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Thursday, August 14, 2025
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Topic: Instagram

Instagram founders build website which gives live updates on spread of Covid-19

RT.live uses a statistic called an effective reproduction number, which tracks the average number of people who catch the virus from a single infected person.

Verses in the time of virus: Poetry Live unites 71 quarantined poets on Instagram

Indian Novels Collective and Mumbai bookstore Kitab Khana brought together renowned and new-generation poets together on Instagram via daily lockdown poetry sessions.

India-Pakistan candle vigils at Wagah have now moved to Instagram in coronavirus lockdown

While tension continues on the LOC, Pakistani singer Ali Sethi’s Instagram lives with Indian celebrities has opened a new gateway for post-Partition nostalgia.

Delhi airport records highest social media engagement globally in late March during lockdown

From 15 — 31 March 2020, Delhi airport witnessed the highest engagement and use of ‘proactive communication’ on its social media platforms.

Katrina or Malaika — don’t judge the privileged during Covid-19 lockdown. They are like us

Grudging Katrina Kaif for posting videos of herself doing daily chores shows that we are quick to judge the privileged — people who are just like us.

Instagram influencers are still sharing posts of sunsets and resorts, coronavirus be damned

With airlines dropping flights, countries tightening borders, and concerts being cancelled — there's only one place to escape coronavirus outbreak: Instagram.

Quitting my Instagram addiction is more difficult than my Paleo diet plan

There are blissed-out millennial monks who have quit social media and say they are more ‘present’ now because they have conquered all their base addictions.

TikTokers dubbed ‘Shudras of internet’: Indians didn’t spare even social media from casteism

The irony is that social media, which was supposed to be a democratic space for every section of society, has been categorised into caste hierarchies.

Twitter testing ‘fleets’: exciting feature or late to the trend after Snapchat, Instagram?

Twitter’s new feature ‘Fleets’, which is currently being tested, will see tweets vanish after 24 hours without getting any retweets, likes or replies

Facebook removes accounts linked to Delhi firm for sponsored anti-Saudi content

According to Facebook's findings, content was inauthentic and could have been backed by a government or foreign entity seeking to manipulate public opinion.

On Camera

Biting terror, doggone dilemma, urban menace. Indian TV war over Delhi street dogs

News channels were also in two minds about removing stray dogs to the government dog pounds. NDTV took credit for it and CNN-News 18 called ‘controversial order’.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.