San Francisco, Sep 5 (IANS) Twitter’s new terms of service that apparently allow other companies to re-publish content on its platform without any compensation have sparked widespread online criticism. The clause that has received flak…
Hong Kong, Sep 5 (IANS) Authorities in Hong Kong on Tuesday replaced a 24-hours BBC World Service radio channel, that has been running for 39 years, with China National Radio’s Mandarin-language broadcast. An online petition…
Lucknow, Sep 5 (IANS) A radio channel has partnered with the Lucknow Metro to play customised content across all metro stations, an official of the channel told IANS on Tuesday as the metro began its…
By Mudita Girotra New Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS) This year, as around 2.35 million Muslims from across the world gathered in Makkah “to renew their sense of purpose in life, erase past sins and beg…
By Kishori Sud Lonavala, Sep 5 (IANS) Critically acclaimed actor Manoj Bajpayee won his first National award for the film “Satya” and since then has worked in a number of films where some worked well…
Mumbai, Sep 4 (IANS) Fans of legendary actor Dilip Kumar will be updated about his health on a daily basis via social media. Dilip Kumar was last month hospitalised for a week. The actor’s family…
New York, Sep 4 (IANS) Dating websites which claim to match people with complex computer analysis of their traits and preferences may not really work, suggests new research. The study published in the journal Psychological…
Kolkata, Sep 3 (IANS) A 58-year-old bookstore owner was arrested in West Bengal for posting a distorted picture of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Facebook, police said. Swadesh Das was arrested in Nowda area of…
San Francisco, Sep 2 (IANS) A day after a report went viral criticising Google for using its muscle to bury anything that is spoken against it, a former Forbes reporter has claimed that she was…
New Delhi, Sep 1 (IANS) Twitter has frozen the official account of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the Dera Sacha Sauda chief who has been convicted in two rape cases and sentenced to 20 years in…
San Francisco, Sep 1 (IANS) Facebook-owned Instagram will now allow users to view its most popular feature Stories, both on mobile web and desktop, reports said on Friday. “Initially, the feature will allow desktop and…
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) Media conglomerate Asianet News Network on Thursday announced the acquisition of Tamil langauge based digital news platform Newsfast. According to Asianet News Network, post-acquisition, the group’s digital news media reach…
Kolkata, Aug 31 (IANS) Two teenage girls, suspected to be playing the macabre online game Blue Whale Challenge, were interrogated and counselled in West Bengal, police said on Thursday. Two Class 9 girls of Barasat…
Geneva, Aug 31 (IANS) UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has said that US President Donald Trump’s attacks on the media could amount to incitement and embolden followers to attack certain…
San Francisco, Aug 30 (IANS) Apart from its in-house team of journalists, Snapchat took the help of local police to fact-check user-generated coverage from the recent neo-Nazi protests in Virginia before highlighting the posts, the…
Berlin, Aug 29 (IANS) German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday called on Turkey to release German citizens held in pre-trial detention without justification and urged Ankara to respect the principles of the rule of law….
San Francisco, Aug 29 (IANS) Taking ahead its battle against the spread of fake news and misinformation, Facebook has decided to stop Pages that share fake news regularly from buying any ads from the company….
New Delhi, Aug 28 (IANS) Twitter on Monday launched a new media agency programme named “#TweetToTheTop”, dedicated to young media executives. Eleven agencies from global media and advertising networks including Dentsu, GroupM, IPG and Omnicom…
Chandigarh, Aug 28 (IANS) The son of a journalist, who had first exposed sexual exploitation of female disciples of Dera Sacha Sauda sect by sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in 2002, on Monday said…
Panaji, Aug 28 (IANS) Goa Health Minister and BJP leader Vishwajit Rane, who won the Valpoi Assembly bypoll on Monday, alleged that a mining company, which also operates a top local cable news channel in…