New Delhi, May 26 (MS): The coronavirus variant first detected in India has now been officially recorded in 53 territories, a World Health Organization (WHO) report shows. Additionally, the WHO has received information from unofficial sources that the B.1.617 variant has been found in seven other territories, figures in the …
Read More »WhatsApp sues Indian govt, says new media rules mean end to privacy
New Delhi, May 26 (KMS): The lawsuit, described to Reuters by people familiar with it, asks the Delhi High Court to declare that one of the new rules is a violation of privacy rights in India’s constitution since it requires social media companies to identify the “first originator of information” …
Read More »Court of inquiry into shooting down of Indian MI-17 chopper upheld
Chandigarh, May 25(KMS): India’s Armed Forces Tribunal has upheld the Court of Inquiry, instituted by the Air Force into the shooting down of a Mi-17 helicopter near Srinagar airfield in February 2019. Disposing off a petition by two IAF officers, the Tribunal’s Bench comprising Justice Rajendra Menon and Lt Gen …
Read More »Indian police further tighten noose around social media users
Srinagar, May 25 (KMS): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, in yet another move to further restrict social media use, Director General of Indian Police Dilbagh Singh has directed the police to use all the technology and related tools to keep a check on the social media users. Chairing …
Read More »Will India Block Facebook, Twitter, Instagram in 2 Days as New IT Rules Come Into Effect?
New Delhi, May 25 (KMS): Will Indians lose access to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram in two days? These social media giants have been put on notice by the Centre with a warning about their failure to comply with a set of guidelines that will come into effect in two days, …
Read More »India on alert ahead of second powerful cyclone in 10 days
New Delhi, May 25 (KMS): Cyclone Yaas is expected to make landfall on Wednesday and could pack sustained winds of up to 165 kilometers per hour (102 miles per hour), the India Meteorological Department said. It said the storm was forecast to hit the eastern states of West Bengal and …
Read More »India warns against mass farmers protest, citing COVID ‘super-spreader’ risk
New Delhi, May 25 (KMS): Indian government leaders appealed to farmers to call off a mass protest this week for fear it could prove a viral “super-spreader” event as the country’s overall death toll from COVID-19 crossed 300,000 on Monday. Over a third have died over the past three weeks …
Read More »Police raid Twitter offices over ‘manipulated media’ label
New Delhi, May 25 (KMS): Delhi police, controlled by India’s central government, visited two offices of Twitter — in the national capital state of Delhi and Gurgaon, in the neighboring state of Haryana — to seek more information about Twitter’s rationale to label one of the tweets by ruling partly …
Read More »49 bodies found, 26 more missing 4 days after Cyclone Tauktae sank barge off Mumbai coast
New Delhi, May 21 (KMS): A total of 49 bodies have been found in the Arabian Sea near the spot where the ill-fated barge ‘P305’ sunk on the night intervening May 17 and May 18 as Cyclone Tauktae ravaged past India’s western coast. After more than three days of search …
Read More »Not allowed to speak, Mamata calls PM’s Covid meeting ‘insulting’
Kolkata, May 21 (KMS): The Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee has said that chief ministers were reduced to mere puppets and not allowed to speak despite being invited at Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s video-conference meeting on the Covid situation with district magistrates. She said that the PM was …
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