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Friday, May 10, 2024
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Topic: Social media

How Hindi author Nilotpal Mrinal started ‘gamcha revolution’ on social media

After Delhi restaurant refused to allow him in with gamcha, author Nilotpal Mrinal took to Facebook to report the discrimination. A social campaign followed and gamcha was trending soon.

Indian Army asking officers to stay away from Facebook a knee-jerk, ineffective diktat

Indian Army must not be contained in cantonments and should embrace information age.

Pakistan has a new & dangerous peep-hole into Indian military. But New Delhi has a plan

In the pre-internet and pre-social media era, intelligence operations of hostile countries required physical contact.

Don’t cheer for Mastodon yet, it can turn out to be another Twitter

The odds are currently against Mastodon’s success, but they improve a teeny-weeny bit with every new user and every new toot.

Army tells personnel to stay away from spiritual ‘babas’ as they could be Pakistani agents

Army says Pakistani intelligence operatives are impersonating spiritual ‘babas’ on social media to get information on troop movement in sensitive areas & other details. 

Govt has ordered blocking of 20 websites in 2019, down 99% from 2010-18 average 

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology revealed the figure in reply to an RTI query filed by a Delhi-based not-for-profit.

Internet behind rise in ‘hate speech’ and anti-national activities, says Modi govt in SC

In a 27-page affidavit submitted Tuesday, electronics and IT ministry told SC it will finalise rules for better regulation of social media by January 2020.

Supreme Court transfers all pending social media-Aadhaar linking cases to itself

The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to submit a report in January on the notification of rules by which social media misuse can be checked.

Modi govt plan to regulate social media mustn’t become excuse for more citizen surveillance

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

Modi govt plans media policy to ensure people get its message right

The draft policy, which awaits clearance by I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar, focuses on ensuring a multimedia approach to the message put out by govt. 

On Camera

What’s Xi Jinping doing in Europe? His goal is more strategic than economic

India should aim to get European investments that are clearly no longer going to China. That is where the dots of its efforts to save Asia from China’s dominance converge at its most basic.

Day after mass sick leave by employees, Air India Express fires crew members, cancels 85 more flights

About 300 employees had called in sick Wednesday, allegedly in protest against mismanagement of airlines. Remaining staff given ultimatum to rejoin work by end of Thursday.

Vice Admiral Sanjay Bhalla takes charge as Chief of Personnel of the Indian Navy

His tenure as Chief of Personnel will be marked by a number of important appointments, both afloat and ashore.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.