4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (281+ words) Authorities in Doda district, Jammu and Kashmir, have imposed a new two-month ban on Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). This is the latest in a series of similar orders across the Union Territory since May 2025, issued under a provision that legal…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (406+ words) “We are now bringing into place the Architecture of Maharashtra Digitisation and Exchange of Land Token Asset Act, that is, the DELTA Act,” said Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis at Global Fintech Fest 2026. He also said Maharashtra would soon introduce legislation…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (380+ words) What the 2026 policy does The Delhi Cabinet approved the Delhi Start-Up and Incubation Policy on 16 July, with an outlay of Rs. 400 crore over five years. The initial phase covers 11 state universities and 13 government-aided colleges. It also covers government polytechnics, industrial…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (457+ words) As expected, Reliance Jio and the global telecom industry body GSMA, in their submissions to a TRAI consultation on quality of service, have nudged the regulator towards enabling network slicing by service. The DoT, for its part, appears to be…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (230+ words) What happened? On August 28, CERT-In wrote to cybersecurity researcher Nisarga Adhikary, asking him to stop public disclosures of the vulnerabilities he finds while the “coordination/remediation” of the vulnerabilities is still underway. But Adhikary refused to stop speaking about the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (511+ words) Meta has told the Delhi High Court that it blocked the Facebook page of Srinagar MP Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi after receiving a notice from a law enforcement agency, according to a Bar and Bench report. The page has remained…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (367+ words) Dodo Payments, a Bengaluru-based payments company, told its customers on August 17 that a breach of an internal analytics system did not touch API keys, passwords, or account credentials. However, the threat actor’s website on the dark web, reviewed by MediaNama,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (433+ words) Welcome to our special edition newsletter, dedicated to the important questions we asked authorities and relevant stakeholders through August. Despite receiving either no reply or only a generic response that barely scratched the surface, we believe these questions are crucial…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (150+ words) Datura, known as dhatura, is a plant whose fruits and seeds contain tropane alkaloids that can cause hallucinations, delirium, coma and death. It has religious and limited traditional-medicine uses in India, but there is no safe dose for consumption as…...

3+ week, 8+ hour ago   (232+ words) The Karnataka Government’s KEO AI PC, launched by the Karnataka Government at the Bangalore Tech Summit, sounds like vaporware to me, because it looks like a device that isn’t quite capable of doing AI compute, especially when it comes to…...