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Withheld some accounts flagged by government: Twitter
Twitter on Wednesday said it has withheld some of the accounts flagged by the Indian government for blocking within India only , but has not blocked handles of civil society activists, politicians and media as it would violate their fundamental right to free expression guaranteed under country s law.
Twitter emphasised that it will continue to advocate for the right of free expression of its users and that it is âactively exploring options under Indian law â both for Twitter and for the accounts that have been impactedâ.
The microblogging platform had been asked by the government to take down multiple accounts that were sharing misinformation and provocative content around the ongoing farmers agitation. It had also been warned of penal action for non-compliance.
On 4 February, the IT ministry listed Twitter handles that were flagged by security agencies as accounts of Khalistan sympathisers or backed by Pakistan and operating from foreign territories
January 29, 2021
Due process was not followed by Kerala’s IT Department in finalising the contract with US-based data analytics platform Sprinklr, a report by an enquiry committee set up by the state government concluded. All agreements were not negotiated or discussed “threadbare”, and the IT Department granted “omnibus rights” on data to Sprinklr.
Alarmingly, the committee found significant inconsistencies in the auditing process of Sprinklr’s systems, and concluded that there was very little visibility into the data security practices of the company.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s who also holds the Information Technology portfolio approval was never taken, and the then Principal IT Secretary, M Sivasankar brokered the deal with Sprinklr, the committee found.
Updated Dec 13, 2020 | 16:01 IST
Bihar BJP chief Dr Sanjay Jaiswal questioned Capt Amarinder Singh led Punjab government for alleged dubious behaviour in this sequence. Bihar BJP chief Dr Sanjay Jaiswal and Ravi Shankar Prasad address a gathering of farmers in Bakhtiyarpur
Bakhtiyarpur: Bharatiya Janata Party is iron-willed to double the income of farmers across the country and the new agriculture-related laws were promulgated by the Narendra Modi-led central government in the same sequence, asserted Bihar BJP chief Dr Sanjay Jaiswal while addressing the first Kisan Sammelan at Teka Bigaha in Bakhtiyarpur on Sunday.
Dr Jaiswal added that the massive mandate secured by the party in the recent Bihar assembly polls will ensure that the Bihari farmers reap maximum benefit from their agricultural produce. Farmers can sell their produce at will now. They’re no longer left at the mercy of middlemen. The new farm laws allow them to extract the maximum