Maharashtra to probe alleged misuse of funds under women empowerment scheme of previous BJP govtThe Prajwala scheme was launched in 2019 by the then government aiming at creating awareness about legal matters, social and financial know...
21 Mar, 2022, 01.07 PM IST
Softbank eyes return to FlipkartThree years after SoftBank sold its stake in Flipkart for $4 billion, the two companies could be headed for a $600-700 million reunion, and...
04 Jun, 2021, 11.15 AM IST
Exclusive | Don’t Indian firms working in the US follow their laws?: RS PrasadIndia's social media intermediary guidelines are meant to provide a grievance redressal mechanism to ordinary users, Union Minister of Elec...
04 Jun, 2021, 09.18 AM IST
View: Can digital news media be blocked?The very fact that a publisher has control over the content disentitles them to be categorised as ‘intermediary’. To frame rules therefore ...
27 Feb, 2021, 11.18 AM IST
In online clean-up, Home Ministry gets sites to take off 71 videosA list of 500 key words used in searching such videos was compiled and shared with Internet service providers such as Google, Yahoo, Facebo...
29 Oct, 2019, 07.16 AM IST
MeitY may allow more time to spike toxic online contentUnder new guidelines in the works, social media firms may get 36 hours to axe unlawful content
11 Sep, 2019, 09.31 AM IST
Whatsapp still being used for child abuse videosProbe finds app remains breeding ground for such videos; company says it’s working with tech platforms, authorities.
24 Apr, 2019, 07.30 AM IST
Facebook, Google blocking search words linked to child pornA search for ‘child porn’ on Google now throws up a warning that states child abuse is illegal and creating, possessing and viewing child p...
21 Dec, 2018, 07.00 AM IST
Centre, Google, FB, WhatsApp agree to stamp out rape, child porn videos: SCGoogle and YouTube have one reaction. Facebook, Microsoft and WhatsApp each have different reactions," the bench said in its order.
06 Dec, 2018, 09.26 PM IST
Fintech startup Crowdera raises pre-series A funding from marquee investorsThe company plans to use the funds raised to propel the early stage growth and amplify the overall impact by enhancing the product, and sca...
06 Jun, 2018, 04.25 PM IST
Crack down on rape videos, child porn: Govt to IT giantsIt has been decided to focus on vernacular languages for checking the uploading and misuse of such content, and many Indian languages will ...
23 Nov, 2017, 10.19 AM IST
Supreme Court asks Google, Facebook to give inputs on objectionable videosThe apex court asked them to provide such details they received last year and this year till August 31 and also about the action taken by t...
04 Sep, 2017, 07.49 PM IST
Internet giants roped in to curb child pornAll the four companies furnished names of their representatives who will participate in the meeting of the committee which would also compr...
23 Mar, 2017, 12.08 PM IST
Cybercrime: SC issues notice to Google, Yahoo, Facebook and MSA bench of justices M B Lokur and U U Lalit issued notice to these companies and sought their reply on the plea by January 9.
05 Dec, 2016, 06.28 PM IST
Government to unveil a new bill to check human traffickingDraft bill calls for the creation of a special court and investigation agency to tackle human trafficking cases in India.
23 May, 2016, 04.04 AM IST
Supreme Court turns down plea to ban social networking sitesThe Centre had earlier told the court that it was difficult to identify people who uploaded sex videos through mobile phones and shared thr...
05 Dec, 2015, 11.33 AM IST
Supreme Court asks IT Ministry to respond on blocking circulation of rape videosThe Supreme Court today asked the Information Technology Ministry to respond on how to block videos of rape cases, which are circulating on...
28 Aug, 2015, 11.01 PM IST