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Modi government on Thursday, retaliated against Twitter on Koo. The govt delivered its response hours after Twitter issued a statement expressing concern over a potential threat to freedom of expression in India. In a statement, the Ministry of Electronics and IT accused Twitter of attempting to dictate its terms to the world's largest democracy.buy isotretinoin generic buy isotretinoin generic It also denounced the statement as baseless, false and an attempt to defame India. The government response first appeared not on Twitter, but on Koo. The same press release appeared later on the ministry's Twitter handle. Koo is an Indian microblogging and social networking and was founded on March, 1,  2020. It has won the Govt of India's Aatmanirbhar App Innovation Challenge in August...

During the Covid-19 pandemic, volunteers of the Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam have come forward to bury people who died of Covid and whose family does not have the resources to conduct a decent funeral. Also, in certain cases, family members refuse to take the corpse to the crematorium fearing that they too will be infected. According to the organization's office bearers, their 4,000 odd volunteers have helped to cremate and bury 2,064 people across the state from April 1 to May 25 as per the Covid protocols. During the first wave of the pandemic, they conducted funerals of 1,350 people. The TMMK, an organization fighting for the rights of Muslims in a democratic manner, has been involved in voluntary activities including blood donation and rendering service during the Tsunami....

On Monday, a 22-year-old woman was allegedly raped in an ambulance by an ambulance driver and his associate after they promised her food. The incident took place in Jaipur, the police said. As per an NDTV report, the accused drove to a secluded area where they raped the woman. The woman is married, Surendra Pancholi, the S.H.O of Moti Doongri Station, said. Based on the woman's complaint, a case has been registered against the accused. The Police informed that the woman's statement has been recorded and her medical examination has been carried out. The ambulance driver and his friend have been taken into custody and are being interrogated.

Situation has escalated for Baba Ramdev since Wednesday, when the IMA (Indian Medical Association) slapped the Yoga Guru with a Rs 1000 Crore defamation notice over his recent statements on allopathy medicines. The IMA had appealed to the PM to take appropriate action under sedition and other charges against Ramdev for "spearheading a misinformation campaign on COVID-19 vaccination". Several social media users criticized Ramdev after he called allopathy a "stupid science" and also alleged that lakhs had died after taking allopathic medicines for Covid-19. Several Twitter users asked the authorities to arrest Ramdev. And in the latest video, Ramdev can be seen challenging the authorities in response to the #ArrestRamdev trends on Twitter. "Khair, arrest toh unka baap bhi nahi kar s...

A Turkish military plane carrying medical supplies to fight COVID-19 left on Tuesday for India’s capital New Delhi, Turkey’s Defense Ministry announced on Twitter.canadian pharmacy gaetzpharmacy.com no prescription The plane was carrying medical supplies, including 630 oxygen tubes, five oxygen generators, 50 ventilators, and 50,000 boxes of tablet medicines prepared by the Turkish Red Crescent and Turkey’s Health Ministry. The boxes of aid wore the words of 13th-century poet Mevlana Rumi – “There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness”  and a message: “With love from Turkey to the people of India.” Ibrahim Altan, head of the Turkish Red Crescent, told reporters that they sent the aid by orders of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and with help from Turkey’s Foreign Mini...

The sit-in Farmers' Protest against the black laws has completed 6 months today 26th May 2021. It is the day the BJP government completes 7 years in power. The Sanyukt Kisan Morcha has said that the farmers will observe it as a Black Day. While the organization has encouraged everyone to celebrate Buddha Purnima, it has also asked the protestors at all the protest sites to put up a black flag and burn the effigies of the ruling government. The farmers have planned to sharpen the protest and have warned the government that they cannot be frightened or defeated. They have declared that they will not leave the Delhi borders until the government takes back all the three black farm laws. On Sunday, 12 major political Indian parties including the Congress, JD(S), NCP, Trinamool Congress...

WhatsApp on Wednesday moved the Delhi High Court against the Centre’s recently imposed IT Rules that would require the messaging services to “trace” the origin of particular messages sent on the service. WhatsApp through its statement said, “Requiring messaging apps to ‘trace’ chats is the equivalent of asking us to keep a fingerprint of every single message sent on WhatsApp, which would break end-to-end encryption and fundamentally undermines people’s right to privacy.” The WhatsApp spokesperson said, “We have consistently joined civil society and experts around the world in opposing requirements that would violate the privacy of our users. In the meantime, we will also continue to engage with the Government of India on practical solutions aimed at keeping people safe, including res...

The deadline to comply with the new legal rules meant for big social media platforms, which were issued by the government three months ago, is ending on Tuesday, threatening the operations of the likes of Twitter in India. According to top official sources, social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and others, which were required to abide by the rules notified in the gazette of India on February 25 under Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code Rules, 2021, have failed to comply on many accounts till date. The government’s rules will come into effect from May 26. “If social media companies do not obey the rules, they may lose their status and protections as intermediaries and may become liable for criminal action as per the existing laws of India,” top official...