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| Aug 2, 2026 | Delhi HC Weighs Court-Mandated Age Verification for India’s 350 Million Social Media Users | By Joshua Mitchell
Published: Aug 02 2026, 3:53 PM EDT
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| Jul 29, 2026 | India Supreme Court Demands Criminal Law for Digital Arrest, Deepfake Fraud | By Clark Johnson
Published: Jul 29 2026, 7:22 AM EDT
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| Jul 24, 2026 | India Geo-Blocks Student Protest Coverage for 20 Million Followers With No Order, No Law Named | By Joshua Mitchell
Published: Jul 24 2026, 6:43 AM EDT
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| Jun 20, 2026 | India’s Telegram Ban Upheld by Court, Putting 150 Million Users and Every Encrypted App at Risk | By Adrian Parham
Published: Jun 20 2026, 07:07 AM EDT
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| Nov 19, 2024 | Shivangi Desai Crowned Miss Charm India 2024, Set to Represent India on the Global Stage | Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Shivangi Desai, a 22-year-old law student in her final year at the prestigious Indian Law School (ILS) Pune, has achieved the remarkable milestone of winning the national title of Miss Charm India 2024. This esteeme... |
| May 28, 2024 | Karnataka HC maintains 5% service charge cap on app-based autos | The Karnataka High Court on Monday dismissed the writ petitions filed by ride hailing companies against capping the service charge levied at 5% in the state.
The petitions challenged the state government’s notification fixing the service ch... |
| Jan 11, 2024 | How Telegram became the top resource for pirated content in Nigeria | Esther’s eyes were glued to the colossal screen, with her popcorn bucket half-empty in one hand and a bottle of Coca-Cola in the other. The auditorium buzzed with collective gasps and laughter. The film, A Tribe Called Judah was one of Noll... |
| Jan 9, 2024 | Pirate Sites Worldwide Face Emerging, Perpetual Threat of Domain Seizures | Over the past several years and especially over the past several months, major rightsholders’ interest in India appears to have risen.
India’s piracy rates provide the most obvious explanation but seemingly sudden and escalating use of Indi... |
| Nov 30, 2022 | Algo Legal, Its Founder Sandeep Kapoor Withdraw INR 1 Cr Defamation Suit Against Sequoia | Kapoor filed a defamation suit against Sequoia Capital and several media outlets earlier this year, saying baseless allegations by them hurt the business and reputation of Algo Legal
Instead of being dragged through endless legal proceeding... |
| Nov 26, 2022 | Delhi HC Rejects Amazon’s Plea Against Curtailment Of Broadcast Rights | Justice Yashwant Varma, who was hearing Amazon's contention, dismissed the plea
Challenging the order of the TDSAT, Amazon had alleged that broadcasting of the cricket match by private players through Prasar Bharti effectively diluted its e... |
| Sep 15, 2022 | Indian Agents Had Unsupervised Access To Twitter Systems, User Data: Whistleblower | The Indian agent(s) was placed to gauge whether the tech giant was willing to concede to the ruling party's demands for censorship: Zatko
Indian government forced Twitter to hire a specific individual(s) who were government agents, who woul... |
| Aug 30, 2022 | Truecaller’s iOS update aims to improve call and spam detection | Truecaller has been dabbling in building out a family of apps to dig deeper into the different ways that people now communicate, but it’s also adding better performance to its flagship app, too. Today, the company released a major update to... |
| Jun 3, 2022 | Passengers not wearing masks in planes and airports will soon be fined and put on no-fly list | The Delhi High Court has directed the DGCA to punish passengers not wearing masks or flouting COVID guidelines.
The punishments include fines and placing passengers on the no-fly list.
The court was hearing a suo moto petition filed by Just... |
| May 9, 2022 | Indian Court Orders US Domain Registrars to Preemptively Block Pirate Sites | Website blocking and cour-ordered domain suspensions are common anti-piracy measures in several parts of the world.
India has been at the forefront of this movement, with rightsholders requesting blockades of thousands of websites over the ... |
| Apr 18, 2022 | GainBitcoin Scam: Amit Bhardwaj’s Brother To Appear Before ED In INR 20,000 Cr Crypto Scam | The Supreme Court on Monday ( April 18, 2022) asked Ajay Bhardwaj, the key accused in the infamous GainBitcoin case, to reappear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and submit the password and other wallet details to the ED.
