'You are a Shudra till you're a Hindu', says DMK leader A Raja, draws BJP's ire
Senior DMK leader and former Union minister A Raja has sparked a controversy after he reportedly said that Shudras, the lowest caste in the varna system, are children of prostitutes and they will remain so as long as they practice Hinduism.
Elon Musk files new notice to end Twitter deal
Washington/UNI: Elon Musk’s legal team has filed another notice to Twitter to terminate his acquisition deal, citing the micro-blogging company's ex-security chief’s allegations as additional reasoning, according to documents disclosed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Tuesday.
New Delhi/IBNS: A parliamentary panel Friday questioned Twitter on a range of issues including the privacy of user data, the possibility of breaches and allegations of irregularities levelled by a former employee named Zatko.
Brief Twitter outage affects 55,000 users globally
Twitter was down briefly on Thursday affecting almost 55,000 users globally, data shared by outage tracking website Downdetector showed.
Twitter approaches court against Centre's orders to take down content
Bengaluru/IBNS: Micro-blogging site Twitter has approached the court, challenging the Centre's orders to take down content amid a heightened face-off with the government.
New Delhi/IBNS: Weather Department's Twitter handle was hacked Saturday evening and efforts were made to restore it, media reports said.
UP CM Yogi Adityanath's office Twitter handle hacked
Lucknow/UNI: Uttar Pradesh government and security agencies went into high alert late last night when the Twitter account of the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) was hacked, officials informed on Saturday.
Haldiram's trends on Twitter after journalist confronts store manager over 'Urdu' writing
New Delhi/IBNS: The name of multinational restaurant company, Haldiram's, started trending on Twitter on Wednesday after a video, where one of its store managers was seen confronted by a journalist over a writing on a snack packet in "Urdu", went viral.
Thousands of Twitter users globally face outage in using app
New Delhi/IBNS: Microblogging site Twitter Inc's website and apps were reported down across the world on Friday.
Mamata Banerjee blocks Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Twitter
Kolkata/IBNS: In a fresh State-Raj Bhavan conflict, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said she has blocked Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on micro-blogging site Twitter over the latter's repeated attacks on the government.
New Delhi/UNI: The Delhi Police on Friday registered a case against some Twitter account holders for allegedly sharing and propagating a fake video of late CDS General Bipin Rawat, police said.
PM Modi's Twitter account 'briefly compromised' following crypto scam link tweet
New Delhi/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personal Twitter account was "briefly compromised", his office posted on the micro-blogging site early on Sunday morning.
'Won't cremate bodies': Families of two farmers run over in UP's Lakhimpur Kheri
Lakhimpur Kheri/IBNS: The families of two of the farmers who were allegedly mowed down by the son of a Union minister at Tikunia in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri, have refused to cremate the bodies until they receive a copy of the post mortem and the FIR in the case.
Lakhimpur incident: Congress releases video on Twitter showing jeep mowing down farmers
New Delhi/IBNS: The Congress has released a video on Twitter showing a jeep was allegedly mowing down a group of protesting farmers in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri, where eight people died in a violence, media reports said.
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's Twitter account restored
New Delhi/UNI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's Twitter account was restored by the social media platform on Friday, a week after it was locked.