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Tinder Scam: When a civil service aspirant right-swiped on a dating app, he had no idea he was walking into a sinister plot carefully planned to scam men looking for love.

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Monday issued two advisories advising private television channels as well as digital news publishers and OTT platforms to refrain from showing advertisements of offshore online betting sites and surrogate advertisements of these sites. The advisories were supplemented with evidence which contained dir...

A new law for the registration of media will, for the first time in India, include digital media, which has never been part of any government regulation.

Russian government is facing unprecedented cyberattacks and technical efforts are being made to filter foreign web traffic, the TASS news agency cited the digital ministry as saying on Thursday.

Yahoo has shut down its news websites in India due the new foreign direct investment (FDI) rules that limit foreign ownership of media companies that operate and publish digital content in India.

The government today announced new rules to regulate digital content and establish what it called a "soft touch progressive institutional mechanism with level-playing field" featuring a Code of Ethics and a three-tier grievance redressal framework for news sites and OTT platforms. The rules will empower users of social media, said Union IT Minister...

NDTV has won big in the South Asian Digital Media awards 2020, once again proving that it is the leader in quality journalism and news coverage. Our site ndtv.com has won the silver for Best News Website.

The government has issued an order bringing online news portals and content providers such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hotstar under the Information and Broadcasting ministry. The notification, signed by President Ram Nath Kovind, was issued on Monday. The government regulations also apply to news on social media platforms such as Facebook, ...

Groupe Renault has been developing its own digital platform since 2016 to connect and aggregate industrial data from 22 group sites worldwide and more than 2,500 machines.

Skoda India is all set to launch the much-awaited Karoq SUV in India on May 26. The two-row SUV is slated to make its India debut alongside the Skoda Rapid 1.0 and the Superb facelift. The Czech car manufacturer will be introducing all the three models in India through an all-digital launch event because of the lockdown situation caused by the coro...

With a surge in mobile internet consumption amid a countrywide lockdown, all companies in the digital industry have decided to "temporarily default High Definition (HD) and ultra-HD streaming to Standard Definition (SD) content" or offer only SD content at bitrates no higher than 480p on cellular networks until April 14, according to public broadca...

Thousands of websites, including ones run by US and UK government agencies, were infected for several hours on Sunday with code that causes web browsers to secretly mine digital currencies, technology news site The Register reported.

The deal includes acquisition of Tikona's Broadband Wireless Access spectrum and 350 sites in five telecom circles, Airtel said.

Adobe Digital Insights noted mobiles had a significant impact on the record e-commerce sales on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday.

A pornographic website -- reportedly one of the world's top five -- was hacked and passwords of 72,000 users and credit card details of 40,000 others were stolen, a media report said on Wednesday. The website, "Digital Playground", was hacked by a group that calls itself "The Consortium", the Daily Mail reported.

Tinder Scam: When a civil service aspirant right-swiped on a dating app, he had no idea he was walking into a sinister plot carefully planned to scam men looking for love.

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Monday issued two advisories advising private television channels as well as digital news publishers and OTT platforms to refrain from showing advertisements of offshore online betting sites and surrogate advertisements of these sites. The advisories were supplemented with evidence which contained dir...

A new law for the registration of media will, for the first time in India, include digital media, which has never been part of any government regulation.

Russian government is facing unprecedented cyberattacks and technical efforts are being made to filter foreign web traffic, the TASS news agency cited the digital ministry as saying on Thursday.

Yahoo has shut down its news websites in India due the new foreign direct investment (FDI) rules that limit foreign ownership of media companies that operate and publish digital content in India.

The government today announced new rules to regulate digital content and establish what it called a "soft touch progressive institutional mechanism with level-playing field" featuring a Code of Ethics and a three-tier grievance redressal framework for news sites and OTT platforms. The rules will empower users of social media, said Union IT Minister...

NDTV has won big in the South Asian Digital Media awards 2020, once again proving that it is the leader in quality journalism and news coverage. Our site ndtv.com has won the silver for Best News Website.

The government has issued an order bringing online news portals and content providers such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hotstar under the Information and Broadcasting ministry. The notification, signed by President Ram Nath Kovind, was issued on Monday. The government regulations also apply to news on social media platforms such as Facebook, ...

Groupe Renault has been developing its own digital platform since 2016 to connect and aggregate industrial data from 22 group sites worldwide and more than 2,500 machines.

Skoda India is all set to launch the much-awaited Karoq SUV in India on May 26. The two-row SUV is slated to make its India debut alongside the Skoda Rapid 1.0 and the Superb facelift. The Czech car manufacturer will be introducing all the three models in India through an all-digital launch event because of the lockdown situation caused by the coro...

With a surge in mobile internet consumption amid a countrywide lockdown, all companies in the digital industry have decided to "temporarily default High Definition (HD) and ultra-HD streaming to Standard Definition (SD) content" or offer only SD content at bitrates no higher than 480p on cellular networks until April 14, according to public broadca...

Thousands of websites, including ones run by US and UK government agencies, were infected for several hours on Sunday with code that causes web browsers to secretly mine digital currencies, technology news site The Register reported.

The deal includes acquisition of Tikona's Broadband Wireless Access spectrum and 350 sites in five telecom circles, Airtel said.

Adobe Digital Insights noted mobiles had a significant impact on the record e-commerce sales on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday.

A pornographic website -- reportedly one of the world's top five -- was hacked and passwords of 72,000 users and credit card details of 40,000 others were stolen, a media report said on Wednesday. The website, "Digital Playground", was hacked by a group that calls itself "The Consortium", the Daily Mail reported.