Smartphones Transformed India. Now Indians Are Turning Them Against The Modi Government. buzzfeednews.com/article/pranav #longread
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Scoop: Kashmiris disappeared from WhatsApp overnight due to a FB policy that deletes inactive accounts automatically after 120 days. The internet has been shut down in Kashmir for 4 months now.
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“I’ve developed a chronic cough since I came to Lahore — and I haven’t even seen the worst of the smog season yet.”
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India is Creating a national facial recognition system, and critics are afraid of what will happen next -
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Violators will be jailed for up to three years and fined up to $7,000.
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An Indian court is trying hard to get WhatsApp to break its encryption, possibly at the behest of the government. The ruling could have major consequences on not just WhatsApp but all tech platforms in the country.
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#ExpressExplained | What are Articles 370, 35A? — a quick explainer you must read
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The announcement comes at the same time the company said that it lost 130,000 subscribers in the United States from April through June.
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The order issued by Higher Education Secretary R Subrahmanyam last week lays down a mechanism seeking to “connect all the student’s Twitter/Facebook/Instagram account” with social media accounts of higher education institutions as well as the HRD ministry
"Water is provided only to the Brahmins and people fight with us when we approach the hand pump."
Dalit residents in the UP's Chitrakoot region are being denied access to water sources by upper castes.
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Ayushmann Khurrana’s new film 'Article 15' is the latest addition to the archives of the Brahmin-Saviour complex huffp.st/iX7Lmma
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More than 120 million of the app’s 500 million users are from India.
“We don’t want our services to be used to manipulate people," Facebook wrote in a blog post.
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The Congress had on Monday moved the EC to stall the release of the film on the grounds that it is a politically-motivated film.
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The author talks about her memoir, shedding her secret, and how a wave of Dalit assertion in art, music and culture could change the game for a new generation.
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Copies of diary entries that are with the IT dept note that BS #Yeddyurappa paid the BJP central committee 1,000 crore; Arun Jaitley and Nitin Gadkari 150 crore each; Rajnath Singh 100 crore; and LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi 50 crore each. bit.ly/2Fsspec
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In the FIR that Dutt registered on February 21, she said that she had been the victim of abusive threats and harassment on social media.
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Ranbir Kapoor called Rajkumar Hirani, accused of sexual assault, an 'amazing human being,' because Bollywood is all about sucking up #MeToo huffp.st/cJ0uad8
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.: Do #ElectoralBonds increase the thickness of veil on political funding? If someone funds a political party heavily, does it encourage crony capitalism? Don't you as a citizen deserve to know where the money is coming from?
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Hasan Minhaj analysed the present state of Indian politics on Netflix's Patriot Act. The comedian is all set to face the trolls.
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Four people are in custody after shootings at two mosques in Christchurch. "This is one of New Zealand's darkest days," said prime minister Jacinda Ardern.
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"An Indian-Canadian woman with her own late night show? Now that is a dream come true."
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Nothing shines better on the red carpet than the empty morals of Bollywood. huffingtonpost.in/entry/despite-
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This is the highest since September 2016, and up from 5.9% in February 2018.
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Noah said that while he hoped the two countries don’t go to war, but if they did, it would be the “most entertaining” war of all time.
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“There’s politics, religion, enemy nations, and a surge of nationalism in this situation. It’s the perfect storm.”
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BREAKING: Commander #Abhinandan Vardhaman, the Indian Air Force pilot who is in Pakistani custody will be released on Friday.
called the pilot’s release a “peace gesture”.
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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan called the pilot's release a "peace gesture".
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The area has been on high alert amid warnings of retaliation after India's fighter jets crossed the Line of Control and destroyed a Jaish terror camp.
"I can't believe a movie about a woman's period just won an Oscar." bzfd.it/2H17QXb
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In the wake of the Pulwama attack, the short-lived group claims to have successfully targetted 50 people for social media posts it deems objectionable. scroll.in/article/913666
The ‘gully rappers’ from Mumbai are at the forefront of a hip-hop revolution that appears to be taking over India’s entertainment industry.
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There are no Apple stores yet in India, and iPhone users have been stranded with third-party service providers, who they say do not live up to the premium brand’s promise in the rest of the world.
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Questions sent to the Prime Minister’s Office went unanswered.
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It also overruled Financial Advisers’ recommendation for an escrow account after PMO forced a waiver of sovereign or bank guarantee. thehindu.com/news/national/
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