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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
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Topic: WhatsApp

WhatsApp blocked 47 lakh Indian accounts in March, 16 lakh of them proactively

The instant messaging platform in a statement said it received 4,720 grievances from users in India in March.

SubscriberWrites: SC Registrar’s stance on WhatsApp as invalid mode of service outdated, dogmatic

High Court of Delhi along with district courts routinely allow for service of summons through ‘all modes of service’ , write Ivan and Vivek Mathur.

SC tells WhatsApp to alert users that new privacy policy’s not a must — ‘publicise it twice’

Bench said app must publicise undertaking to govt — that it won't deprive users of service for not agreeing to policy, till new data protection regime comes in — in 5 national papers.

Meta India public policy chief Rajiv Aggarwal, WhatsApp India head Abhijit Bose resign

The company has appointed Shivnath Thukral as its new director for public policy in India, a Meta spokesperson said.

WhatsApp services restored after hours of outage in India, several parts of globe

More than 30,000 people across India said they faced problems in receiving and sending texts via WhatsApp, according to Downdetector.

WhatsApp down for users in India, UK, South Africa and several other parts of the world

Downdetector said more than 11,000 users across India had reported an outage, while the numbers for United Kingdom were at 68,000 and 19,000 for Singapore as of about 0750 GMT.

AskTalos, the AI-enabled CRM, introduces Cloud Calling and WhatsApp bot

The new feature will enable businesses to manage their leads, communicate with them, and increase sales.

Users will now have upto two days to delete a message on Whatsapp

This feature could give WhatsApp a slight advantage over Apple's iMessage instant messaging service, which doesn't have this feature & won't until its new models are released.

BBM — instant messaging app that ruled business & wooed young users before it became not so cool

BBM, or BlackBerry Messenger, represented a transitional period in the world of instant communication and left a significant mark on popular urban culture of the mid-2000s to 2010.

Interoperability affects platforms like WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram. EU can learn from India

Evaluating the costs and benefits of interoperability requires a clear context. Modi govt's UPI push shows what consumer-friendly tech can look like.

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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.