WhatsApp has said Lahiri will be based in the US, and people can also contact her via WhatsApp or post at the company's Menlo Park address in California.  The company says nothing on 'tracing' of the origins of incendiary messages.

According to the WhatsApp website, users can reach out to the company's support team directly from the app under 'Settings' tab and in case they wish to escalate the complaint, they can contact the Grievance Officer directly.

Former French president Francois Hollande was quoted as saying that the Indian government proposed Anil Ambani's Reliance Defence as the partner for Dassault Aviation in the Rs 58,000 crore Rafale jet fighter deal.

Alibaba is the first foreign company to openly claim it's ready to accept the data localisation rules, while other prominent giants like Amazon, Microsoft, American Express, Google and Facebook have shown reluctance.

The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) is drafting another letter asking the Facebook-owned platform to design a technology-led solution to trace the origins of incendiary messages.

The saffron party's decision to bring the ordinance on triple talaq seems to be a well thought-out strategy to garner minority votes considering the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in 2019.

President Ramnath Kovind signed warrants of appointment of Justice Gogoi following which a notification announcing his appointment was issued.

The RBI had earlier directed all payment services companies to store data in India by mid-October.

Top officials in the Finance Ministry said that there is \"no scope for a cut in excise duty by the Centre and VAT charged by the states.\"

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Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the Modi government has completely failed in keeping its promises to the people of India. \"The need of the hour is for different parties to set aside their differences and come together,\" he said.

Pichai also said that Google's team in India will be in touch with Prasad's office to follow up on some of the specific topics that were discussed during their meeting.

Govt to fine-tune e-commerce rules; panel formed to look into issueThe government has set up a group of secretaries to review a recently released draft ecommerce policy, which has drawn severe criticism from many stakeholders. The nascent but booming online retail space has largely been without regulations until a task force led by then commerce secretary Rita Teaotia put together the draft policy. The new group will be chaired by the secretary in the department of industrial poli...

Twenty-one Opposition parties led by the Congress are holding a nation-wide 'Bharat Bandh' today to protest against skyrocketing fuel prices. The normal life was thrown out of gear as protestors blocked roads and highways.

Convention stipulates that the senior-most judge in the apex court, which is Justice Gogoi after Justice Misra, should hold the position of the Chief Justice of India.

Earlier in July, the government had formed a high level committee chaired by the Union Home Secretary to deliberate the matter of mob violence and make recommendations.

The instant messaging company will conduct training classes for specific locations in the hope of spreading awareness about fake news.

The issue was discussed by a committee of secretaries, which was constituted following lynching of nearly 40 people in last one year reportedly due to circulation of fake news in popular social media platforms like WhatsApp.

Interestingly, other foreign players like Facebook, Google, etc, already have hired their grievance executives for India. Google has hired a grievance professional for its payments service Google Tez too.

Amazon plans to invest $700 mn in the Future GroupJeff Bezos-led Amazon in India has begun formal negotiations with Kishore Biyani's Future Group to invest around $600-700 million for a 12 to 15 per cent stake in the retail major as reported by the Business Standard. The two entities have signed a term sheet to take the talks further, sources said. This denotes the two sides have officially entered a pact. If the deal materialises it will most likely be a combination of cash and...