s allegations that IAS officers were on a “strike”, creating the hashtag “#Delhiatwork NoToStrike” to...
Coimbatore blast convict arrested after alleged assassination bid on PM
The Coimbatore Police arrested a 1998 serial blast convict, Mohammed Rafiq; after a recorded telephonic conversation went viral on social media in which he is heard saying he...