Ajay Bhardw... |
| Apr 4, 2022 | Indian Railways Ordered To Pay Rs 1 Lakh To This Passenger: His Berth Was Sold To Someone Else! | Indian Railways Ordered To Pay Rs 1 Lakh To This Passenger: His Berth Was Sold To Someone Else!
There was an incident wherein a passenger was denied a berth despite making a reservation one month before to the journey. Offended by this, the... |
| Mar 28, 2022 | SC Asks GainBitcoin Scam Accused Ajay Bhardwaj To Disclose Wallet Details | The Supreme Court of India has now asked the GainBitcoin scam accused Ajay Bhardwaj, brother of the late Amit Bhardwaj, to share the username and password of his cryptocurrency wallets with the Enforcement Directorate, Mumbai.
A bench compr... |
| Jan 30, 2022 | Criminal Cases Against Wipro Founder Azim Premji: What Are The Allegations? | Criminal Cases Against Wipro Founder Azim Premji: What Are The Allegations?
India’s biggest philanthropist billionaire, Azim Premji has been charged with two separate criminal cases.
These cases, as per the directions of a Bengaluru court, ... |
| Dec 27, 2021 | Madras High Court reaffirms that WhatsApp group admin isn’t liable for a member’s posts | Madras High Court reiterated that WhatsApp group admin are not liable for member’s posts.
Justice GR Swaminathan referred to a similar judgement given by the Bombay High Court before giving his orders.
The Court asked the respondent to bear... |
| Oct 5, 2021 | How To Protect Against Emerging Forms Of Payment Fraud | Founder of FixNix.co. |
| Sep 14, 2021 | Pegasus Snooping Row: Govt Won’t File Detailed Affidavit; SC Reserves Interim Order | The Pegasus snooping controversy has taken an interesting turn with the government today [September 13] saying that the Centre won’t file a detailed affidavit for an independent probe into the Pegasus spyware row, citing “national security ... |
| Sep 6, 2021 | Sci-Hub Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary By Uploading 2.3m New Articles | There are thousands of pirate sites online today and many more have come and gone over the years. In their own way, most are loved by their specific audiences but few reach achieve truly iconic status.
Due to its colorful history and origin... |
| Jul 23, 2021 | Karnataka High Court dismisses Amazon, Flipkart plea against CCI probe | A single-judge bench had also dismissed the petition on June 11.
Amazon and Flipkart have been accused of carrying out business malpractices.
CCI says that if there is nothing to hide, then Amazon and Flipkart should not pitch to stop the p... |
| May 17, 2021 | As WhatsApp’s Privacy Policy Kicks In, Indian Govt Reiterates Legal Violation | Instant messaging app WhatsApp informed the Delhi high court today (May 17) that its latest privacy policy was not deferred and came into effect last week on May 15. However the government of India has once again reiterated that the policy ... |
| May 5, 2021 | Oxygen crisis in Delhi: India’s top court stays contempt proceeding against Centre, but asks for solutions | India’s Supreme Court stayed the contempt proceedings initiated by Delhi High Court against the central government over the oxygen crisis in the national capital.
The Supreme Court bench led by Justices DY Chandrachud and MR Shah, however, ... |
| May 4, 2021 | ‘Enough is enough’ – Delhi High Court issues show cause notice to Centre on the oxygen crisis issue in India’s national capital | The Delhi High Court has issued a show cause notice to the central government over the oxygen crisis in the national capital of India.
The plea in the court was that the national capital territory of Delhi was not receiving the oxygen suppl... |
| Apr 27, 2021 | I couldn’t find a hospital bed for my COVID-struck father in India. Days of frantic searching showed me how overwhelmed our health system is. | New Delhi – April 26: A healthcare worker in PPE attends to a patient in an isolation ward – a banquet hall temporarily converted for coronavirus patients. Naveen Sharma/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Nilanjana Bhowmick’s father’s... |
| Apr 22, 2021 | Delhi HC Rejects WhatsApp, Facebook Plea To Stop CCI Antitrust Probe | The Delhi High Court on Thursday (April 22) rejected a plea by WhatsApp and Facebook to overturn an order by the Competition Commission of India to investigate allegations of abuse of dominance against the messaging platform’s new privacy p... |
| Mar 15, 2021 | Transgender person can join the National Cadet Corps, rules Kerala High Court | The Kerala High Court today broke a barrier as it ruled that a transgender person can join the National Cadet Corps.
