Madras High Court has held that social media companies cannot escape liability for the damage done to society through fake news or rumours spread through their platforms, and said they need to be held...

Seemingly innocuous practices often have a nasty way of snowballing into serious — criminal — misdemeanour. This is what appeared to have happened a few days ago when it was revealed that the all-...

At other times, wars and pandemics have inspired great art or literature. Not so the Covid-19 pandemic.In keeping with the times, so far the pandemic has inspired memes and quips, social media wars ov...

Union minister Piyush Goyal, who was the butt of jokes on social media on Thursday after he said Albert Einstein had discovered gravity, issued two clarifications but did not once admit that he had ma...

Lady Luck is smiling on the two kids, Jashika Khan and Mohammad Azajuddin, who became stars on the social media after a video of them somersaulting and cartwheeling on the way to school went viral.On ...

The Special Cell of Delhi Police has registered a case of sedition against Chairman of Delhi Minority Commission Zafarul Islam Khan for a controversial social media post, an officer said on Saturday.T...

Durjoy Datta is perhaps one of the most self-aware young authors of our generation who isn’t afraid to call a spade a spade. Riding high on the launch of his new book Wish I Could Tell You, the auth...

The Congress on Wednesday asked the government to flash its “red eyes” at the Chinese, not the Opposition in India, recounting a suggestion Narendra Modi had made before becoming Prime Minister. O...

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)’s head of Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) Ajit Singh doesn’t wish to read much into the threat of online corrupt approaches to the players. The Interna...

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