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NEW DELHI: The Centre has ordered Google and Apple to remove three Chinese battery-management apps — BAT-BMS, Lossigy and Epoch-i-ion — from their app stores after reports that they were being misused to remotely disable battery-operated vehicles, including e-rickshaws, surfaced on social media. The action comes six years after India’s first major “digital strike” on…

Meta meets Centre, final reply due in 3 days NEW DELHI: A team from Meta met officials from the IT ministry on Friday after the Centre issued a notice over WhatsApp’s proposed username feature, PTI reported citing sources.The company is required to submit its final response within the three-day deadline set by the government.“Meta team…

Deputy PM Ishaq Dar’s relative among four arrested over alleged gang rape of two foreign women in Lahore Pakistani police have arrested four men, including a relative of deputy prime minister and foreign minister Ishaq Dar, over the alleged gang rape of two foreign women in Lahore.The suspects: Muhammad Raza Dar, Hassan Raza, Sikandar Khan…

Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) has cleared the procurement of the indigenous MP-ATGM missile. (Image credit: DRDO) The Defence Ministry approved several major acquisition proposals worth over Rs 52,000 crore. The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh was attended for the first time by newly-appointed Chief of Defence Staff Gen Raja Subramani,…

Maharashtra’s Uniform Civil Code: Committee to draft legislation in two weeks NEW DELHI: Maharashtra government on Friday announced that it will set up a committee within two weeks to draft the legislation for the Uniform Civil Code. “The committee to draft the legislation for the Uniform Civil Code is in process and will be set…

NEW DELHI: A district consumer commission in Chandigarh has ordered a visa consultant and his former employee to refund Rs 12.35 lakh, with interest, to a 21-year-old woman. The commission found that fake admission documents were used to make her believe she had got a seat in a Canadian college. It held them guilty of…

Activist Lobga Rangzen walks carrying a Tibetan flag near the UN headquarters, before setting himself on fire (Picture credit: Reuters) TOI correspondant from Washington: The death of a Tibetan activist who set himself on fire outside the United Nations headquarters on Thursday has thrust one of the world’s longest-running, and increasingly neglected, human rights issues…

Centre gives statement over notices to WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram NEW DELHI: The government has sought an explanation from WhatsApp over its username feature, with the IT Secretary warning it could facilitate cybercrime by enabling impersonation and identity spoofing.“We have taken up the issue of using usernames because there is a serious possibility of impersonations…

Sukhjinder Randhawa (PTI image) Senior Congress MP Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa’s meeting with Union home minister Amit Shah today has sparked fresh political speculation, coming just a day after the Congress announced a major organisational reshuffle in Punjab ahead of next year’s Assembly elections.The reshuffle retained Amarinder Singh Raja Warring as Punjab Congress chief and Partap…