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What’s Your Dream Of Future India, TMC Campaign Asks Indians

As India celebrated its 75 years of Independence, the All India Trinamool Congress' (AITC) #MyIdeaForIndiaAt75 digital campaign sought the countrymen's view about their dream of a future India

Elon Musk, Mahua Moitra, And The Still Centre

As of last week, Elon Musk fired his reverse boosters and backed out from his globally publicized offer to buy Twitter for USD 44 billion. Libertarians all over the world had hoped Musk would be striking a blow for free speech. Musk frequently said that Twitter, which he likens to a noisy public square in […]

NCPCR Summons Twitter Exec For Not Submitting ATR Against Kunal Kamra

  NEW DELHI: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has summoned Twitter India’s communications director for not submitting an “action taken report” (ATR) against comedian Kunal Kamra for posting a “doctored” video of a boy singing a patriotic song for Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Germany visit earlier this month. In […]

Trump To Be Back On Twitter, Suspension Be Reversed: Elon Musk

NEW DELHI: Micro-blogging website Twitter’s largest shareholder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that he would restore former US President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, while also calling the ban on him during then CEO Jack’s tenure as “morally wrong” and “flat out stupid”. “I told Jack Dorsey about this. He and I are of […]

Something Brewing? Sidhu Meets ‘Old Friend’ Kishor

NEW DELHI: Hours after Prashant Kishor turned down Congress’ offer to join the party, cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu met the poll strategist and shared a selfie of them on Twitter. Showing enthusiasm about meeting his old friend, the former Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president tweeted, “Had a wonderful meeting with my old friend PK… Old […]

Twitter Liberates Self As Musk Seals It with $44bn Deal; Many In India Cheer Aloud

NEW DELHI: Micro-blogging website Twitter’s board on Monday surprised the world as it accepted the billionaire Elon Musk’s offer to buy the social media company, ending a week-long saga that oscillated between “$54.20 per share” to a poison pill. With this announcement, Twitter board has ratified a deal that almost places it as one of […]

BCCI to investigate journalist’s threat to Wriddhiman Saha

Indian wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha has kept newsmen busy from last few days. After he was dropped from India’s Test squad for the series against Sri Lanka, he revealed that the Head Coach Rahul Dravid had told him to consider retirement as he no longer fits in the team’s scheme of things. He also claimed that […]

NCW pun(ch) For Siddharth; Seeks Action Against The Actor For His Remark On Saina Nehwal’s Tweet

NEW DELHI: It’s a case of pun gone all wrong. Following the uproar over actor Siddharth’s remark on the tweet of Olympian badminton player Saina Nehwal, the National Commission for Women (NCW) chief Rekha Sharma has called for strict action against the actor. https://twitter.com/Actor_Siddharth/status/1478936743780904966?s=20 In a press note issued by NCW, the commission informed that […]

Blocked By Twitter, The New Indian’s Editor-in-Chief Aarti Tikoo Says She Will Not Delete Tweet

NEW DELHI: Even after a week of being blocked by Twitter, the Editor-in-Chief of The New Indian, Aarti Tikoo has said that she will not delete the tweet that invited the suspension of her access to her Twitter handle. In a long Facebook post, while explaining her decision, she wrote that she is not guilty […]

From Sundar Pichai To Parag Agrawal, A Look At Indian-Origin CEOs Heading Global Tech Companies

NEW DELHI: Parag Agrawal, the new CEO of Twitter, joins the elite list of Indian-origin CEOs heading technology firms in the US and countries across the word. Twitter on Monday appointed Parag Agrawal as its CEO succeeding Jack Dorsey, who resigned from Twitter for the second time after having co-founded it in 2006. Agrawal, an IIT […]