Govt on 4 February ordered Twitter to block 1,178 accounts with links to Pakistan, Sikh extremist groups that were spreading misinformation on the farmer protests.
Tamil Nadu came second for its e-governance efforts, followed by UP and Bengal. The online event was attended by President Kovind, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, among others.
The IT ministry, in its notice, said that showing Leh as part of J&K is a deliberate attempt by Twitter to undermine the will of the Parliament which has declared Ladakh as a UT.
These computers are believed to contain data on India's security, citizens and important govt functionaries, including the PM, NSA and home minister, among others.
Panel members questioned IT ministry for failing to lay down protocols on internet shutdown 7 months after SC order. The ministry, meanwhile, said 5G will be rolled out by March 2021.
MeitY order says decision to allow work from home aims to protect employees from contracting infection, but maintaining productivity is non-negotiable.
IT and Communications used to function as one ministry until 2016, when the department of electronics & information technology was made a separate portfolio.
For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.
Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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