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Mar 29, 2024 · Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to prioritise completion of free trade deals with Britain and Oman in the first 100 days of the next government if he wins upcoming elections...
Mar 25, 2024 · Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans to prioritize finalizing free trade agreements with Britain and Oman in the first 100 days of his potential new term, as per government sources. Talks with both nations are at advanced stages, aiming to boost India's integration into global trade. 29 Mar, 2024, 11:32 AM IST.
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U.S. social media giant Twitter locked horns with India on Wednesday saying a government order to remove some accounts was not consistent with Indian law while politicians urged followers to switch to rival local app Koo.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has ordered Twitter to remove more than 1,100 accounts and posts which it says are spreading misinformation about widespread protests by farmers against new agricultural laws.
In a blog post on Wednesday, Twitter said it did not fully comply with some requests as it believed they were not in line with Indian law.
“In keeping with our principles of defending protected speech and freedom of expression, we have not taken any action on accounts that consist of news media entities, journalists, activists, and politicians,” it said.
The move puts the company and its executives at the centre of a political firestorm. The government has threatened legal action which could result in fines or imprisonment for Twitter officials responsible for implementing government directives.
It also comes after Twitter’s top lobbyist in India, Mahima Kaul, resigned while the company scrambles to contain a growing public relations crisis.
Following the government orders, Twitter permanently suspended over 500 accounts it said were engaging in platform manipulation and spam. For many others, it only restricted access within India and their tweets can still be read abroad.
For Twitter, the stakes are high in a country of 1.3 billion where it has millions of users and is ardently used by Modi, his cabinet ministers and other leaders to communicate with the public. Twitter does not publish the number of Indian users.
As the row takes a toll on Twitter, many Indian politicians and users are joining the home-grown Twitter-like social media platform Koo launched last year.
#kooapp was the top Twitter trend in India on Wednesday with nearly 21,000 posts, followed by #BanTwitter.
Twitter declined to comment about some of its users migrating to Koo.
Several people on Twitter, including Trade Minister Piyush Goyal, have posted tweets this week saying “I am now on Koo”. Goyal, who has 9.6 million Twitter followers, has a pinned tweet asking people to connect with him on Indian platform.
Jun 22, 2023 · Silicon Valley can do better at pushing back against India’s increasingly autocratic digital policy, to say nothing of standing up to censorship requests — which Twitter notoriously failed to...
Dec 11, 2021 · Dec 12 (Reuters) - India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personal Twitter handle was "very briefly compromised," the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said in a tweet early on Sunday.
Aug 23, 2023 · UK trade talks with India are reaching their "final but trickier" stages, according to government sources. Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch is visiting India for a meeting of G20 trade ministers...
Nov 14, 2023 · Nov. 14, 2023 12:38 am ET. Share. Resize. A Tesla Inc. electric vehicle supercharger. Photo: Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz/Bloomberg News. Tesla plans to double its component imports from India, the...
