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Ravi Shankar Prasad-led IT ministry had asked Twitter to block scores of accounts following the violence on January 26. NEW DELHI: The Centre on Wednesday did not mince words as it questioned the timing of Twitter's blogpost published ahead of a scheduled meeting of their representatives. Earlier in the day, the micro-blogging site had published a blog explaining why it had reinstated the accounts which were blocked on government's request following violence during the farmers' tractor rally on January 26. Following Twitter's blogpost, the ministry of information and technology (MeitY) took...

MeitY coochy-coos KOO - India's alternative to Twitter Claimed to be microblog for Indians who prefer Indian vernacular languages, KOO was one of the winners of government's Aatmanirbhar Bharat App Innovate Challenge Nidhi Singal | February 10, 2021 | Updated 18:30 IST Hailed to be the Indian alternative to popular social network Twitter, home-grown KOO has gained traction over the last few days. While it took the app eight months to reach its first million subscribers, KOO has gained close to a couple of million subscribers in last few days, taking the overall subscriber base to over 3 mill...

Published: January 26, 2021 2:14 PM IST The Indian government could impose a permanent ban on 59 Chinese apps, including TikTok, which were banned in India in June last year under section 69A of the Information Technology Act. According to a report in Mint, which quoted a person aware of the development, the Ministry of Electronics and Information and Technology (MeitY) has issued fresh notices to the apps to impose a permanent ban on them in India. Also Read - Pakistan court orders Telecom authority to block TikTok in the c...

1. Guiding principles for NPD regulation: While even the Old Report alluded to a separate legislation to govern NPD in India, the New Report lists the following guiding principles on which the regulation will be based: (i) India has rights over data of India, its people and organisations; (ii) benefits of data must accrue to India and its people; (iii) innovation, new models and algorithms for the world. (iv) misuse, reidentification and harms must be prevented; (v) regulations should be simple, digital and unambiguous; (vi) data should be freely available for innovation and entrepreneurship...

Millions of fans waiting for PUBG India launch. New Delhi: As millions of PUBG Mobile fans are eagerly waiting for the re-entry of the game in the country, some media reports are suggesting that the game might be launched somewhere between January 15 and January 19. This, after company recently uploaded a new trailer on YouTube. Another media report however said that there seems no possibility in sight for the game to be launched in the country before March, an insidesport report said. The same report mentioned a very important question on accessing PUBG in India. Is access to PUBG in India i...