Category: Social

Govt to set up panels to hear appeals against social media platforms

[ad_1] New Delhi Grievance redressal panels would soon be set up by government to hear users’ appeals against content moderation decisions taken by social media entities like Meta and Twitter. In a gazette notification issued on Friday, the government has amended the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, ...

Centre notifies new rules giving it power on social media moderation | Latest News India

[ad_1] : The Union government on Friday notified amendments to the controversial information technology (IT) rules, 2021, making a provision for new government “grievance redressal” panels to hear complaints against content moderation decisions taken by social media companies. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} The panel members will be appointed by the government which, civil liberties activists have said, ...

India amends IT Rules: What is Grievance Appellate Committee that Centre has introduced?

[ad_1] The Centre on Friday amended IT (Intermediary Guidelines & Digital Media Ethics) Rules and made it mandatory for intermediaries like Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook etc to comply with the Constitution of India provisions and India’s sovereign laws. The government also notified rules under which it will set up appellate committees to redress grievances that ...

India accuses UNSC of ‘political considerations’ for failure to tackle terror

[ad_1] Home » Politics » Terrorism » India accuses UNSC of ‘political considerations’ for failure to tackle terror By Quaid Najmi Mumbai, Oct 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) Raising many eyebrows, India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Friday directly accused the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) of ‘political considerations’ which prevents the global body from acting against ...

Laws applicable to platforms regardless of who owns it: India on Twitter rules post Musk’s takeover

[ad_1] Image Source : AP A sign is pictured outside the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022 Highlights India’s expectation of Twitter complying with the rules will not change, Rajeev Chandrasekhar said The Minister of State for Electronics & Information said “How does it matter to govt who owns it?” Twitter has ...

NIA apprehends top Kerala PFI leader

[ad_1] Home » General » Crime » NIA apprehends top Kerala PFI leader Posted By: Gopi October 27, 2022 Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) A month after the Popular Front of India (PFI) was banned and its top leadership arrested, an NIA team nabbed its former secretary C.A. Rauf from his house at Pattambi in Palakkad ...

Why two Indians disappeared on a July night in Kenya

[ad_1] Two Indian tourists and their local driver disappeared in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on a July night. More than two months after the incident, nine policemen have been arrested in connection with the case, which India says it is “closely watching”. The BBC pieces together the mystery and highlights the many unanswered questions. [ad_2] ...

3 booked in TRS legislators’ poaching case; BJP moves Telangana high court | Latest News India

[ad_1] The Cyberabad police on Thursday filed a criminal case against three people who were detained from a farmhouse in Hyderabad on Wednesday night with a “huge amount of cash” for allegedly trying to poach four Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) lawmakers into the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Hours later, the state BJP moved the Telangana ...

Modi speaks to Sunak, calls for early conclusion of FTA

[ad_1] Home » Diplomacy » Modi speaks to Sunak, calls for early conclusion of FTA Posted By: Gopi October 27, 2022 New Delhi, Oct 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday spoke to his new United Kingdom counterpart Rishi Sunak and congratulated him on assuming charge, while seeking early conclusion of the India-UK foreign ...

OPPO fastest-growing with 14% growth in Q3 among top 5 vendors in India

[ad_1] Home » General » Business » OPPO fastest-growing with 14% growth in Q3 among top 5 vendors in India New Delhi, Oct 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) Global smart device brand OPPO on Thursday revealed it has emerged as the fastest-growing vendor (year-on-year) among the top five vendors in India, according to the Q3 2022 shipment report ...