'Remove hoax bomb threats or face legal consequences': Indian govt warns social media platforms
Oct 27, 2024, at 01:45 am
New Delhi: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has advised all social media platforms to comply with the Information Technology (IT) Rules and the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS), asking them to make "reasonable efforts" to promptly remove bomb threat posts, warning that failure to do so could result in "liability," media reports said.
UP govt approves new social media policy, anti-national posts can attract life sentences
Aug 29, 2024, at 01:48 am
Lucknow/IBNS: The Uttar Pradesh government led by Yogi Adityanath Tuesday approved a social media policy to keep a tab on content on platforms like X, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.
Facebook, Instagram back after brief outage in India, other countries
Mar 06, 2024, at 04:41 am
Meta's social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger services in India and several other countries were restored after a brief outage on Tuesday evening.
Indian woman who travels to Pakistan leaving husband converts to Islam, marries Facebook friend
Jul 26, 2023, at 05:34 am
Jaipur/IBNS: The Indian woman, who travelled all the way to a remote village in Pakistan to meet her friend whom she got in touch with on social media, has now converted to Islam, renamed herself as Fatima, and married the Facebook friend.
Cross-border love: Rajasthan woman travels to Pakistan to meet her Facebook friend
Jul 24, 2023, at 05:15 pm
Jaipur/IBNS: In another cross-border love story, a woman from Rajasthan travelled Pakistan to meet a friend whom she got in touch with on Facebook, media reports said.
Mumbai: Man detained for uploading child pornography content on Facebook
Jul 21, 2023, at 04:47 pm
Mumbai: Mumbai police have detained a man for uploading child pornography content on Facebook after they received information about his mobile number, email ID, and IP address.
Karnataka HC warns of shutting down Facebook in India if not compliant with probe agencies
Jun 16, 2023, at 05:41 am
Bengaluru/IBNS/UNI: Karnataka High Court has warned social media platform Facebook that it would be shut down all over India if it does not cooperate with Indian agencies.
Swedish woman flies to India to marry Facebook friend in UP's Etah
Jan 30, 2023, at 12:03 am
Etah/IBNS: The people of Uttar Pradesh’s Etah witnessed the wonderful culmination of a love story as a Swedish woman flew to the city to marry local boy Pawan Kumar in a traditional Hindu ceremony.
Nov 11, 2022, at 03:58 am
San Francisco/ IBNS: As Facebook-owner Meta has started to lay off 11,000 employees, a communications manager, who is on maternity leave, found an email stating she is laid off when she woke up at 3 am to feed her three-month-old daughter.
Centre to set up panels in 3 months for addressing social media users' complaints
Oct 29, 2022, at 03:46 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Social media users will soon have the option to approach 'Grievance Appellate Committees' on occasions they disagree with content moderation or takedowns by platforms like Twitter and Facebook, the Centre said Friday.
Kolkata Police warns public about sextortion
Sep 05, 2022, at 05:30 pm
Kolkata/UNI: Cautioning people about the menace of sextortion, Kolkata Police has appealed to the general public not to accept WhatsApp video calls or any other video call from any unknown number.
Facebook agrees to settle CA data privacy lawsuit
Aug 27, 2022, at 11:48 pm
New York/IBNS: Meta’s Facebook has in-principle agreed to settle a lawsuit in the San Francisco federal court, which seeks damages for letting third parties, including Cambridge Analytica (CA), access private data of users, a court filing showed.
Crazy Love: Teenager from Assam injects HIV positive blood of boyfriend
Aug 13, 2022, at 12:06 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Blinded by love, a 15-year-old girl from Assam injected her boyfriend's HIV positive blood into her body using a syringe, media reports said.
New law likely soon to make Facebook, Google pay for news
Jul 17, 2022, at 05:56 am
New Delhi: Social media giants Google and Facebook will have to pay for the news displayed on their platforms in accordance with a new law that is likely to come into force soon, media reports said.
Meta announces safety initiatives for India to protect women
Dec 04, 2021, at 07:29 am
Meta, formerly Facebook, has announced a series of initiatives to ensure safe online experience for Indian women across its platforms.
FIR against 49 including Facebook owner Zuckerberg for indecent remarks against Akhilesh
Dec 01, 2021, at 05:42 pm
Kannauj/UNI: On the orders of the court, an FIR has been registered against 49 people, including Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg for posting indecent remarks against Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, officials said here on Wednesday.
