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Sunday, August 10, 2025
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Topic: Internet

What happens when TikTok’s popularity soars and internet gets less American

There has been anxiety in technology circles that the world is being divided into two or more versions of the internet- broadly the American, Chinese, European and Indian.

The web might be a monopolist’s best friend

It's possible that superstar companies dominate capitalism simply because the internet has made dominance easier.

Govt to launch national mission for digital content in Indian languages, says IT secretary

IT Secretary Ajay Sawhney says the mission will help people access digital content, especially on government websites, in their native languages.

How an Apple Mac from Dhaka changed militant group ULFA’s ‘publicity wing’

As a journalist reporting from a conflict zone, I am always intrigued by the publicity wing of the militant outfits.

Go to Lahaul-Spiti for ‘internet ka vanvaas’. Digital India & telecom companies skipped it

The goal of Digital India cannot be achieved without ending the digital deprivation of its most marginalised communities.

The internet & social media isn’t bad. How we school our children about it is

An internet 101 class in which students are taught how to develop better judgment for all kinds of information could limit the negative effects of the internet culture.

As US-China tech cold war on Huawei heats up, India is the ground zero

India has the world’s largest potential digital market but lacks national tech champions who can adequately exploit it.

No way PM Modi could’ve used email in 1988, says man who brought internet to India

B.K. Syngal, former chairman of Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited, confirmed that commercial internet came to India only in 1995.

Several tech brands besides Facebook and Google are tracking us

Facebook and Google would be able to buy data from other ad market players even if they were banned from gathering information about users’ browsing.

The web is 30 years old. What better time to fight for its future

If we give up on building a better web now, then the web will not have failed us. We will have failed the web.

On Camera

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

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.