NEW DELHI: The Centre has widened its scrutiny of messaging platforms with username-based communication, with the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) issuing notices to Telegram and Signal days after directing WhatsApp to justify its proposed username feature and pause its rollout in India.According to sources quoted by PTI, the notices to Telegram and […]
Indian student denied entry to the US over WhatsApp group? A viral post urged international students to execise caution before they join any WhatsApp grpup, citing a case of an Indian student being denied entry to the US over WhatsApp activity. The post did not detail what exactly happened but claimed that a student who […]
A woman in Rajasthan‘s Banswara district has filed a police complaint alleging that her husband, who is working in Kuwait, ended their marriage by sending a triple talaq message through WhatsApp.Police have registered a case against the accused, identified as Ashiq Iqbal, a resident of Gorakh Imli village who has reportedly been employed in Kuwait […]
WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum is behind the largest single donation ever made to an Israeli hospital. Co-founder and former CEO of WhatsApp Jan Koum has created a ripple as he donated $200 million to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, the largest single donation ever made to an Israeli hospital. While Koum is known for […]
A group of young Republicans ran a WhatsApp group chat in which they repeatedly used racial slurs and discussed dozens of ways to murder Black Americans, according to reports by the Miami Herald and The Floridian.The WhatsApp group was created last September by Abel Alexander Carvajal, the Republican Party’s Miami-Dade County secretary, a 23-year-old second-year […]
An Arab man appeared in Sharjah court over an alleged WhatsApp spelling error/Representative Image A message sent in seconds can trigger consequences that last far longer. According to Gulf Today, an Arab man has appeared before the Sharjah Misdemeanour Court after what he described as a simple spelling mistake in a WhatsApp exchange led to […]
WhatsApp Web Calling Launched Globally: What UAE Users Need to Know WhatsApp has begun a global rollout of voice and video calling features on WhatsApp Web, allowing users to make and receive calls directly from their browser without installing the desktop app. This update brings long-awaited calling functionality to the web version of the platform, […]
Two men have been charged with a terrorist plot to carry out a mass shooting over Halloween weekend in the US state of Michigan. The suspects, Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud, scouted potential locations in Ferndale, a suburb of Detroit, and expressed support for the Islamic State group online, federal prosecutors said, as per BBC. […]
Jaipur, October 16 (Udaipur Kiran): Demonstrating the state government’s zero tolerance policy against corruption, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Rajasthan has achieved a major milestone by completing 100 successful actions in a single year based on complaints received through its Helpline 1064 and WhatsApp number 9413502834. According to ACB officials, this is the first time the […]
Supreme Court of India has recently dismissed a petition filed by a lady doctor who claimed that her access to WhatsApp was a fundamental right, after her account was blocked by the messaging platform. However, the Apex Court ruled that the ruse of a private messaging service does not fall under the purview of constitutionally […]
