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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
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Topic: WhatsApp

WhatsApp India allows payments via Google Pay, Paytm within app

The additions help Meta's plan for business messaging to become the 'next major pillar' of the company's sales growth.

WhatsApp head says reports about the platform exploring ads are false

The report said that teams at Meta were discussing whether to show ads in lists of conversations with contacts on the WhatsApp chat screen.

Four-fold jump in WhatsApp Business’s user base in three years, says Mark Zuckerberg

Meta said it would shortly begin testing features which will help small businesses run ads that click to the messaging platform without the need for a Facebook account.

Meta launches private broadcast messaging tool Channels on WhatsApp

The company said users will be able to follow content on their hobbies, sports teams, updates from local officials and others.

Russia fines WhatsApp 3 million roubles for not deleting information about drug Lyrica, says RIA

WhatsApp, however, has previously been fined for its alleged refusal to comply with Russian data law and store Russian users' data on servers in the country.

Most awaited feature on WhatsApp–now you can edit messages

With the feature rolling out globally in the coming weeks, senders will be able to modify their messages within 15 minutes of hitting send.

Govt uses AI to weed out mobile connections based on fake IDs, 37 lakh connections culled so far

Highest number of SIMs were culled in Bengal (over 12 L), followed by Haryana (over 5 L). A person had taken 5,300 connections using same image with different names, says minister.

WhatsApp introduces ‘Chat Lock’ feature to hide private conversations

Washington: Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday announced a new WhatsApp feature called 'Chat Lock' to make users' most intimate conversations even...

Govt to probe WhatsApp’s ‘privacy breach’ but Meta-owned firm blames bug on Android devices

A Twitter user has accused WhatsApp of 'illegally' accessing microphones in smartphones.

Did you get a WhatsApp video call from unknown number? Chat apps fair game as online con takes new form

As scammers get innovative by the day, experts say regulations aren’t the issue but enforcing them is. User awareness is of the essence, they add. 

On Camera

Nuapada byelection may change Odisha’s political landscape. It should not be ignored

The byelection follows the death of MLA Rajendra Dholakia, a Gujarati businessman-turned-politician of the BJD who also served as a minister in the previous government.

Digital push for grassroots banking: 2 new apps to transform urban cooperative banks for 9 cr users

Cooperation Ministry takes a step towards financial inclusion with Sahkar DigiPay and Sahkar DigiLoan. They will enable faster and seamless access to financial services in small towns.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.