In a statement, the IT ministry termed WhatsApp's last moment challenge to the intermediary guidelines as an unfortunate attempt to prevent norms from coming into effect.
Hate speech content removal has increased over 15X on Facebook and Instagram since Facebook first began reporting it.
The planned 43-day-long campaign called 'Raise your Voice Against Child Sexual Abuse' will see Muhammed Shahid cover 11 states and 96 districts.
'Yoga is magic!' 'Other than keeping me physically fit, it helps me be calm and emotionally balanced. It gives me a lot of energy that keeps me productive throughout the day.'
Google received 26,087 complaints from users and removed 61,114 pieces of content based on those complaints in November, the tech giant said in its monthly transparency report.
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Additional Sessions Judge Saurabh Kulshreshtha sentenced Thakur to life imprisonment for remainder of his natural life.
In this weekly self-help series, mental health and life coach Anu Krishna tells you how to take control of your life.
Most days, I wake up with the feeling that I have an ideal relationship with my husband. Then, he wakes up and screws it all up, sighs Gal Godot.
In addition to reports from users, Google also removed 3,84,509 pieces of content in October as a result of automated detection.
'That would make for happier relationships.'
The State Department in its report listed more than a dozen significant human rights issues for India. Prominent among them are unlawful and arbitrary killings, including extrajudicial killings perpetrated by police; torture and cases of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment by some police and prison officials; arbitrary arrest and detention by government authorities; harsh and life-threatening prison conditions; political and prisoners or detainees in certain states.
We celebrate January 26 as Republic Day because that's the day on which we adopted the Constitution in 1950. Yet, in the days preceding and following Republic Day 2021, three different courts violated the Constitutional rights of citizens, observes Jyoti Punwani.
'Being shut indoors with an abusive partner has made life a lot worse for women, and domestic violence helplines have reported a significant rise in distress calls at this time,' observes Shuma Raha.
'The RSS-BJP fight against TMC excesses seem to have been limited to fighting the assembly poll, not coming to the defence of ordinary Bengalis who are being crushed daily by Trinamool goons,' points out Virendra Kapoor.
Born in poverty and subjected to inhuman abuse, Kalpana Saroj overcame all hurdles to emerge a success story.
In a case of mistaken identity, an 18-year-old high school graduate in Colorado, US was shot and killed allegedly by a close family friend.
While recounting the harrowing experience, Kishore said that during the firing he had rushed towards the Indian side but Nepal Army personnel hit him with a rifle butt and took him to Nepal's Sangrampur.
The court referred the NCRB data and said 38,947 women were raped in India in 2016. "What is to be done? Girls and women are getting raped left, right and centre," the bench said."
Anger problems, however, don't crop up overnight. The signs are usually present at least two years before a major outburst comes to light.
The US president says 'we're going to keep families together' after facing huge backlash for his 'zero tolerance' stance.
Gabriel, 30, accepted an ICC charge after he was warned by on-field umpires during the third Test for comments made towards England captain Joe Root.
Raphael Samuel has invited much ridicule and abuse, as well as bits of admiration, on social media, reports Ritwik Sharma.
Apprehending threat to the life of family members, father of the child rape-victim has moved the Supreme Court on Thursday opposing the bail plea of self-styled godman Asaram Bapu.
Bengaluru-based NorthStar uses Internet of Things platform to monitor school buses, facilitate disaster prevention & better emergency management.
Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu on Wednesday once again trained his guns on former state chief minister Amarinder Singh, calling him a 'fraud,' 'coward' and a 'crybaby.'
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If you are upset with your colleague's work, please resolve all issues within the precincts of your workplace. Never outside of your workplace.
'He would not hear a word against her, no matter what she did to him.' 'Just because you are a National Award winner, it doesn't give you the license to walk all over people and destroy their lives.'
A primary school teacher in China's Gansu province has been executed for the rape and sexual abuse of 26 minor girls.
In June, Google received 36,265 complaints - the highest till now - from individual users located in India via designated mechanisms. It removed 83,613 pieces of content as a result of user complaints in the said month.
Twitter received 94 grievances and 'actioned' 133 URLs between May 26 and June 25, the microblogging platform said in its maiden monthly compliance report as mandated by the IT rules.
Brajesh Thakur, the main accused in the child sexual abuse case, has been resting it out for the past 40 days.
When a trial for a murder is going on -- with no end in sight -- more than ten years after the crime took place, it will not feel like the murder happened yesterday.
The top court said the probe agency would take the help of professional councillors and qualified child psychiatrist in questioning the victims.
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"She (the teacher) dragged my child forcefully and asked her to stay for five minutes inside the boys' washroom as a punishment for not wearing the uniform," alleged the father of the victim.
In this weekly self-help series, mental health and life coach Anu Krishna tells you how to take control of your life.
'How will they give me permission to die when there are many others in conditions worse than mine?'
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