'Hate hurts us': Facebook officials on being grilled by Delhi panel over hate speech
Nov 19, 2021, at 03:43 am
New Delhi/IBNS: A Delhi panel on Wednesday grilled Facebook officials over hate posts linked to the February 2020 riots in the capital and the action taken to remove such content.
Facebook India officials asked to appear before Delhi Legislative Assembly on Nov 18
Nov 02, 2021, at 08:29 pm
New Delhi/UNI: The Delhi Legislative Assembly's Committee for 'Peace and Harmony' Tuesday asked Facebook India officials to appear before it on Nov 18, after the social media giant sought 14-day time to select an appropriate officer for the purpose.
FB India to now appear before Delhi Legislative Assembly on Nov 18
Nov 02, 2021, at 08:19 pm
New Delhi/UNI: The Delhi Legislative Assembly's Committee for 'Peace and Harmony' on Tuesday told Facebook India officials to appear before it on November 18, after the social media giant sought 14 days to select an appropriate officer for the purpose.
Facebook to rebrand itself with a new name: Report
Oct 20, 2021, at 10:04 pm
Social media giant Facebook Inc is planning to rebrand itself with a new name next week, The Verge reported on Tuesday, citing a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
Delhi riots: SC refuses to quash Delhi Assembly's summons to Facebook VP
Jul 08, 2021, at 11:19 pm
New Delhi/UNI: The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the plea filed by Facebook India Vice President and MD Ajit Mohan and others challenging the summons issued by Delhi Assembly's Peace and Harmony committee for failing to appear before it as a witness in connection with the north-east Delhi riots matter.
Jul 08, 2021, at 11:10 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: The Supreme Court has allowed Facebook to remain silent on questions on the issues of law and order which are the domain of the Central government while asking the social media giant to appear before the Delhi Assembly panel in 2020 riots probe, media reports said.
Ravi Shankar Prasad praises Google, Facebook for compliance with new Indian IT rules
Jul 04, 2021, at 07:27 am
New Delhi/IBNS: IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said removal of offensive posts by social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Google in pursuance of the new IT rules is a "big step towards transparency".
Facebook takes down over 30 million posts in compliance with new Indian IT rules : Report
Jul 03, 2021, at 05:22 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Facebook took down over 30 million content pieces across 10 violation categories and Instagram took action against about two million pieces across nine categories during May 15-June 15 in the country, the social media giant said in its maiden monthly compliance report as mandated by the Indian IT rules, according to media reports.
Tharoor-led parliamentary panel rejects online meeting with Facebook
Jun 20, 2021, at 04:29 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The parliamentary panel on information technology, headed by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, has conveyed a strict message to Facebook that the company representatives will have to physically appear in front of the panel notwithstanding what Facebook company policies say, according to an ANI report.
May 26, 2021, at 02:18 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Hours before the expiry of the three-month deadline for compliance with the Intermediary Guidelines, announced by the Indian government in February, social media giant Facebook said it will comply with the new rules, media reports said.
New privacy policy update is not 'mandatory': WhatsApp tells Delhi HC
May 15, 2021, at 12:42 am
New Delhi/UNI: The Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp on Friday told the Delhi High Court that its privacy policy update is not 'mandatory' in nature as it does not force any user to accept the same.
Supreme Court pulls up Facebook, WhatsApp over privacy policy
Feb 15, 2021, at 08:31 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: The Supreme Court on Monday came down heavily on the social media giant Facebook and its messaging app, WhatsApp over privacy policy, saying, "You may be $ 2-3 trillion company but people's privacy is more valuable for them and it is our duty to protect their privacy."
Jammu and Kashmir: JKSSB's portal receives more than 2 lakh application forms for various posts
Jan 22, 2021, at 10:34 pm
Srinagar: The J&K Service Selection Board (JKSSB) Wednesday said that till Tuesday the board had received 2,22,285 online applications for various categories of posts advertised under advertisement notification No 04 of 2020 while 913 applications had been received for the posts advertised under notice No 05 of 2020 since the commencement of online application forms.
Twitter executives grilled on blocking Amit Shah account at parliamentary panel meet
Jan 22, 2021, at 05:06 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Executives from Facebook and Twitter, who appeared before a parliamentary committee on Thursday, were grilled heavily on why they blocked the accounts of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in November.