WhatsApp has told the Delhi High Court that the messaging platform will effectively shut down in India if it is forced to break message encryption. The Meta-owned company said that the end-to-end encryption protects user privacy by ensuring only the sender and recipient can access message content. “As a platform, we are saying, if we…
NEW DELHI: National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday arrested a key accused in a case linked to the attack on the Indian High Commission in London last year. Inderpal Singh Gaba, a resident of Hounslow in the UK, has been arrested for carrying out unlawful activities during protests that took place on March 22, 2023,…
NEW DELHI: Royal Challengers Bengaluru batting star Virat Kohli on Thursday added another feather to his illustrious cap as he became the first player in IPL history to score 400 runs in a season for 10 different years. He accomplished the incredible feat during RCB’s IPL 2024 match against Sunrisers Hyderabad. Virat now surpasses his…
NEW DELHI: Polls to elect the new mayor and deputy mayor of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, scheduled for April 26, have been postponed, an official order said on Thursday. The decision comes amidst the non-appointment of a presiding officer.The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) announced the postponement of the mayoral polls following a directive…
ICICI Bank has blocked credit cards of 17,000 new customers after their data was reportedly exposed and reached “wrong users”. The bank said that it is issuing new cards to the customers.An ICICI Bank spokesperson told news agency IANS about 17,000 credit cards that were issued in the past few days “were erroneously mapped in…
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh on Thursday wrote two separate letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Delhi LG VK Saxena, alleging that Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is currently lodged in Tihar jail, is being monitored 24/7 by CCTV cameras controlled by the PMO and LG. In his letter, Singh…
Welcome to today’s roundup of the interesting entertainment news, where we bring you the top stories dominating the entertainment industry. From rumours of Konkona Sen Sharma‘s dating Amol Parashar, Shruti Haasan calling it quits with Santanu Hazarika to Amitabh Bachchan paying a heartfelt tribute to late Lata Mangeshkar with a Marathi poem, here’s taking a…
Sales updates from Europe’s big luxury brands have offered scant reassurance that Chinese demand for high-end fashion is recovering, leaving a cloud over the outlook for the industry. Warning on Tuesday that its first half profit would drop steeply, Kering flagged low demand in Asia, and China in particular, in addition to its struggles to…
NEW DELHI: Iraqi authorities have carried out the execution of at least 11 individuals convicted of “terrorism” this week, as reported by security and health sources on Wednesday. Amnesty International has criticized the process, highlighting what it calls an “alarming lack of transparency.”Under Iraqi law, capital punishment is applicable for terrorism and murder offenses, with…
NEW DELHI: The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) announced on Thursday that Kalpana Soren, the wife of former chief minister Hemant Soren who is currently in jail, will be contesting the bypoll for the Gandey assembly seat. The seat, located in Giridih district, became vacant after JMM MLA Sarfaraz Ahmad resigned.Kalpana, who is a homemaker, holds…