Hina Haneefa, a 22-year old transwoman, had moved the Kerala High Court for her right to be a part of the NCC.
The court sa... |
| Feb 2, 2021 | Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp Spreading Hate In India? Supreme Court Issues Notice To Govt | Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp Spreading Hate In India? Supreme Court Issues Notice To Govt
On Monday, the Supreme Court issued a notice to the Centre on a PIL seeking rules to regulate social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter respo... |
| Jan 19, 2021 | CCI May Probe WhatsApp After Delhi HC Brushes Off Privacy Concerns | The Delhi High Court played down concerns around privacy on WhatsApp in response to a petition, saying that WhatsApp is a private app and if users do not accept the terms, they need not use the app.
Responding to the plea filed by Advocate ... |
| Jan 19, 2021 | Amazon, Flipkart Cry Foul Over CCI Probe Into FDI Violation On The Basis Of Hunches | At the Karnataka High Court, ecommerce giants Amazon and Flipkart on Monday (January 18), once again denied all the allegations against them of having been involved in anti-competitive practices — like deep discounting, predatory pricing, e... |
| Jan 12, 2021 | Twitter Bans Sci-Hub's Account Because Of 'Counterfeit Goods' Policy, As Indian Copyright Case Heats Up | A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt wrote about an important copyright case in India, where a group of academic publishers is seeking a dynamic injunction to block access to the "shadow libraries" Sci-Hub and Libgen. The person behind... |
| Jan 12, 2021 | Twitter Bans Sci-Hub's Account Because Of 'Counterfeit Goods' Policy, As Indian Copyright Case Heats Up | A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt wrote about an important copyright case in India, where a group of academic publishers is seeking a dynamic injunction to block access to the “shadow libraries” Sci-Hub and Libgen. The person behind Sci-Hub, ... |
| Jan 7, 2021 | Judge: Sci-Hub Blocking Case “Important” For Science, Community Representations Will Be Heard | On December 21, 2020, academic publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society filed a lawsuit demanding that Indian ISPs block access to Sci-Hub and Libgen.
The companies accuse the platforms of engaging in large-scale copyright ... |
| Jan 4, 2021 | Google Pay’s Legal Troubles Pile Up With New Petition For Unauthorised Aadhaar Access | Digital payments giant Google Pay has found itself in legal trouble in India once again, this time over alleged unauthorised access, usage and storage of Aadhaar data of its users.
According to a petition filed by a financial economist Abhi... |
| Dec 18, 2020 | India's Top Court is Cracking Down on Critical Jokes, Cartoons and Tweets | In an illustration drawn by Indian cartoonist Rachita Taneja, who is mostly known as ‘Sanitary Panels’ on her social media channels, she drew two stick figures talking to each other. This is how the conversation went:
Person 1: “What’s it l... |
| Dec 16, 2020 | Uber and Ola are not acting as a cartel, says India’s Supreme Court | The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favour of Uber and Ola in a case regarding their fare practices.
Advocate Samir Agarwal had challenged the ride-hailing apps, saying their algorithm gives no freedom to drivers or riders in deciding the... |
| Nov 2, 2020 | How the Stalking and Murder of a Woman is Fanning Religious Tensions in India | Adal Singh Rawat remembers the man who shot dead his niece last week, on October 26. Rawat, a resident of Ballabgarh, a small town in the northern Indian state of Haryana, knew of Tauseef as the young man who routinely stalked the daughter ... |
| Sep 28, 2020 | In Photos: Angry Farmers Protest Indian Gov’t’s ‘Historic’ Laws | Three controversial laws have triggered a wave of angry protests in some Indian states over the last week. Distressed farmers have been occupying the streets, railway tracks and highways opposing the latest farm bills that aim to reform the... |
| Sep 23, 2020 | Inside India's Investigation Into Facebook’s Hate Speech Allegations | Last month, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) carried a story detailing how Facebook overlooked hate speech posted by accounts linked with members of Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Since then, a parliamentary committee grilled a ... |
| Sep 9, 2020 | Airline ticket refund: Supreme Court seeks clarification from the Centre and grants ten days to airlines to submit their reply | The Supreme Court gives ten days to airlines and other stakeholders to respond to the Centre’s affidavit.
