India’s war on the internetIn it, IFF highlighted that internet shutdowns are extremely common in India, citing reports by Top10VPN and Access Now, and data from the ...
19 Feb, 2022, 10.27 AM IST
Omicron 3 times more transmissible than Delta; activate war rooms, consider night curfew: Centre to statesJammu and Kashmir and Odisha are the latest states to report Omicron cases. Besides Maharashtra,Telangana, Odisha and J&K, the breakup in o...
22 Dec, 2021, 10.46 AM IST
New drone rules; one crore Koo installs; goodbye Yahoo NewsThe Drone Rules, 2021, reduces the number of forms and permissions required to be submitted by drone manufacturers and operators from 25 to...
26 Aug, 2021, 07.27 PM IST
Koo app clocks 1 crore downloads in less than 18 months of operationsAccording to the Koo app, its growth accelerated since February this year with 85 lakh downloads registered in the past six months alone. I...
26 Aug, 2021, 01.34 PM IST
Taliban-Afghanistan crisis shocks Malala; activist says she's 'deeply worried' for women, minoritiesThe Pakistani activist called for urgent humanitarian aid & protection to civilians.
16 Aug, 2021, 04.15 PM IST
UAE lifts ban on transit flights from India, Pakistan & several other countriesThe UAE, a major international travel hub, has banned passengers from many South Asian and African countries for several months due to the ...
04 Aug, 2021, 09.56 AM IST
COVID-19: Oman suspends flights from 24 countries, including India, PakistanOman on Wednesday reported 1,675 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 280,235.
08 Jul, 2021, 01.05 PM IST
The world's big tech firms are gearing up for a massive fight with Modi’s IndiaUnlike authoritarian regimes such as Beijing, critics fear actions taken by the world’s largest democracy could offer a template for other ...
30 Jun, 2021, 01.06 PM IST
UAE ban on entry from India unchanged, says new federal aviation noticeDubai, a business and tourism hub, is the most populous of the UAE's seven emirates. Throughout the pandemic the UAE's seven emirates have ...
29 Jun, 2021, 09.49 AM IST
Twitter has declined govt orders it disagreed with: Legal chief Vijaya GaddeI think the most important thing here is an open dialogue, says Twitter's chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde.
12 Jun, 2021, 07.42 AM IST
Govt of Nigeria creates official account on Koo following Twitter banThe government's first post was to do with a documentary on Nigeria that will be aired on June 12 in commemoration of Democracy Day.
10 Jun, 2021, 01.19 PM IST
Koo eyes Nigeria market after Twitter banThe developments came after Nigeria indefinitely suspended Twitter's activities on Friday after the social media platform deleted a tweet f...
05 Jun, 2021, 06.54 PM IST
Nigeria suspends Twitter days after president's post removedInformation Minister Lai Mohammed said the government had acted because of "the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capa...
05 Jun, 2021, 10.33 AM IST
Bitcoin tumbles after Turkey bans crypto payments citing risksBitcoin was down 4.6 per cent at $60,333 at 1117 GMT after the ban, which was criticised by Turkey's main opposition party. Smaller coins e...
16 Apr, 2021, 06.12 PM IST
Facebook's flood of languages leave it struggling to monitor contentFacebook's 15,000-strong content moderation workforce speaks about 50 tongues, though the company said it hires professional translators wh...
23 Apr, 2019, 12.01 PM IST
'Boko Haram cluster bombs' may come from Nigerian military: CampaignersThe insurgents, allied to the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq, have in recent months increasingly used suicide and bomb attacks.
13 Oct, 2015, 05.39 PM IST
Saudis are World's No 1 Tweeters, India at 21st positionAccording to PeerReach, one-third or 32 per cent of the Saudi's online population are active monthly Twitter users.
17 Nov, 2013, 04.44 PM IST