The Centre on Tuesday issued an order to block access to 43 mobile applications in the country citing their engagement in activities “which are prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India,...

India’s technology solutions have the potential to go global, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday. Addressing the Bangalore Tech Summit 2020 (BTS2020) virtually, he said: “India...

The shackles have finally come off the technology industry. The Modi government has framed new guidelines that will allow the Big Boys of the tech world and the scatter dust of business process outso...

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Wipro has announced a Rs 9,500-crore share buyback programme that may lead to promoters’ stake inching up further. At a board meeting on Tuesday, the directors approved a proposal to repurchase...

The urgent need to conduct contact-tracing to slow the spread of the Covid-19 infection has brought out strange ironies. In both Kerala and Uttar Pradesh, the governments have chosen to allow the scru...

The Centre’s move to ban Tiktok and 58 other Chinese apps is a temporary measure and the companies will get the opportunity to submit their clarifications. Under Rule 7 and 9 of the IT Rules, t...

The possibility of the Indian subsidiaries of the Chinese companies which own the banned 59 apps closing down looks remote. Legal experts are of the view that though the Centre has the powers to bloc...

For some years now, the growing challenge to journalism has come from the increasing use of predictable laws. These are the Sections relating to sedition and criminal defamation in the Indian Penal Co...

The government was forced into damage-control mode on Monday after news broke about efforts to amend the IT Act and get online platforms to track down “unlawful’’ content and break the end-to-en...