WASHINGTON — Social media platforms have made clear that self-regulation is not working, the White House asserted on Monday, saying reports about efforts to attract young users and negative effects on teenagers’ mental health are troubling. As we saw the revelations that came out in that interview, in our view, this is just the latest […]
NEW DELHI — Services of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are coming back online after several hours of disruption that impacted millions of people worldwide. While apologising for the disruption in the services of Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram, tech giant’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that services are returning online on Tuesday. “Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger […]
NEW DELHI — Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth has fallen by nearly $7 billion in a few hours, knocking him down a notch on the list of the world’s richest people, after a whistleblower came forward and outages took Facebook Inc.’s flagship products offline. A selloff sent the social-media giant’s stock plummeting around 5% on Monday, […]
SRINAGAR — Facebook and its owned applications WhatsApp and Instagram are reporting loading issues as several users worldwide complained. Downdetector showed there were more than 20,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook and Instagram. Meanwhile, the social-media giant’s instant messaging platform WhatsApp was also down for over 14,000 users, while Messenger was down for […]
URI — The residents of Ijara, Shamswari and Peernia villages of Boniyar area of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district Monday staged a protest demonstration against PHE Department and blocked a link road connecting Srinagar-Muzaffarabad highway at Peerniyan against the acute drinking water shortage. The protesters including men, and children assembled at the highway and resorted to […]
BANDIPORA — A BDC member has gone underground and is evading arrest after police booked him on charges of abduction in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district. Sources told news agency Kashmir News Trust that a BDC member for Naninara Sumbal Block of Sonawari Abdul Hameed Kaloo was allegedly harassing a married woman who also hails from […]
SRINAGAR — In an apparent reference to the violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti alleged on Monday that imposing Section 144 wherever human rights and dignity have trampled upon has emerged as the Centre’s preferred approach. She claimed that the government uses an iron fist against its own people but welcomes […]
DEHRADUN — Over 200 unidentified men and women, allegedly belonging to local right-wing groups, vandalised a church in Roorkee on Sunday, October 3, injuring several people who had assembled for morning prayers. According to the FIR registered by Prio Sadhana Lanse, the church pastor’s wife, over 200 men and women belonging to the local Vishwa […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Yasmeen Khan, one of the young and energetic social activist from Zakura, Hazratbal area of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory is working on various social issues particularly for the welfare of women and well-being of youth in Kashmir valley. Besides she has worked on issues related […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Sunday said he would request the Centre to defer by a year the Union Territory’s participation in the all-India quota in this year’s NEET exam. A delegation of NEET Post-Graduate MD/MS aspirants called on the Lieutenant at Raj Bhavan here. The delegation led by Dr […]