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Ladakh [India], May 29 (ANI): The Union Territory of Ladakh reported 124 fresh Covid-19 cases, 172 recoveries and two deaths on Friday, as per the Department of Public Information in Leh today morning.
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Hours after Twitter said that it is concerned for its employees after “intimidation” by the Indian government and its agencies, the Delhi Police responded saying that the micro-blogging platform’s statement was “designed to impede a lawful inquiry”. Later in the day, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) also responded to the statement calling it “baseless and false and an attempt to defame India to hide its own follies”.
The Ministry urged Twitter to comply with the new IT Rules 2021. On Thursday, a Twitter spokesperson in a statement said, “Right now, we are concerned by recent events regarding our employees in India and the potential threat to freedom of expression for the people we serve. We, alongside many in civil society in India and around the world, have concerns with regards to the use of intimidation tactics by the police in response to enforcement of our global Terms of Service, as well as with core elements of the new
Contrived fear-mongering : Delhi Police, Centre slam Twitter s threat to expression salvo Twitter has one simple thing to do - cooperate with the law enforcement and reveal to the legal authority the information it has but it refused to do so, Delhi Police said.
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Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey seen gesturing while interacting with students at IIT, New Delhi on November 12, 2018. (Photo | AFP) By Express News Service
NEW DELHI: Gloves were off on Thursday as the spat between Twitter and the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) turned ugly, with the former calling out the Centre s new regulatory regime and the latter saying the platform has no locus in dictating India s legal policy framework. Both claimed their goal was to protect the user’s privacy and the freedom of speech and expression.
Microblogging platform flags ‘intimidation tactics’, seeks a minimum of 3-month extension of compliance window.
With microblogging platform Twitter on Thursday expressing concerns over “intimidation tactics” by Delhi Police and “potential threat to freedom of expression” in India, the government hit back, calling the statement baseless, false and an attempt to defame India to hide their [Twitter’s] own follies.
This follows a similar tiff between the government and messaging app WhatsApp on Wednesday after the latter filed a legal challenge to India’s new IT guidelines.
The U.S.-headquartered firm expressed concerns over “recent events regarding its employees in India” and said it plans to advocate changes in core elements of the new IT Rules that inhibit free and open public conversation. It, however, had added that it will strive to comply with the revised IT laws in India, but sought a minimum of three-month extension of compliance window.