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Friday, December 19, 2025
TopicInternet ban

Topic: internet ban

Internet, cell services restored in Afghanistan after 48-hour ‘Taliban-ordered’ outage

The Taliban gave no official reason for the services going down or the restoration, but a source in the information department cited technical reasons.

Taliban enforces internet blackout in Afghanistan, citing crackdown on immorality

Earlier this month, several provinces lost fibre-optic connections after Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada issued a decree banning the service to prevent immorality.

Pakistanis are using VPN to access X. Govt is defying court order to lift ban

The Sindh High Court specifically ordered the restoration of X within a week in March. However, it is yet to be restored fully.

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What the key political events of 2025 tell us about Narendra Modi and India’s future

From Operation Sindoor to India-US tensions to the EC controversies, a clear understanding has emerged about where the politics is headed now.

Antitrust watchdog Competition Commission to probe IndiGo flight disruptions

While the commission didn’t mention provisions under which IndiGo's market domination would be examined, Competition Act 2002 prohibits abuse of dominant position by any enterprise.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.