The Centre's affidavit states that tickets booked during the lockdown will be fully refunded.
Next hearing on the airline ticket refun... |
| Sep 1, 2020 | Aspiring Indian Doctors and Engineers Protest Entrance Exams By Spamming PM Modi's YouTube Video | Over the last few days, Priyanka, a 20-year-old aspiring doctor from the east Indian state of Odisha, has experienced panic attacks. She is one of 1.5 million candidates registered for the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET), a qualif... |
| Aug 26, 2020 | Loan moratorium still ends on Aug 31 while Supreme Court gives the government another week to clarify if accrued interest should be waived | Whether or not interest from the moratorium period will be waived off is yet to be decided by the Supreme Court.
The apex court has given the Indian government another week to clarify its stance on the issue.
As things stand, the collective... |
| Mar 4, 2020 | SC allows trade in cryptocurrency, revokes RBI ban | The Supreme Court has lifted a ban on cryptocurrency trading, revoking the Reserve Bank of India’s two-year-old diktat that had barred its trade in the country.
In April 2018, RBI had issued a circular banning banking and financial services... |
| Jan 15, 2020 | NPR document not mandatory for KYC process, clarifies RBI | After creating a flutter by announcing a National Population Register (NPR) document as proof for its Know Your Customer (KYC) procedure, the Reserve Bank of India has clarified that NPR letter is not mandatory for the KYC process.
“As per ... |
| Jan 10, 2020 | India lost over $1.3 Bn in 2019 to internet shutdowns | With 4,196 hours of internet shutdowns, India is the third worst-hit and economically affected country after Iraq and Sudan, a study has revealed.
The internet blackouts impacting 8.4 million internet users in India cost about $1329.8 milli... |
| Jan 7, 2020 | Delhi HC seeks MeitY, Twitter response on plea to frame guidelines for censorship on social media | The Delhi High Court has issued notice to the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) and micro-blogging site Twitter seeking response on a plea by a senior advocate Sanjay Hegde challenging the suspension of his Twitte... |
| Aug 28, 2019 | Amazon moves SC challenging HC order barring sales of D2C brands | A month after Delhi High Court restrained e-commerce platforms from selling products of direct selling entities without their consent, Amazon Seller Services has moved to the Supreme Court opposing the judgement.
Amazon contest the ruling a... |
| Jul 16, 2019 | We Asked Indian Tattoo Artists About the Weirdest Requests They’ve Ever Received | While some of us might be too commitment-phobic to get into something as permanent as a tattoo, for some, they go beyond being just skin-deep. These permanent fixtures can either convey a meaningful moment or totally random requests, possib... |
| Jul 3, 2019 | Delhi HC issues notice to PayPal; may ask to stop operations in India | Delhi High Court has issued a notice to PayPal over a petition filed by Abhijit Mishra alleging that the global payments major has violated Section 4(1) of the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007.
The petitioner also asked the court to... |
| Jun 20, 2019 | Bombay HC dismisses PIL against Dream11 over gambling and tax evasion | The fantasy sports platform Dream11 ad slogan ‘Khelo Dimag Se’ does not only serve as an advertisement purpose but it seems to have a bearing element for what the company is all about.
And this was reflected in recent Bombay High Court ruli... |
| Jun 5, 2019 | Asus é barrada de usar marcas Zenfone e ZenBook na Índia | A Asus foi processada por uma empresa na Índia que detém a marca registrada “Zen” para dispositivos móveis: uma liminar da Justiça proíbe a fabricante de usar as marcas “Zen” e “Zenfone” no país, impactando sua linha de celulares Android e ... |
| Apr 16, 2019 | Google pulls TikTok from Play Store in India following government order | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Google has pulled popular video app TikTok from t... |
| Apr 8, 2019 | Supreme Court declines urgent hearing on plea by TikTok seeking ban review | A plea for an urgent hearing over the ban of short video application TikTok has been refused by the Supreme Court. Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi said he will look into it when sought urgent listing of the case by the lawyer.
