NEW DELHI — Meta-owned WhatsApp on Tuesday said that it has banned 2,079,000 accounts in India in the month of December in compliance with the new IT Rules, 2021. The company said that it also received 528 grievance reports in the same month from the country and took action on 24 of those. “In accordance […]
NEW DELHI — Telecom operators will have to provide recharge plans with a validity of 30 days for pre-paid customers, regulator Trai said on Thursday. The move is expected to reduce the number of recharges done by a customer during a year. At present, telecom operators provide recharge plans with a validity of 28 days […]
NEW DELHI — Centre will make it mandatory for carmakers to provide a minimum of six airbags in motor vehicles that can carry up to 8 passengers for enhanced safety of occupants, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Friday. In a series of tweets, the Road Transport and Highways Minister said his ministry had already […]
SRINAGAR — Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) has inked six agreements with global investors at EXPO2020 Dubai to bring in investments in UT’s real estate, infrastructure, tourism, healthcare, manpower employment sectors among others. Manoj Sinha, Lieutenant Governor of Jammu & Kashmir addressed the Investors Summit in Dubai yesterday, which was attended by renowned […]
NEW DELHI — Bank customers are now required to pay one rupee more on each ATM transaction done beyond the permissible limit of free transactions. Effective from January 1, 2022 banks are permitted to charge Rs 21 per transaction if a customer exceeds the permissible free limits, instead of the earlier rate of Rs 20 […]
WASHINGTON — WhatsApp is rolling out a new privacy update that will hide the last seen status from people you don’t know or haven’t chatted with in the app. Previously, WhatsApp set the feature on “Everyone” by default, allowing anyone on WhatsApp to see your status. According to The Verge, WhatsApp’s new update limits the […]
WASHINGTON — Amazon’s cloud-service network suffered a major outage Tuesday, the company said, disrupting access to many popular sites. The service provides remote computing services to many governments, universities and companies, including The Associated Press. Roughly five hours after numerous companies and other organizations began reporting issues with Amazon Web Services, the company said in […]
WASHINGTON — Twitter announced on Friday that it has removed 3,465 accounts operating as “state-backed information operations” that it linked to six countries, namely China, Mexico, Russia, Tanzania, Uganda and Venezuela. Most of the erased profiles – 2,048 – “amplified Chinese Communist Party narratives” related to the treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang province, the social […]
NEW DELHI — Meta, the newly-formed parent company of Facebook and its family of apps, on Wednesday said that it has removed over 18.8 million pieces of content in October on Facebook and Instagram in India, as it faces intense scrutiny over user data privacy. The social network giant acted on over 18.8 million pieces […]
NEW DELHI — An Indian parliamentary panel has recommended treating social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook as publishers and setting up a regulatory body to oversee them, potentially opening the companies up to more liability for user-generated content. The high-level committee made those recommendations as it reviewed the personal data protection bill introduced in […]
