Centre forms nodal body to coordinate, develop AI governance normsThe Centre on Thursday announced the formation of the AI Governance and Economic Group (AIGEG) to lead the country's national AI governance...
16 Apr, 2026, 11.05 PM IST
Gazette notification may allow more ministries to block contentSources told us that the government could use a gazette notification to give multiple ministries content-blocking powers under the Informat...
20 Mar, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
Manipur High Court seeks blocking of viral videos showing brutal killing of a man in ChurachandpurThe Manipur High Court has ordered the blocking of viral videos depicting a brutal killing in Churachandpur, citing threats to public order...
24 Jan, 2026, 09.56 PM IST
Introducing guardrails, refining safeguards for Grok, X tells CentreX has told India it is tightening safeguards on its Grok chatbot after government orders over obscene and unlawful content. Authorities are...
08 Jan, 2026, 09.49 AM IST
States, Trai jump into the fray to regulate online gamingMeitY's self-regulatory proposal for online gaming led to state laws in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Trai consulted on National Broadcasting P...
06 May, 2024, 08.46 AM IST
Centre launches Digital India future LABS for R&D in automotive, compute, other areasThe government on Saturday launched the Digital India future labs to strengthen domestic research and development (R&D) as well as innovati...
03 Feb, 2024, 09.12 PM IST
Online gaming sector hails govt move to make IT ministry as nodal agency for regulationsThe Federation of Indian Fantasy Sports hailed the Union government's move to appoint the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technolog...
05 Mar, 2023, 02.18 PM IST
MeitY to steer online gaming, e-sports with Sports MinistrySources said the upcoming budget is likely to bring more clarity, including taxation issues fced by online gaming companies.
28 Dec, 2022, 12.05 AM IST
MeitY appointed as nodal ministry for online gaming mattersAdditionally, for e-sports as part of multi-sports events, the Department of Sports under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has been...
27 Dec, 2022, 05.51 PM IST
Twitter India given ‘last chance’ to follow IT rulesSocial media platform Twitter may lose intermediary immunity if it fails to comply with rules by July 4
29 Jun, 2022, 05.30 PM IST
Twitter notice to remove manipulated media tag not under IT Act: MeitY in response to RTIMeitY has now admitted in its response that there was indeed no legal basis for the issuance of its letters, said IFF
04 Aug, 2021, 07.56 PM IST
IT ministry receives some grievances related to misleading, unwanted ads on social media"Further, MeitY has also received some grievances in this regard," Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said in a ...
29 Jul, 2021, 07.29 PM IST
Twitter says it is making every effort to comply with new IT rulesThe ministry of electronics and IT (MeitY) had sent a letter to Twitter last week warning the microblogging platform to comply with the IT ...
07 Jun, 2021, 09.41 PM IST
Agencies may need court order to trace social media messagesSocial media intermediaries — with more than 5 million registered users — have to trace the original sender of a message when asked by a go...
22 Jan, 2020, 09.00 AM IST
Keep a close watch on TikTok, PMO tells IT Ministry after complaintsMinistry had said that the Chinese app was in compliance with all requirements.
19 Jul, 2019, 08.18 AM IST
National centre being planned to hold and manage all public dataThese proposed regulations overlap and in some cases even contradict, and these issues have been flagged by global companies such as Google...
27 Jun, 2019, 11.32 PM IST
Digital payments zoom past FY19 target driven by private lendersOnline transactions rise to 31.34 billion compared to 20.7 billion in FY18; Yes Bank, IndusInd, ICICI Bank lead the charge.
20 Jun, 2019, 09.55 AM IST