'It is a sad day when social activists, environmental campaigners, anti-corruption workers are singled out as anti-nationals and then criminalised.'
Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's alleged comments regarding homosexuality at a conference on Monday have incited a huge backlash. Do you share his opinions? Take our poll and let us know!
MPs, state legislators and government employees will not receive the benefit of loan waiver.
Sabrina Corgatelli, a university accountant from Idaho, who gleefully posted images of herself on big game hunts is finding herself at the defensive end against online criticism after about the Facebook photos of herself with her kills, including a giraffe, from a recent legal hunt in South Africa.
Why should Reliance Digital position itself as an alternative to Chadhaji's store? It simply doesn't make good business sense, says Sudhir Bisht.
Pakistani and foreign journalists on Thursday staged a token walkout of the weekly news briefing at the Foreign Office here to protest the killing of Asia Times Online bureau chief Syed Saleem Shahzad, whose body was found in Punjab province a day after he was reported missing.
Amazon has increased the commission on non-core segments by 2-9 per cent.
Congress said Parrikar has 'unknowingly' exposed the conspiracy through which the BJP people targeted Snapdeal.
The government plans to rationalise trade margins for many other medical devices, besides stents and knee implants.
Twitter on Friday temporarily blocked IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad's account for alleged violation of the US Copyright Act, a move that the minister slammed as being arbitrary and gross violation of IT rules.
Centre plans to acquire land and then give it on lease to miners.
Dr Nishant Joshi and his pregnant wife, Dr Meenal Viz, had initiated the legal action in April with a pre-action letter seeking answers from the UK's Department of Health and Social Care and Public Health England. They decided to push ahead with the case in the high court in London on Wednesday because they feel they are "no longer willing to wait".
The big boys of India's traditional retail have finally come together to fight the onslaught of their online counterparts.
The detailed three-page advisory of the Union Home Ministry came days after the alleged gangrape and murder of a woman at Hathras in Uttar Pradesh sparked nationwide outrage.
The politicisation of ethnic sentiments in the state has coincided with the ascent of the BJP and increased activities of far right Hindu outfits, which organised rallies and other events on religious occasions such as Ram Navami a festival not very popular in West Bengal- unlike states in north India.
There is a perception getting built inside the government that big technology companies -- a common term used for firms like Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon and the like - are becoming very powerful and present multiple threats to entire nations and their citizens today. The digital ecosystem is replete with CSAM (child sexual abuse material), fake news, drug trade, radicalisation, trolling among other social vices. Given the network effect that these platforms have, it is important to ensure that these platforms are not misused.
Barely a week before the Rio Olympics opening ceremony, organisers are scrambling to put the final pieces in place.
The total cost of internet shutdowns across the world stood at $8.05 billion in 2019, an increase of 235 per cent since 2015-16.
The organisers of the controversial 'Kiss of Love' event against moral policing have claimed that their Facebook page and accounts of at least 5 persons linked with it have been hacked.
It is this new Muslim who is not burdened by the Pakistan guilt, who is ready to fight it out for the rights enshrined under the Constitution, and who is not defensive about Muslim identity that the BJP and the Sangh Parivar are out to crush, argues Mohd Asim.
Move a protest against withdrawal of commissions.
With his exit, the TMC will lose a crucial, politically influential vote catcher in the Jungalmahal region and areas in minority-dominated Murshidabad, and the BJP will get a face it badly needs, especially in rural Bengal, reports Aditi Phadnis.
A scene of a play and a conversation between two key characters were snipped from the first episode Tanashah, a day after the cast and crew of the nine-part starry political saga on Amazon Prime Video once again apologised and said they had decided to implement changes to address the concerns raised.
She and her husband Jared Kushner were dressed to the nines, where she was pictured wearing a $5,000 Carolina Herrera-designed metallic silver gown alongside before the pair attended a swanky dinner in Washington.
Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite films, most of them shown at international film festivals held virtually (Berlinale and Rotterdam), hybrid (Toronto) or physical (Cannes and Venice).
'If Walmart is a physical retailer, why is it striking a deal with Flipkart for the online space?'
A day after Kyazoonga.com, crashed due to heavy traffic, it announced that all the tickets made available to them by the state cricket association were sold out within 15 hours of going on sale.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday presented the Budget for 2021-22 in the Lok Sabha that is expected to provide relief to the pandemic-hit common man as well as focus more on driving economic recovery through higher spending on healthcare, infrastructure and defence amid rising tensions with neighbours, As India emerges from the COVID-19 crisis, the ninth Budget under the Modi government, including an interim one, is widely expected to focus on boosting spending on job creation and rural development, generous allocations for development schemes, putting more money in the hands of the average taxpayer and easing rules to attract foreign investments.
A 12-hour hartal is being observed against the preventive detention of a Hindu Aikya Vedi leader.
'Anybody and everybody who opposes this government for whatever reasons will be branded a terrorist and charged in such a manner that all human rights will be taken away.'
Hany Babu Musaliyarveettil Tharayil, 54, a resident of Gautam Buddha Nagar in Uttar Pradesh, is an associate professor in the Department of English
In a study conducted in four countries, number of Indian teens who bullied someone or were bullied by someone online was the highest.
Simbu has been asked to appear before police
'This is the first time there has been an attempt to use market forces to counter disinformation on social media,' notes Devangshu Datta.
Delhi Police spokesperson Mandeep Singh Randhawa said the internal security of the JNU lies with the varsity administration. He said the police did not reach late and handled the situation professionally.
Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite Indian films of 2021.
China is engaged in hotly contested territorial disputes in the South and East China Seas. Beijing has also made substantial progress in militarising its man-made islands in the past few years, which it says it has the right to defend.
A shocking video has appeared online showing United States Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, triggering protests from Muslim lobbies and prompting Pentagon to announce that it is investigating the authenticity of the film.
Internet cannot be regulated by 20th century notions of intellectual property. That is simply because the moment you 'see' something on the Internet it has, in a sense, already been copied onto your computer.
So the mother of all information websites has been blacked out for a good 24 hours. Here's a list of sites you can visit to cross check all your details, do your research and submit that project you've been sitting on till the last minute.
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