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LIVE: India records 3,824 Covid cases, biggest month rise in 12 mnths

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Twitter working on fact-checking programme 'Community Notes' for media

Community notes aims to allow users to add more context to tweets through links and reports

Meta-Owned WhatsApp working on new private newsletter tool, says report

Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new private newsletter feature, which will be a one-to-many tool for broadcasting information.

LIVE: Delhi LG gives nod to convene House, hold mayoral poll on Feb 22

"Recommended MCD mayor elections to be held on 22 Feb," Kejriwal said in a tweet earlier in the day. Stay tuned for latest updates

LIVE updates: 'Centre monitoring situation', says BJP on Adani stock rout

Live news updates: Delhi's Saket court discharges Sharjeel Imam in Jamia Violence case registered in 2019. Violence erupted after a clash between people protesting against Citizenship Amendment Act

The age of verbiage

Without a modicum of self-restraint, the constant stream of hot takes might end up undermining the informed debate that undergirds all open societies

Explained: How PSInSAR satellite technique helped detect Joshimath sinking

A Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a form of radar that is used to create two-dimensional images or three-dimensional reconstructions of objects, such as landscapes

Meta threatens to ban news on its platform in US over journalism Bill

Meta warned to ban news in the US if the government passes a journalism Bill that will require the social network to pay publishers for using their content

TikTok sees significant growth in daily news consumption on its platform

Additionally, women make up a greater portion of regular news consumers on Facebook, while the opposite is true for sites like Twitter and Reddit

Twitter introduces Circle globally, allows users to make smaller groups

People in the circle will see a green badge under Tweets sent to the group. These Tweets cannot be Retweeted.

Study shows heavy news consumption triggers stress, anxiety, poor health

If you have an obsessive urge to constantly check news, you are more likely to suffer from stress, anxiety as well as poor physical health, researchers have warned

Assessing & delivering bad news on economy no longer taboo in FinMin

Change in mindset has been brought on by Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran who has ensured that discussions on the economy are now much more data-driven and without bluster

Taliban decides to ban international media from airing in Afghanistan

The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has decided to ban the broadcasts of international media outlets being telecasted via local media.

Mohit Jain elected as new president of Indian Newspaper Society

He succeeds L Adimoolam of Health & The Antiseptic.

Billionaire Elon Musk feels it's hard to get good sources of objective news

Tech billionaire Elon Musk feels that it is becoming increasingly difficult to find good sources of objective news these days

Google announces first cohort of media startups under GNI initiative

The GNI Startups Lab is a 16-week catalyst programme that aims to help the next generation independent Indian news startups achieve financial and operational sustainability

Half baked petitions based on newspaper reports need to be discouraged: SC

The apex court, however, said it should not be taken to mean that the news agencies are not trusted by the Court, but to emphasize the role that each pillar of democracy occupies in the polity

Multiple triggers for Reliance Industries' stock, say analysts

At $0.5 billion per MW of acquisition enterprise value (EV), if we were to extrapolate to RIL's solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing, it implies $7-10 billion in value creation

Margin pressure may hit paper cos in near-term despite price hike: Analysts

The rally in paper stocks began early September when states eased Covid-19 related restrictions and announced re-opening of schools and offices

Sensex drops 555 pts, Nifty below 17,650 as energy woes hit global markets

Stock market LIVE: All sectoral indices ended in the red with capital goods, IT, metal, pharma, auto, realty and PSU Bank indices falling in the 1-3 per cent range