TikTok-ow... |
| Apr 3, 2019 | Madras High Court bans TikTok in Tamil Nadu with immediate effect | With the penetration of short video applications such as TikTok, Bigo Live, Vigo and Like, teenagers have become vulnerable to sexual abuse. One can easily gauge that these apps are amassing hundreds of millions of downloads on the back of ... |
| Jul 20, 2018 | India's Supreme Court Pushes Crypto Banking Ban Hearing to September | A Supreme Court decision on the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) efforts to bar cryptocurrency firms from receiving banking services will have to wait – for now.
A final hearing on the ban's merits has been deferred to September 11, local news... |
| Apr 28, 2018 | NCLAT asks Google to pay Rs 13.6 Cr by May 25, yet to come up with final verdict | Finally, Google has received some relief in ongoing hearing in NCLAT against its involvement in manipulating search for gaining unfair advantages. Hearing the appeal filed by the search giant, National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT)... |
| Rapido To Raise INR 391 Cr Series B Amid Regulatory Hurdles | Image Credit: Hindu BusinessLine
Bengaluru-headquartered bike taxi startup Rapido is raising INR 391 Cr ($54.54 Mn) in a Series B funding round.
According to the Ministry of Corporate Affairs filings accessed by Inc42, the company’s board p... |
| Lift Ban On Bike Taxis, Demand Riders In Tamil Nadu | Earlier this week, a group of 40 bike taxi riders have reportedly showed up at a grievance redressal day meeting organised by the Coimbatore district collectorate office. The bike taxi riders have asked the government to lift the stay of bi... |
| Block Offensive Social Media Content Globally, Not Just In India: Delhi HC | In a hearing on Thursday (October 24), the Delhi High Court emphasised that social media platforms are bound to globally disable and block any offending content which has been ordered for removal.
The social media platforms under scanner in... |
| 11 Indian Startup News Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | We bring to you the latest edition of News Roundup: Indian Startup Stories Of The Week!
In one of the most important development for the Indian startup ecosystem this week, India jumped 14 spots in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business 20... |
| Cryptocurrency This Week: Amit Bhardwaj’s Bitcoin Fraud Investigation, Delhi High Court’s Notice To RBI And More | Another milestone for Bitcoin. With 17 millionth Bitcoin mined this week, Bitcoin which currently is trading at $9.2K has remained unaffected by India’s RBI move to curb the banking interface between cryptocurrency and fiat currency.
Agains... |
| Asian Tech Roundup: India threatens Wikipedia | Australia
AI is worse than humans at summarising documents, a study by Australia's corporate regulator the Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has found. Source
Australia will introduce AI rules including human intervention and tra... |
| 11 Indian Startup News Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | We bring to you the latest edition of News Roundup: Indian Startup Stories Of The Week!
In the NITI Aayog’s first-ever India Innovation Index, released on Thursday, Karnataka topped the charts among major states in the country. Moreover, wh... |
| Google Pay’s Legal Troubles Pile Up With New Petition For Unauthorised Aadhaar Access | Digital payments giant Google Pay has found itself in legal trouble in India once again, this time over alleged unauthorised access, usage and storage of Aadhaar data of its users.
According to a petition filed by a financial economist Abhi... |
| Exclusive: Rapido Closes Series B Funding Round At $55 Mn Led By WestBridge Capital | Bengaluru-headquartered bike taxi startup Rapido has closed its Series B funding round at INR 390.11 Cr ($54.9 Mn) from a bunch of new and existing investors.
According to the Ministry of Corporate Affairs filings accessed by Inc42, the com... |
| Exclusive: WhatsApp Knocks On Delhi High Court’s Door Again To Block CCI Probe | WhatsApp filed an appeal on Friday (April 30) morning against a Delhi High Court judgement that rejected a plea to overturn an order by the Competition Commission of India to investigate allegations of abuse of dominance against the messagi... |
| Madras High Court Suspends Ban On Online Sale of Medicine | The Madras High Court has suspended the ban on the sale of online medicines after a group of epharmacy companies had filed an appeal on Wednesday requesting for a stay on the court’s order asking online pharmacies to shut down operations by... |
| From Warning To Now Action, SBI Bars Customers Trading Cryptocurrencies | Following the order by the Reserve Bank of India barring regulated financial institutions from dealing in cryptocurrencies, the biggest public sector bank, SBI (State Bank of India), has issued a notification that it has discontinued crypto... |
| Kerala HC Seeks Central Govt’s Opinion On Encrypted Messaging App Telegram Ban | In response to the petition seeking a ban on the encrypted messaging app Telegram, the Kerala High Court (HC) on October 4 directed the central government to file their response on the same.
