Twitter Inc on Thursday announced that it will start labelling accounts of key government officials, institutions and state-backed media accounts. “Election labels contain additional information about Twitter accounts for specified political candidates. The label appears on the profile page of the candidate’s Twitter account and on the Tweets sent and Retweeted by the candidate’s account. […]
United States President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Thursday banning all transactions with Chinese company ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok and WeChat, within 45 days citing national security concerns. “The TikTok app may be used for disinformation campaigns that benefit the Chinese Communist Party, and the United States must take aggressive action […]
Prompted by the anti-China sentiment in India, Chinese smart phone maker Vivo Communication Technology Co’s Indian arm Vivo India and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) have parted ways for the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020. According to sources, “Vivo has had its own share of issues and the BCCI optics to […]
PM Narendra Modi laid the foundation of the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya amid thunderous applause from people across the country watching the big occasion unfold on television. The nation was glued to their TVs to watch the ground-breaking Bhoomi Pujan at the Ram Janambhoomi site in Ayodhya on Wednesday. Considering the coronavirus pandemic, only 175 […]
Amid the raging Coronavirus crisis, economy is taking a big hit and is steamrolling the biggest companies. Mukesh Ambani held RIL’s net worth has been falling by about $300 million every day for last 2 months and a total of 28 percent due as the stock markets across the world have been on an unprecedented free fall.
New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi today encouraged a #withoutfilter discussion with thousands of schoolchildren at his annual “Pariksha Pe Charcha” event to address questions on exam stress. “Let’s start talking then, as they say, #WithoutFilter. We’ll talk like friends, mistakes can happen. And, in my case, if I make a mistake the friends in […]
London Sonam Kapoor, who is in London right now to shoot for an ad, took to her Twitter account today to share her scary experience of taking an Uber in the city. Sonam tweeted in the early hours of Thursday that while travelling with Uber in London she had the scariest experience with her driver, […]
New Delhi Amazon.com Inc founder and chief executive officer Jeff Bezos on Wednesday said the company will use its global footprint to export $10 billion worth of goods manufactured under the government’s Make In India initiative. Amazon aims to achieve this target by 2025, Bezos added. Speaking on the first day of the two-day summit […]
New Delhi Lohri, the harvest festival of north India, will be celebrated on January 14 this year. Lohri is also known as Lohadi or Lal Loi. The joyous festival that celebrates the new harvest and marks the end of the winter season, is celebrated with bonfires and dance. Usually the family of the newly-weds or the family in which […]