IT Ministry organisations move to microblogging platform Koo, as government mulls action against Twitter
The Ministry of Electronics and IT had served a notice asking Twitter to block around 257 tweets and Twitter accounts that had been tweeting about the farmer protests.
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The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and a dozen of its organisations have moved to a homegrown Twitter-alternative platform called
Koo after the microblogging giant failed to respond to a notice filed by the government last week.
The government is also mulling suspending Twitter in India for some time to put pressure on the social media giant to respond to its directive. It may lodge an FIR soon too, experts and sources inside the government told
In the past few weeks, a number of social networking giants have found themselves in hot water in India, with the likes of WhatsApp accused of sharing private data. As.
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Joint Collector M. Venugopal Reddy said that the Election Commission is launching e-EPIC on the occasion of 11th National Voters Day on Monday for fresh electors enrolled with unique mobile number (mobile no. given with each application) during Special Summary Revision-2021(SSR-2021).
He was speaking at the 11th Voters Day celebrations held at the VMRDA Children’s Theatre here on Monday. The e-EPIC for all other electors, having unique mobile number in E-Roll would be made available from February 1, otherwise they have to do an e-KYC and thereafter download e-EPIC. An OTP-based authentication would be required to download e-EPIC.
The e-version of the voter ID card will be a non-editable digital version of the elector photo identity card which can be saved on mobiles or printed in a PDF format, officials said