The petition was filed by a law student from Beng... |
| 11 Indian Startup News Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | We bring to you the latest edition of News Roundup: Indian Startup Stories Of The Week!
This week, addressing the gathering at the foundation stone for a new building to house the Registrar General of India (RGI) in New Delhi, union home mi... |
| Encryption Does Not Allow Tracking Of Messages, WhatsApp Reiterates In Madras HC | In the latest chapter in its tussle with the Indian government over tracing the origin of messages, WhatsApp has informed the Madras High Court that its end-to-end encryption software has been designed in a way that makes it impossible for ... |
| After Madras HC Ban, Mother Of Three Drags TikTok To Bombay HC | A mother of three kids, on Monday (November 18), moved the Bombay High Court (HC) seeking a ban on the popular mobile video-streaming app TikTok. The petitioner, identified as Heena Darvesh, demanded that the government provide a detailed r... |
| SC Pushes Centre To Frame Guidelines On Social Media Abuse | In a Supreme Court of India (SC) hearing on Tuesday (September 24), the court asked the central government to submit a timeframe for formulating the guidelines to curb social media misuse within three weeks.
The bench of justices Deepak Gup... |
| News Roundup: Reliance Completes INR 47K Cr Fundraise For Retail, Inches Closer To Acquiring Future Retail & More | This week, Reliance Industries announced the completion of its fundraise worth INR 47,265 Cr for Reliance Retail Ventures Limited (RRVL).
Reliance Retail is India’s largest retail chain, both by revenue and the total number of stores. It op... |
| Reliance-Future Deal: Delhi HC Allows Amazon India To Write To SEBI, Regulators | The Delhi High Court, on Monday (December 21), refused to restrain Amazon India from writing to authorities to state its case in the proposed deal for the sale of Future Group’s retail, wholesale, logistics and warehousing businesses to Rel... |
| Cryptocurrency This Week: Supreme Court Asks Govt To Regulate Bitcoin | Swinging up and down, and up again. Bitcoin, currently trading at $8K, has recovered bullishly from a scheduled hard-fork melodrama that did not happen. However, if you are looking for a melodrama, Bitcoin will never disappoint. After SegWi... |
| Delhi HC Dismisses Future Group’s Petition To Terminate Amazon’s Arbitration Case | The Delhi High Court on Tuesday (January 4, 2022) dismissed Future Group’s petitions that sought to terminate Amazon’s application against the Future-Reliance deal. The HC dismissed the plea considering the matter is set to be heard between... |
| After WhatsApp, Is Facebook Also Enabling A Payments Feature? | Even as WhatsApp’s payment service WhatsApp Pay is facing delays, its parent company, Facebook, is reportedly rolling out a payments feature through its Messenger app. Facebook plans to offer mobile recharges and top-ups as an extension of ... |
| Bitcoins Can’t Be Ignored; Blockchain Needs To Encouraged: SEBI | Image Credits
Taking a dramatically different stance from the RBI and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, SEBI Chairman Ajay Tyagi has said that Bitcoins, and cryptocurrencies in general, cannot be ignored.
Observing that virtual currencies have... |
| Delhi HC Dismisses Google’s Plea Against CCI; Allows Liberty To Approach Court In Case Of Breach | As the tussle between Google and the Competition Commission of India (CCI) heats up, the anti-trust regulator has once again denied leaking confidential reports to the Delhi High Court (HC), where the petition was being heard, as alleged by... |
| Delhi HC Reserves Order On Future Retail’s Suit Against Amazon | The Delhi High Court has reserved its order on Future Retail’s suit related to its deal with Reliance Retail. Last month, the deal between Reliance and Future was stalled by the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), after Amazo... |
| Refrain From Boycotting OYO: Delhi High Court Orders Hoteliers’ Associations | The Delhi High Court has issued an ex-parte interim injunction order which restrains hoteliers’ associations from boycotting Gurugram-based hospitality unicorn OYO.
