New Delhi: In the wake of panic among people from North East in various parts of the country last month, the government was planning to block micro-blogging site Twitter in eight states as the content on it was thought to be one of the main reasons for triggering exodus.
The Department of Electronics and IT wanted to block Twitter and asked experts how and whether it could be done, sources said.
The states identified for banning Twitter included Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.
The DEIT plan followed an advise by the Home Ministry which felt that content and photographs on Twitter contributed to the panic and exodus, the sources said....
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04:52 PM, Sep 09, 2012
Itanagar: Maharashtra government will make available chartered aircraft to take students of Northeast back to educational institutions in Pune or Mumbai from Guwahati. Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan told a goodwill team from Arunachal Pradesh, led by MP Takan Sanjoy, on Tuesday that concessional chartered flights would be offered to students willing to go back. In a statement, Sanjoy quoted Chavan as saying, "If state governments send written requisitions, officials...
06:39 PM, Aug 22, 2012
New Delhi: Twitter has promised to cooperate with the government after the Prime Minister's Office complained to it about objectionable content on six accounts resembling the PMO's official account. As the government blocked the six accounts after Twitter took no action, the social networking portal has communicated to the PMO that it would be locating the "unlawful content". It has told the PMO that it could not take action earlier...
04:58 PM, Aug 22, 2012
An SMS and social media rumour mongering campaign led to the exodus of almost 50,000 residents of Northeast India from their work places to their home towns. ...
11:58 PM, Aug 21, 2012
Bangalore: Some companies in Bangalore are doing their best to keep their employees safe in the IT capital only, even as the news of mass exodus of Northeast Indians dominates the media. But the fear is apparent, despite the effort to ebb the panic. "We were getting 100 phone calls from our parents," said a person from Northeast. "Have lived here (Bangalore) for ten years...Something like this is happening for...
11:46 PM, Aug 21, 2012
Guwahati: The Indians from the Northeast, who had fled cities like Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai, are now returning from their hometown. Sources in the Home Ministry have told CNN-IBN that three special trains have been deployed in Guwahati for Bangalore to meet the rush. This comes almost a week after several Northeast Indians fled Bangalore and other cities following panic created by inflammatory SMSes and MMSes threatening attack against them....
05:33 PM, Aug 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs has asked the Department of Telecom to initiate penal action against social media websites like Twitter as they have refused to take off offensive posts against Indians from the Northeast. According to sources, the Department of Telecom is likely to act against as many as 28 web pages, of which most are on micro blogging website Twitter. Also, a total of 310 pages...
04:41 PM, Aug 21, 2012
Let us all unite to reassure our brothers and sisters from the Northeast that India belongs to them. ...
11:03 PM, Aug 20, 2012
New Delhi: Social networking sites like Facebook and YouTube have informed the government that inflammatory content uploaded on their pages have indicated that they originated from Pakistan. "The initial response from international social networking sites indicates that such content has been hosted from outside the country and to a large extent from a neighbouring country (Pakistan)," Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DEIT) said in a statement. The response of...
10:14 PM, Aug 20, 2012
Guwahati/Bangalore: Reflecting a gradual return to normalcy after the panic exodus, Northeast Indians headed back to Bangalore in special trains from Guwahati. The tension has also eased in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. A spokesman for the Northeast Frontier Railway Nripen Bhattacharya said in Guwahati that three special trains had left for Bangalore on Sunday taking back in a phased manner those who had fled from the capital of Karnataka fearing...
09:59 PM, Aug 20, 2012
New Delhi: A team of seven Joint Secretaries will visit Assam to monitor the rehabilitation situation in the state. Thousands of Northeast Indians had fled Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai to reach Assam after they received SMSes threatening them of retaliatory attacks over Assam violence. After four days of panic-driven exodus of the Northeast Indians, the situation eased on Monday with police and railway officials saying it has stopped in Karnataka and...
06:06 PM, Aug 20, 2012
Guwahati: After traveling for more than 36 hours, thousands of tired and hungry passengers on Saturday reached Guwahati from Bangalore and Hyderabad. But after leaving behind their jobs in hurry, fear has now made way for uncertainty. Purno Pal, the family's only breadwinner, left his job and arrived in Guwahati with a single suitcase. "We want the Assam government to restore peace and restore normalcy, because we can't stay back...
10:34 PM, Aug 18, 2012
