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Meta to lay off more than 11,000 employees globally as Facebook owner battles soaring costs

The company said it would pay 16 weeks of base pay plus two additional weeks for every year of service as a part of the severance package and all remaining paid time off.

Markandey Katju back on social media, with hot takes and tales of encounter with ‘young ladies’

From explaining why Urdu poetry is 'thoroughly secular' to hoping for reuniting India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, the former Supreme Court judge is dishing out posts one after another.

Meta to begin large-scale layoffs this week that will affect thousands of employees

Meta's stock market value has reduced by $67 billion. This comes amid slowing global economic growth, competition, privacy changes from Apple & concerns about the metaverse.

Meta India chief Ajit Mohan steps down after 4 years to join rival Snap, says report

Manish Chopra, director and head of partnerships at Meta India, will take over on an interim capacity.

After Amit Malviya’s FIR, The Wire files police complaint against own former employee for ‘forgery, fabrication’

BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya had Saturday lodged an FIR against The Wire's founder and editors for forgery, cheating and defamation, in connection with the now retracted stories

Russia adds Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to list of ‘terrorists and extremists’ organisations

A Moscow court in June rejected an appeal by Facebook parent Meta after it was found guilty of 'extremist activity' in Russia in March.

Not a ‘rapist maulana’ – video showing Muslim man dragging ‘unconscious’ woman scripted

In a video, an elderly Muslim man is seen dragging an unconscious woman to a dark room. On being confronted by the cameraperson, he says he is ‘treating the woman’ in the ‘name of god’.

I took a 30-day social media detox. Here’s how it helped me

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

Metaverse is exciting, futuristic technology. But we need to ponder over its potential misuse

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

Wordle, BeReal & Facebook — apps becoming less addictive as they ditch dopamine model

The move has come in response to several years of backlash against Big Tech platforms over safety concerns in rewarding attention-seeking behaviour.

On Camera

I finally got to say goodbye to Zubeen Garg. ‘Roi Roi Binale’ left me in tears

I wasn't home when others could pay their respects to the singer or catch a last glimpse. The movie was my way of accessing him one final time.

Consumer Price Index gets up to date. Airfare, OTT plans, e-commerce prices in new basket—MoSPI secy

New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.

Joint production, closer ties, emerging tech: The foundation of new defence pact between India & US

The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.