- World
2 Indian-origin ministers likely to sue Singapore PM’s brother for defamation
Singapore: Singapore’s Indian-origin ministers K. Shanmugam and Vivian Balakrishnan have sent lawyers’ letters to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s brother, Lee Hsien Yang seeking an apology and damages for defamation. Yang, who…
- India
Day before UP woman’s wedding in Pak, cops visited her Indian husband’s village
Ballia: Police have visited the village of the husband of the woman who recently travelled to a remote corner of Pakistan to meet a Facebook friend, and conducted a “preliminary investigation”, officials…
- World
Indian woman weds her Pakistani FB friend ‘after converting to Islam’
Peshawar: Anju, the Indian mother of two children who travelled to a remote village in Pakistan, married her Facebook friend on Tuesday after converting to Islam and now has a new name…
- India
In pursuit of love: Indian woman travels to Pak to meet her Facebook friend
Peshawar: A married Indian woman has travelled to Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to meet her friend whom she befriended and fell in love with on Facebook, police said on Sunday. Anju,…
- Business
Meta banned from running behavioural advertising on Facebook, Instagram
London: Mark Zuckerberg-run Meta has been banned from carrying out behavioural advertising on Facebook and Instagram based on the surveillance and profiling of users in Norway, unless the company obtains users’ consent.…
- Bangalore
Mangaluru: Man duped of Rs 1.16 lakh by online fraudster
Mangaluru: A man was fleeced of Rs 1.16 lakh by an online fraudster on the pretext of sending an equipment needed for the catering industry, police said. The complainant, after seeing the…
- Technology
Meta to release commercial generative AI model
San Francisco: Meta (formerly Facebook) is reportedly planning to release a commercial version of its artificial intelligence (AI) model in order to compete with Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s AI experiment Bard,…
- Technology
Meta to enable EU users to download apps via Facebook ads
London: To eventually compete with Google and Apple’s app stores, Meta is reportedly planning to allow people in the European Union (EU) directly download applications through Facebook ads. Some Android app developers…
- Technology
Meta expands ‘Why Am I Seeing This?’ feature in Insta, FB Reels
San Francisco: Meta (formerly Facebook) on Thursday announced that it is expanding the “Why Am I Seeing This?” feature in the Instagram and Facebook Reels along with Instagram’s Explore page so that…
- India
Chandra Shekhar had got death threat on Facebook
Amethi: Four days before he was shot at, Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Aazad had received a death threat from a Facebook page called Kshatriya of Amethi. “Chandra Shekhar ko jis din…
- Technology
Meta introduces new parental control across Instagram, FB, Messenger
New Delhi: Meta on Tuesday announced new features to support teens and families and make it even easier to manage the time they spend on its apps like Instagram, Facebook and Messenger.…
- Technology
Meta to end news content on FB, Insta for users in Canada
San Francisco: As the Canadian government passed Bill C-18, the Online News Act, Meta (formerly Facebook) has confirmed that it will discontinue news content on Facebook and Instagram for all users in…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Woman hangs self on Facebook Live in Nacharam
Hyderabad: Unable to bear the mental torture by husband and in-laws, a woman in Hyderabad committed suicide during a Facebook Live video After narrating her ordeal, which included that her husband was…
- Business
Facebook, Instagram suffer global outage again
New Delhi: Facebook and Instagram suffered an outage in the early hours on Saturday as the platforms failed to load and Instagram stories showed an error message while being loaded. Several users…
- Technology
Meta expands performance bonuses on FB for creators to earn more
San Francisco: Meta (formerly Facebook) has introduced extra bonuses for creators to earn more in its ‘Performance bonus programme’ that rewards creators for garnering strong engagement with their content on Facebook. The…
