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Govt Asks Universities To Track Students’ Social Media Amid CAA Protests

With students taking to the streets to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) has taken upon itself to put a full stop to the situation once and for all by asking the educational institutions to step in. According

Govt To Introduce Fresh Guidelines To Make Social Media More Responsive To Fake News

Amid recent mob lynchings and killings over fake news spread through WhatsApp and Facebook in the various parts of the country, the central government is apparently drafting new guidelines to make the intermediaries — social media platforms — more responsive to blocking fake news. As per reports, the government

Got Old Gadgets You Don’t Use? The Rajasthan Govt. Will Now Buy Your e-Waste!

We all have old gadgets and electronics we refuse to throw away, due to the oddest reasons. An old CRT television, a first-generation smartphone, a desktop computer and anything that is basically outdated. Well, if you live in Rajasthan, you will be happy to know that the

Gujarat floods: Social media comes to the rescue as govt reaches out to locals, coordinates relief work

Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a relief of Rs 500 crore after taking an aerial survey of the flood affected areas of Gujarat on Tuesday, many villages around the Deesa city of Banaskantha district continue to remain cut off because the bridges and roads en route have

Govt to infuse Rs 10,000 cr in BharatNet for for rural broadband

Strengthen the government’s Digital India push, the government on Wednesday said it will pump Rs 10,000 crore in 2017-18 in its BharatNet project to lay optical fibre cables (OFC). “Under the BharatNet Project, OFC has been laid in 1,55,000 km. I have stepped up the allocation for