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Twitter Blocks 500 Accounts Inside India; Says No Action against Journalists, Activists and Politicians Moneylife Digital Team/IANS  1 Following pressure from the Union government, Twitter on Wednesday says that it has blocked about 500 accounts in India. However, Twitter has not taken any action on accounts that consist of news media entities, journalists, activists, and politicians.   Twitter says it has taken a range of enforcement actions, including permanent suspension in certain cases, against more than 500 accounts escalated across orders from the Indian government for the clear vio...

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan--Who? February 6 is the 131st birth anniversary of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan also popularly known as Frontier Gandhi and Badshah Khan. He was a prominent Indian freedom fighter, a die-hard opponent of the two-nation theory and the idea of Pakistan. He was totally committed to Gandhi's idea of non-violence, enjoyed the same stature in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), also known as Frontier, as Gandhi had in India. He opposed with full conviction the inclusion of NWFP in Pakistan but failed. After formation of Pakistan he, his followers and fam...

Ullekh N.P. Ullekh N.P. is a writer, journalist, and political commentator based in New Delhi. He is the executive editor of the newsweekly Open and author of three nonfiction books: War Room: The People, Tactics and Technology Behind Narendra Modi’s 2014 Win; The Untold Vajpayee: Politician and Paradox; and Kannur: Inside India’s Bloodiest Revenge Politics.

UPDATED: January 6, 2021 12:25 IST The survey found that only 26 per cent of Indian parents approve of their children receiving the Covid-19 vaccine by April. (Photo for represemtation) The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) gave a green signal to Oxford-Astrazeneca’s and Serum Institute of India's Covishield, along with Bharat Biotech's Covaxin last week. Covishield has been authorised for emergency use only and final contours are reportedly being worked out as it is yet to fulfil additional conditions. The big question, however, is how many Indians are ready to take the vaccine? As p...

The labour of repair rooted in tutelage and kinship, and the loyalties and discontents that surround repair worlds regulate social order. They recast questions of interdependence and difference in cities. Kolkata’s cargo-cyclists and repair workers who assemble and maintain these old vehicles redeem the city from its disrepairs. Their location and lives are read against the history of capital, contemporary infrastructure building and the logistics of labour. While tutelage fulfils the promise of labour for those who were previously excluded from it, the kinship fostered in Kolkata’s repa...