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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
TopicSocial media influencers

Topic: social media influencers

MP govt hits ‘like’ on tribal influencers, grooms them to be its digital messengers

Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh government has rolled out a digital literacy programme for tribal influencers to equip them with skills to monetise social media, promote...

India’s Got Blatant—influencers are peddling soft porn

If social media content creators refuse to remain within social norms, legal and regulatory frameworks have a duty to step in and prevent social decay.

Search for an Indian Carl Sagan is on. Science influencers are being trained in labs and likes

Indian institutions have realised the potential of social media. They are conducting workshops for content creators on how to become effective science influencers—and get both facts and fusion right.

Like & share or unsubscribe? Delhi HC may decide what influencers can or cannot say in their videos

It'll examine boundaries of free speech for social media influencers, following a spate of cases over 'disparaging' content about consumer brands. The latest involves a whey protein brand.

UK’s TikTok army to stop immigrants—influencer envoy is the new era in diplomacy

For the Rishi Sunak govt, the key to solving the migrant issue lies not in careful policy-making or international cooperation but in using the TikTok algorithm for ‘dystopian sponcon’.

Parties in MP want a piece of Baghelkhand influencers. Reels are the new political manifestos

Influencer Cell is the new IT Cell in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. But YouTubers and Reel makers being wooed by parties are worried about the generation that can switch loyalties with one swipe.

Rajasthan govt taps into reach of social media influencers, will pay up Rs 5 lakh to share ads

The Congress government recently issued a notification inviting influencers to expand its promotional messages on their popular handles.

BJP eyes social media stars for 2024 campaign. Leaders to ‘bond’ with singers, dancers, vloggers

Each district unit will identify 100 influencers & senior leaders will meet them personally to win them over so they can promote Modi govt's work, say BJP members.

Influencer Marketing Agency: Top 6 Benefits of Working with One

Agencies specialising in influencer marketing help their clients plan, launch, and execute successful influencer marketing campaigns.

Megha Thakur was no run-of-the-mill pretty face, but an influencer who touched many lives

21-yr-old Indian-Canadian Instagram star and TikTok celebrity Megha Thakur, who died this week, subverted the expectations of a content creator by opening up her mind and heart.

On Camera

India has 30 days to pull off fast reform. Hold crash meeting of Centre & state

In India, we are accustomed to glacial change. We love appointing Committees to ‘look into’ reform. Unfortunately for us, the rest of the world moves fast.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.