The order issued by a vacation bench of Justice Jayant Nath noted that OYO ... |
| After Govt Gives 7 Days To Roll Back Privacy Policy; WhatsApp Claims Majority Users Have Already Accepted It | Facebook owned Instant messaging giant, WhatsApp has claimed that a majority of its users have already accepted the company’s new privacy policy in a statement issued on 19th May. The statement was issued to the media after the Indian gover... |
| Karnataka HC Quashes UP Police’s Notice Sent to Twitter India MD Manish Maheshwari | In a big relief to Twitter India and its chief Manish Maheshwari, Karnataka High Court bench has quashed the notice sent to Maheshwari by the Ghaziabad police in relation to a communal video that had gone viral.
The UP police had issued a n... |
| Supreme Court To Introduce E-Filing Software Soon To Limit Visits | In an attempt to do away with unnecessary court visits, the Supreme Court (SC) of India has developed an e-filing software that is said to be in advanced stages of trial.
Head of the SC’s E-Committee Justice DY Chandrachud, on April 13, ann... |
| Pegasus Snooping Row: Govt Won’t File Detailed Affidavit; SC Reserves Interim Order | The Pegasus snooping controversy has taken an interesting turn with the government today [September 13] saying that the Centre won’t file a detailed affidavit for an independent probe into the Pegasus spyware row, citing “national security ... |
| Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Yet Another PIL On Linking Aadhaar With Social Media | The Supreme Court (SC) of India on Monday (October 14) refused to entertain the public interest litigation (PIL) which sought linkage of Aadhaar with social media accounts.
A Bar and Bench report said that the PIL was filed by Advocate Ashw... |
| Universal Wins Indian Court Order Against IMDb-Themed Pirate Streaming Sites | For more than two decades, pirates have used the Internet Movie Database, better known as IMDb, in ways its operators never intended.
Back in 2005, for example, there was already a popular Greasemonkey browser script called “IMDb torrent li... |
| 11 Indian Startup News Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week [3-8 June] | We bring to you the latest edition of News Roundup: Indian Startup Stories Of The Week!
There’s a lot that happened this week in the Indian startup ecosystem. Interestingly, a recent analysis revealed that almost all the twenty-five cabinet... |
| SC’s ‘Interest On Interest’ Waiver Compounds Moratorium Blues For Digital Lenders | In a ruling that could complicate the financial performance of India’s digital lenders and credit ecosystem, the Supreme Court today (March 23, 2021), called for a waiver of the interest on interest for loans under the Reserve Bank of India... |
| OYO Faces Legal Dispute With Rival Zostel Before IPO | IPO-bound hospitality unicorn OYO is likely to file its draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) this week (which may be pushed to next week) with an estimated capital raise of $1 Bn. As OYO gears up for its IPO, it is reportedly facing a legal ... |
| No Plan To Pursue Legal Action, Working With Govt, Says TikTok India | TikTok India, on Thursday, refuted media reports which said that the company was planning to pursue legal action against the government’s ban on 59 Chinese apps.
In a statement given to Bar & Bench, a TikTok India spokesperson said that... |
| I&B Provides Sigh of Relief For OTTs, Gives Nod For Self-Regulation | The ministry of information and broadcast (I&B), has recently changed its stance on OTT censorship from government-imposed regulations to a self-regulation policy.
The secretary of the ministry of electronics and information technology ... |
| IAMAI Moves Supreme Court Over RBI’s Cryptocurrency Ban | In a fresh petition against the RBI’s order dated April 6, disallowing regulated entities from dealing in virtual currencies or offering services to entities dealing with them, the IAMAI (Internet and Mobile Association of India) has moved ... |
| Bombay HC Stays Order Restraining Unacademy To Use PrepLadder In Plagiarism Row | In a case filed by Sri Lankan startup Medical Joyworks against Indian edtech unicorn Unacademy and its medical test-prep subsidiary, PrepLadder alleging plagiarism, the Bombay City Civil Court had granted “ex-parte injunction” to Medical Jo... |
| Meity Gives WhatsApp 7-Day Deadline To Pull Back New Privacy Policy | India’s ministry of electronics and information technology (Meity) has reportedly directed instant messaging app WhatsApp to roll back its latest privacy policy update, which will share users’ meta data with companies including Facebook. Me... |
| Delhi HC Rejects WhatsApp, Facebook Plea To Stop CCI Antitrust Probe | The Delhi High Court on Thursday (April 22) rejected a plea by WhatsApp and Facebook to overturn an order by the Competition Commission of India to investigate allegations of abuse of dominance against the messaging platform’s new privacy p... |
