NorthPark Center evacuated: What sparked the major police response in North Dallas?NorthPark Center was evacuated Wednesday afternoon due to a "potential security issue," with multiple sources indicating a possible bomb th...
26 Mar, 2026, 06.06 AM IST
X disagrees with govt blocking orders for certain posts and accounts, but compliesTwitter said that in compliance with the orders, it will withhold the accounts and posts in India only on government's orders, but expresse...
22 Feb, 2024, 11.50 AM IST
X, formerly Twitter, appeals court ruling on content blocking ordersSocial media platform X has appealed to an Indian state court to set aside its ruling that rejected a plea against some government orders t...
02 Aug, 2023, 03.11 PM IST
Karnataka HC dismisses Twitter's plea against government, slaps Rs 50 lakh fineJustice Krishna S Dixit said that the social media company did not give reasons for not complying with the government's demands for blockin...
30 Jun, 2023, 03.31 PM IST
All platforms must comply with Indian law: MoS IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar after court junks Twitter pleaThe decision comes weeks after Dorsey accused India of threatening to shut down the social media platform in the country unless it complied...
30 Jun, 2023, 02.11 PM IST
Karnataka HC calls out Central government for repeated adjournments in the Twitter caseJustice Krishna S Dixit said the High Court was not at the 'beck and call' of the government when the counsel for the central government so...
09 Jan, 2023, 07.57 PM IST
There can't be general blocking orders: Twitter tells Karnataka HCThe Karnataka High Court was hearing a plea against 10 blocking orders for 39 URLS issued by the central government between February 2021 a...
17 Oct, 2022, 08.35 PM IST
Govt's order to block accounts violation of freedom of speech: TwitterThe counsel for Twitter also told the Karnataka High Court that there were no provisions under section 69 of the Information Technology Act...
26 Sep, 2022, 06.27 PM IST
Twitter defiant to laws of the land: Centre tells Karnataka HCThe affidavit of the central government has further asserted that Twitter had been a “habitual non-compliant” social media intermediary for...
02 Sep, 2022, 09.21 PM IST
Twitter bans 45,191 accounts in India for violating guidelinesThe microblogging platform finds itself in a legal battle in the Karnataka High Court with the Indian government over content blocking orde...
02 Sep, 2022, 05.17 PM IST
Centre’s 39 ‘take down’ orders fail ‘proportionality’ test: Twitter in HCET has reviewed a copy of the petition. Twitter declined to provide details of the specific blocking orders that it wants overturned, stati...
08 Jul, 2022, 06.00 AM IST
Twitter must abide by Indian laws, govt saysCentre says compliance with laws enacted by Parliament a must; company cites free speech for not blocking some accounts
11 Feb, 2021, 11.17 AM IST
Twitter suspends 500 accounts under government fire; no action on handles of journalists, activists, and politiciansTwitter says actions it has been directed to take are not consistent with Indian law
10 Feb, 2021, 10.00 AM IST
Not acting on government requests could put Twitter in legal soupFacebook and Google’s YouTube have “proactively” complied with similar requests from the ministry of electronics & IT (MeitY), “with Twitte...
09 Feb, 2021, 12.20 PM IST
Centre warns Twitter over ‘Farmer Genocide’ hashtagThe January 31 interim order was issued on the grounds that the cited URLs were spreading misinformation about the protests and had the pot...
04 Feb, 2021, 07.54 AM IST
India warns Twitter to comply with orders to block accountsTwitter blocked dozens of accounts in India, including that of a leading news magazine, after the government said that users were posting c...
03 Feb, 2021, 05.04 PM IST
Twitter restores Kisan Ekta Morcha and The Caravan accounts, among others after day-long suspensionTwitter accounts of Kisan Ekta Morcha and The Caravan, and nearly 200 others, were withheld due to emergency requests sent by the Ministry ...
01 Feb, 2021, 11.09 PM IST