Ministry of home affairs and the IT ministry are planning to have a series of discussions with representatives from Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, and Google on issues around national security and the problem of fake news. Asking for decryption keys from WhatsApp to track conversations on the chat app is also part of the agenda.
Recently, several Twitter users began migrating to the social networking platform after a protest that began with Supreme Court lawyer Sanjay Hegde's Twitter account suspension, and moved on to a larger conversation about Twitter's policies being allegedly anti-Dalit and certain castes and religion.
It is only for retail trading of goods that sourcing conditions are mandated. Such norms are not applicable to manufacturers as goods are produced in India, the government said.
The California-based company has been facing flak recently after about a dozen people were beaten up based on incendiary messages being spread on the app through large groups.
'His secularism merely declared the equality of all religions in India under fundamental rights.'
"I would say that I can't spend all my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead," Obama told the NBC news in an interview in response to question regarding to a recent poll according to which 18 per cent of Americans believe that he was a Muslim.
'We should have seen these signals and reacted earlier.' 'We miss out on a certain strategic advantage by arriving late on the scene.'
The rate of immunisation is low mainly because of rumours that the vaccines would have a sterilising effect on the children.
Sumit Bhattacharya lists what the leaked WhatsApp conversations reveal about the man named Arnab Goswami, and a certain PDG.
Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah on Tuesday said that his party will form the next government in Bihar.
PM Modi's assurance came against the backdrop of violent protests against the CAB.
The company shut its factory on June 3, which ironically was also World Bicycle Day. It laid off its 431 remaining employees, but the company insists they continue to be on its rolls and will be paid "lay-off wages" upon marking attendance daily.
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Maharashtra Congress accused the govt of being biased against the state, and claimed that it was planning to reduce the importance of Mumbai as the financial capital.
He said the farmer's agitation in Punjab against the new farm laws could lead to 'serious consequences' for national security and alleged that China and Pakistan were seeking to disturb peace in the country's border state. Stressing that his intention was not to disturb peace, Singh said he was trying to 'save' his state's farmers as the Centre was 'playing with' their livelihoods.
WiMAX is generally said to deliver 70 megabits per second over 50 kilometers but can either operate at higher bitrates or over longer distances.
Amid growing demands for his resignation, Kumar told the MHRD officials that efforts were being made to facilitate semester registration for 'willing' students.
'Switch it on at 2 pm, they will scream the same.' 'Are there no other problems that the country is facing today about which people need to know or these channels must need to broadcast?' 'There has to be some limit to this naked TRP greed.'
'So potent is the menace of false news that scientists have now devised a psychological vaccine to target it,' says Veena Sandhu.
'This is another step to improve Twitter, and ensure everyone can have confidence in their followers,' Twitter said in a statement.
These users span across four continents and included diplomats, political dissidents, journalists and senior government officials.
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Lelhari was named as the new commander of Ghazwat-ul-Hind in June this year after Zakir Musa was gunned down by security forces.
The meet discussed the promotion of education to prevent terrorism, greater inter-religion dialogue, and measures to eradicate conditions conducive to terrorism.
"Lot of misinformed speculation is going around in media. Government's fiscal math is completely on track. There is no proposal to ask RBI to transfer Rs 3.6 or 1 lakh crore, as speculated," Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg tweeted.
Journalist Pushp Sharma of Milli Gazette, where the story was published, was questioned at Kotla Mubarakpur police station in south Delhi on a complaint by a senior Ayush ministry official, police said.
Claiming that the People's Democratic Party has no links with extremist elements, its chairman Abdul Nasser Madani on Saturday charged the Muslim League (ML) and BJP with carrying out a 'misinformation campaign' against his party to gain political mileage.
Out on bail, the Bhim Army chief said 'it will be shameful if I don't call him out for saying that those indulging in violence can be identified by their clothes itself'.
The court said the remarks made by Gandhi were far from true and he should have refrained from those and could have been careful.
Craig Wright identified himself as Satoshi Nakamato, the pseudonym he says he created when launching the currency in 2009.
The filmmaker, at the forefront of the criticism against the amended citizenship act, assured the students that he and many others stood behind the students in their long fight.
What dos and don'ts should people in Maharashtra follow with the state government notifying The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 lockdown orders?
'This confrontation could have been avoided by a less arrogant administration that initially listened, used whatever negotiating skills they had and tried to be more credible,' observes Ramesh Menon.
The Indian government is concerned only because Indian names are involved, the source said.
Addressing a rally in Karkardooma in east Delhi, Modi alleged that the AAP and the Congress were provoking people and misinforming them. They were keeping the Constitution and tricolour in the forefront, but the aim was to 'divert attention from the real conspiracy', Modi said ahead of the Delhi elections on February 8.
Latest data from the Swiss National Bank showed that money parked by Indians in Swiss banks rose over 50 per cent to CHF 1.01 billion
While companies claim to have taken steps including adding additional manpower, using artificial intelligence and machine learning, to counter spread of fake news, the government has found these measures unsatisfactory.
'Advertisers will be prohibited from running political ads -- electoral or issue-based -- until they are authorised,' Facebook said
'Government is saying that I will not be responsible for ensuring you get MSP but traders and large corporate will be responsible. 'India now is the only country that is saying such things'
Students' organisations and political parties are participating in the bandh to protest the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, which seeks to grant Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan if they faced religious persecution there.
