Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday pledged stern action against people found guilty of defaming Islam using the internet as right-wing Islamic parties threatened to wage an intensified street campaign against "atheist bloggers". "You (Islamic parties) do not need to go for any movement. As a Muslim, I have the responsibility to take action," Hasina said at a party meeting of her ruling Awami League, this evening. ...
02:30 AM, Apr 01, 2013
Under pressure to quicken its growth, the once-red hot question-and-answer startup Quora.com said it will launch a blogging platform to encourage more input from its users, who share everything from intensely personal experiences to deep technical knowledge on the site. ...
11:13 AM, Jan 24, 2013
Beijing: As part of its anti-pornography drive, Chinese authorities have shut down about 97,000 blog and microblog accounts for spreading pornography and lewd content. According to State Internet Information Office, authorities closed the accounts over the past seven months, Xinhua reported. To curb lewd content from spreading via the Internet and cellphones, authorities banned 164 pornographic publications, the office said. A total of 287 Internet companies were probed and punished...
01:06 PM, Sep 29, 2012
Beijing: As part of its anti-pornography drive, Chinese authorities have shut down about 97,000 blog and microblog accounts for spreading pornography and lewd content. According to State Internet Information Office, authorities closed the accounts over the past seven months, Xinhua reported. To curb lewd content from spreading via the Internet and cellphones, authorities banned 164 pornographic publications, the office said. A total of 287 Internet companies were probed and punished...
11:29 AM, Sep 29, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday ordered for serving summons to US-based social networking site Facebook through e-mail to respond to a suit which seeks action against it for allegedly hosting objectionable contents. Administrative Civil Judge Parveen Singh ordered serving of summons to Facebook through e-mail within three days as the internet giant has made no representation to the court and several summons issued against it have gone unserved....
06:32 PM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: In the face of ongoing pressure from different governments on Google to censor content on the many services that the search engine giant operates, Google is taking a middle path. Google's popular blogging platform Blogger has started to redirect blogs to localised domains, also known as country-code top level domain (ccTLD). This means that if you are accessing a blog hosted on Google's Blogger service, it will redirect...
04:05 PM, Feb 01, 2012
Beijing: China has shut down 206 microblogs for distributing pornographic and vulgar content. The investigations were carried out following tips from people, said the State Internet Information Office (SIIO). All of the accounts were registered at four of China's largest microblogging sites - Sina.com.cn, Sohu.com, 163.com and QQ.com - with 130 accounts set up through Sina, reported Xinhua. The SIIO has urged the country's microblog providers and Internet portals to...
11:18 AM, Dec 10, 2011
Beijing: The local government of Shanghai Monday launched its first official microblog where the public will be informed about new regulations, upcoming cultural activities as well as vegetable prices. The microblog "Shanghai City" was launched on China's popular Twitter-like service Weibo.com, Xinhua reported. Launched by the information office of the Shanghai municipal government, the microblog accumulated more than 30,000 followers in the first five hours since its launch. It will...
11:27 AM, Nov 29, 2011
Washington: The New York Times Co has sued AOL Inc to force its Huffington Post online news website to rename a parenting blog with a similar name to its own. In a lawsuit filed late Friday in the US District Court in Manhattan, the Times said Huffington Post's "Parentlode" blog had caused reader confusion with the newspaper's 3-year-old "Motherlode" blog. Both blogs have been overseen by Lisa Belkin, who worked...
01:00 PM, Nov 08, 2011
Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who will be seen sharing screen with veteran actress Sridevi after 18 years almost in their upcoming film 'English Vinglish', says the actress is "still spontaneous and lovely". "Sridevi still the same... spontaneous and lovely..!!" Bachchan said on micro-blogging site twitter. The two were last paired in the 1992 hit film 'Khuda Gawah'. Earlier, they were seen together in films like 'Inquilaab' and 'Akhree Rasta'. 'English...
07:02 PM, Jul 19, 2011
Beijing: China blocked the word 'Egypt' from micro-blog searches in a sign that the Chinese government is concerned that protests calling for political reform in the country could spill into China's internet space. Searches on Sunday for 'Egypt' on micro-blog functions of Chinese web portals such as Sina.com and Sohu.com - sites comparable to Twitter - showed phrases saying search results could not be found or could not be displayed...
10:40 AM, Jan 31, 2011
New Delhi: The cyberspace was flooded with tweets and blogs for peace within minutes after the long awaited Ayodhya verdict today with Netizens saying it was a "diplomatic" judgment where no one has won and no one has lost. "Peace and calm is the need of hour" -- this was the refrain of tweets in the microblogging site Twitter and blogs, which, said the judgment has tried to "please all"....
10:29 PM, Sep 30, 2010
New Delhi: Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan says Abhishek is more of a friend for him than a son and that he loves spending time with him. "…when I sit with Abhishek and spend time with him, they are the most glorious moments. He is my friend first now, and a son later. This I had decided even when he had not been born. Would I be the father of a...
12:38 PM, Sep 14, 2010
Mumbai: Maharashtra Home Minister R.R. Patil, in an oblique reference to megastar Amitabh Bachchan's remarks that the Mumbai Metro railway would invade his privacy, said it was unfortunate that people were upset by infrastructure projects that would make life easier for the people of the city. "Mumbai traffic is growing, travel conditions are worsening by the day... people spend four-five hours in commuting daily. We have to think of them,"...
09:35 AM, Sep 01, 2010
Mumbai: Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who filed a police complaint against an unknown person who had been sending derogatory and abusive messages on his blog and mobile phone, revealed on Monday that the police is investigating the matter. "The Police has been informed of this grave and insidious act and many of the level of commissioner and equal rank who are personal friends have been wanting to seek more information,...
06:05 PM, Aug 30, 2010
New Delhi: Amitabh Bachchan says an unknown person has been sending derogatory and abusive material on his blog and mobile phone. After enduring it for months, he has filed a police complaint. "There is a serious effort by a member that writes and comments on this blog to use language and expression that is abusive, filthy and utterly disgusting," Big B wrote on his
bigb.bigadda.com. "I have brought this to...
07:43 AM, Aug 30, 2010
Dozens of blogs by some of China's most outspoken users have been abruptly shut down. ...
09:16 PM, Jul 15, 2010
The 67-year-old says he is content with his acting career. ...
02:31 PM, Jan 15, 2010
This week Bollywood remembers the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. ...
01:51 AM, Jul 01, 2009
FTN: Why dream cities turn living nightmares ... 
