BRICS adopts New Delhi Declaration: Inside the 140-point document on Global South's ambitionsBRICS leaders adopted the New Delhi Declaration at the 18th summit, reaffirming their commitment to cooperation, multilateralism and a more...
14 Sep, 2026, 01.31 PM IST
In 2020, Brazilian musician Alok launched Instituto Alok to back Amazon conservation with 400,000 seedlings. Today, its projects have helped restore 3 million m² of native forestBrazilian musician Alok is taking his environmental work beyond the stage through Instituto Alok, founded in 2020. The initiative supports ...
11 Sep, 2026, 10.11 PM IST
Brazil fines TikTok $30 million in 'powerful signal' over child safetyBrazil's data protection agency on Tuesday fined TikTok nearly $30 million for failing to implement child safety measures in what it said w...
26 Aug, 2026, 10.15 AM IST
Brazil fines TikTok owner ByteDance for unlawful processing of teenagers' dataANPD said that the local unit of China's ByteDance had processed personal data of teenagers aged 13 to 18 without a valid legal basis. The ...
26 Aug, 2026, 12.58 AM IST
Risk of death prediction: In 2020, researchers in Brazil published study predicting which middle-aged people would less likely to die within decade but viral tests results are changing. Here's why"Sit-to-stand" tests come in several forms. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 30-second chair-stand test is designed fo...
24 Aug, 2026, 11.25 PM IST
Brazil orders X to 'immediately' block Grok sexualised deepfakesBrazil on Wednesday told Elon Musk's social network X to stop its chatbot from creating sexually explicit images, the latest country to pre...
12 Feb, 2026, 09.26 AM IST
Trump imposes 50% tariff on Brazil, Lula warns of 'reciprocal measures'Donald Trump announced a 50% tariff on all imports from Brazil, citing unfair trade practices and linking the move to Brazil's treatment of...
10 Jul, 2025, 07.26 PM IST
Brazil's Supreme Court justices agree to make social media companies liable for user contentA majority of Brazil's Supreme Court justices support holding social media firms like Meta, X, and Microsoft liable for illegal user posts....
12 Jun, 2025, 08.20 AM IST
Brazil's top court says X paid pending fines to wrong bankBrazil's Supreme Court postponed its decision to allow social media platform X, owned by Elon Musk, to resume services in the country, as t...
05 Oct, 2024, 08.50 AM IST
Brazil judge orders X to reimpose block or face hefty fineJudge Alexandre de Moraes said in a court order that a "recalcitrant" X had "unlawfully, persistently and intentionally" failed to respect ...
19 Sep, 2024, 08.51 PM IST
How Brazil's experiment fighting fake news led to a ban on XBrazil's yearslong fight against the internet's destructive effect on politics, culminating in the current blackout of X, shows the pitfall...
01 Sep, 2024, 05.26 PM IST
Amazon expands in Brazil, riding e-commerce boom set off by COVID-19 distancingThe new units are already operating in the states of Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Sul and the capital city of Brasilia. They increase the...
09 Nov, 2020, 12.13 PM IST
After US, Indian elections may be the next target of Russia: Oxford ProfessorPhilip N. Howard, a professor of Internet studies at the Oxford Internet institute, made the statement during a hearing of the Senate Intel...
03 Aug, 2018, 01.19 PM IST
India ranks 102 out of 132 nations on social development indexThe Social Progress Index is a measure of human well-being that goes beyond traditional economic measures such as GDP or per capita income.
04 Apr, 2014, 11.52 AM IST
India, Brazil help Facebook expand user base to 1.11 bnMAU's in India doubled to 78mn in Q1 2013 compared to Q1 2012, while the users in Brazil rose by 62% to 73mn during the same period.
06 May, 2013, 03.18 PM IST
- Facebook users in India have doubled in last one year
Social networking site Facebook finds India a major growth market, where the number of users have more than doubled in the past one year
03 Feb, 2012, 04.58 PM IST
- India logs high growth, but lags in prosperity
Though India has recorded one of the highest economic growth rates in the world, it continues to lag in economic prosperity, according to a...
15 Oct, 2008, 02.17 AM IST