- India
Free internet for poor, K-FON, to be launched on June 5, says Pinarayi Vijayan
Thiruvananthapuram: The ambitious Kerala Fibre Optic Network (K-FON) project of the Left government, which seeks to provide free internet connectivity to the poor, will be launched on June 5, Kerala Chief Minister…
- India
Man held for objectionable post against Yogi Adityanath
Ballia: A 22-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly uploading an objectionable post against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on social media, police here said on Monday. Narhi police station in-charge…
- Delhi
Delhi: Sextortion racket busted by police, 1 held
New Delhi: A man who used to extort money after recording obscene video of victims was held by the Delhi Police. Akash Kaushal, Additional Deputy Commissioner, West Delhi Police, said that the…
- Bollywood
Lucky Ali faces backlash for post about ‘Brahman-Abram’, issues apology
Mumbai: Popular singer-songwriter Lucky Ali has found himself in hot soup as he faced the wrath of netizens after a now-deleted Facebook post that sparked controversy. In the post that he shared…
- India
Security guard duped of Rs 40,000 on pretext of being given work as ‘playboy’
New Delhi: “Do you want to become a playboy and make quick money?” When Prakash, a security guard in Delhi, received this message from a girl he had come across on Facebook,…
- Technology
WhatsApp’s new feature to allow users share status updates to FB Stories
San Francisco: Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly developing a new feature, which will allow users to share their status updates to Facebook stories without leaving WhatsApp. Earlier, users could share status updates to…
- India
NCERT’s revision of textbooks part of ‘saffronisation’ agenda: Kerala CM
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday strongly condemned the dropping of certain chapters and portions from NCERT class 12 textbooks and alleged that “complete saffronisation” of academic books was the…
- India
Govt to fact check, flag fake news on social media; firms to be sued over inaction
New Delhi: Internet firms like Google, Facebook and Twitter may lose protection under safe harbour if they fail to remove content identified by the government-notified fact-checker as false or misleading information, Minister…
- Crime and Accident
Nagpur man live-streams suicide on Facebook
Nagpur: A 27-year-old man from Maharashtra’s Nagpur hanged himself while live-streaming the act on Facebook for almost 40 minutes in the early hours of Tuesday, police said. Krutank Siddharth Dongre, a resident…
- India
UP man jumps into river after going live on Facebook
Lucknow: A 30-year-old man went live on Facebook and then jumped into the Gomti river. Police said that SDRF personnel were pressed into service but the man could not be traced till…