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NEW DELHI : India is building a large database of anonymized non-personal data for Indian companies and startups that are using artificial…

India is expecting to court a total investment of at least $25 billion as a result of its incentive scheme meant to boost local manufacturing of chip and display panels, junior IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar told reporters. His comments came hours after the Indian government raised fiscal support for new semiconductor facilities to cover 50 percent of project costs, and said it will remove a ceiling for maximum permitted investment to enable incentives for display manufacturing. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government…

Bollywood actress Nora Fatehi has been embroiled in a controversy involving conman Sukesh Chandrashekar for a while now. It’s alleged that conman Sukesh Chandrashekar gifted Nora Fatehi a BMW 5-Series luxury sedan in lieu of a payment for an event that the Bollywood actress had attended. The event was organized by Sukesh Chandrashekar’s wife Leena Maria Paul, who is also in jail currently. The Delhi Police’s economic offences wing recently interrogated Nora Fatehi over the BMW car gift. Ravindra Yadav, Special…

Social media intermediaries have serious obligations and responsibilities under Indian laws and the failure to observe due diligence could have consequences, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) Rajeev Chandrasekhar reportedly said on Wednesday. He made the remarks in the context of vitriolic online abuses faced by Indian cricketer Arshdeep Singh in the aftermath of India's five-wicket loss to Pakistan in the Asia Cup 2022.According to a report by ANI, MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that…

Welcome back to Found, where we tell you the stories behind the startups. Super Troopers premiered at Sundance to a receptive, giggling crowd but if you judged it based on its Rotten Tomato score and reviews, you’d think it flopped. Writer, director, comedian, and recent founder Jay Chandrasekhar never felt right about the critiques from random strangers online. So he set about creating  Vouch Vault, an app in which friends can recommend media, restaurants, and products to each other and users…

The government has issued 105 directions to social media platforms under the new IT rules that came into effect in February last year, Parliament was informed. According to information shared by minister of state for electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, the directions were issued by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting under the new rules. The data shared by the minister shows that 94 directions to block content were issued to YouTube between December 2021 and April 2022,…

Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Friday said law enforcement agencies are investigating to find the reason about a "media report that a child has killed his mother based on PUBG that he has been playing". In a written replies to the Rajya Sabha, he also said there are reports and grievances of banned apps appearing in new avatars using similar-sounding names have been forwarded to the home ministry for examination.The Minister of State for Electronics and IT also told the Rajya Sabha that gaming app PUBG was banned…

The government does not intend to make social media users' verification mandatory in view of the privacy issue, Minister of State for Electronic and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar told Lok Sabha on Wednesday. To ensure that internet is open, safe, trusted and accountable to all users, the government notified the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules in February last year, he said during the Question Hour."And we will continue to expand the scope of those kinds of rule to ensure that…

The Indian government on Tuesday said that all Internet intermediaries and social media platforms have to comply with the law of the land, after Twitter moved the Karnataka High Court against its order to take down some content on its platform.Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said in a tweet that all foreign intermediaries and platforms have a right to approach the court and judicial review in India."But equally, all intermediary/platforms operating here have an unambiguous obligation to…

Digital India is catalysing India's 'Techade' and startups and unicorns are the new drivers of the digital economy, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Tuesday.The 'Digital India' initiatives have brought in a seismic transformation in the economic landscape of the country, by creating more opportunities and putting the youth in the driver's seat of the digital economy," he said at the 'StartUps Conference' here.Minister of Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw and several founders and…