The UNSC’s Counter Terrorism Committee unanimously adopted the Delhi Declaration today. Among the many concerns that’s aiding terrorism in a technologically advanced world, the Committee recognised that innovations in financial technologies such as crowd funding platforms present a risk of being misused for terrorist-financing. With the growing prevalence of technology and the rapid rise in digitization, […]
The Jammu and Kashmir government launched the fourth edition of ‘Back to Village programme – B2V4’ on October 27, 2022. It is an initiative aiming to bridge the communication gap between the administration and citizens. The principal objective of this programme is to strengthen the newly constituted Panchayats. Led by the District Commissioners, over 25,000 […]
Emphasizing that social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp are bound by Indian constitution when it comes to their content moderation, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar spelt out the ramifications of the new IT rules today at a press briefing in the national capital. The newly introduced Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics […]
He tweeted early morning today, "To be super clear, we have not yet made any changes to Twitter’s content moderation policies·"
The British Parliament on Thursday, October 27 witnessed a historic commemoration of the 75th year of the signing of the Instrument of Accession by Maharaja Hari Singh, through which the erstwhile Princely state of Jammu and Kashmir acceded to India.
In a major decision that comes a day after the social media giant acted tough on its anti-India executives, the government of India amended IT rules. The new rules make social media compliant with Indian law.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is credited with mooting some of the landmark concepts in multiple spheres of governance. On Friday, he once again came up with another such idea: ‘One Nation, One Police Uniform’. Addressing an online brainstorming session of state home ministers, PM Modi asked them to consider implementing a single uniform for police […]
Billionaire Elon Musk is planning to take over the role of chief executive officer (CEO) at Twitter, the third tech giant along with Tesla Inc and SpaceX in his kitty. After formally completing the USD 44 billion acquisition of the social media behemoth, Musk intends to replace Parag Agrawal whom he reportedly fired barely hours […]
After officially closing the deal to purchase Twitter, billionaire Elon Musk terminated the employment of top executives like chief executive officer (CEO) Parag Agrawal and legal affairs and policy chief Vijaya Gadde. Twitter chief financial officer Ned Segal was also fired immediately, reported Reuters quoting people familiar with the matter. As per the report, the […]
On Thursday, the President of Zimbabwe let his guard down as he celebrated the country’s thrilling one-run win over Pakistan in the ongoing T20 World Cup in Perth with all gusto.