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The proposed regulations 13,500 crore credit fraud in The post of CBI director ocial media giants like mandates them to remove any Punjab National Bank and a has been vacant since then STwitter, Facebook, content flagged by authorities related money laundering case, incumbent Rishi Kumar Shukla WhatsApp and Instagram may within 36 hours and setting up has gone missing in Antigua retired on February 4. be blocked in India as none of a robust complaint redressal where he had been staying them have so far accepted the mechanism with an officer since he escaped from India in Ministry of Electronics & being based in the country. January 2018. was reported missing on be missing. Information Technology in February requires Twitter, spokesperson said in a state- “If social media companies The Royal Police Force of Sunday 23rd May 2021 at the The media reports say (MeITY)’s new guidelines. The Facebook, Instagram and ment, “We aim to comply with do not obey the rules, they may the Caribbean island nation of Johnson Point Police Station,” Choksi, who had taken the cit- three-month deadline given WhatsApp to follow addition- the provisions of the IT rules lose their status and protections Antigua and Barbuda has the statement said. izenship of the Caribbean by the Ministry to accept these al due diligence, including and continue to discuss a few as intermediaries and may launched an operation there to Choksi was last seen on island nation of Antigua and 1%% guidelines ended on May 25. appointment of a chief com- of the issues which need more become liable for criminal trace him. Sunday in his car which was Barbuda, was seen driving in The new guidelines will be pliance officer, a nodal contact engagement with the action as per the existing The Antiguan police, which recovered by the police follow- the southern area of the island 1! effective from May 26. In case person and a resident Government. Pursuant to the laws of India,” top official is probing the issue from a ing searches but he could not be on Sunday. /% "% of non-compliance, the grievance officer. IT rules, we are working to sources said. missing person angle, issued a found, it said in its statement. Reports here quoted %%-& Government could take crim- Facebook, meanwhile, has implement operational Except for one Indian statement along with the pho- “Antiguanewsroom”, a Choksi’s lawyer Vijay Aggarwal inal action against them. stated that they are working on processes and improve effi- social media firm, Koo, sources tograph of the businessman media outlet in the island as confirming that his client P The US-based companies the “operational process” so ciencies. Facebook remains said none of the social media seeking information from the country, quoted Commissioner was missing. Choksi’s family ! had asked for six months’ time that they can comply with the committed to people’s ability to giants has appointed a resident public on his whereabouts. of Police Atlee Rodney on was looking for him and the "#"$%&"',O" as they are waiting for a Government of India’s new IT freely and safely express them- grievance officer, a chief com- “The police are investigat- Tuesday that the police are “fol- island nation’s police have !"' response from their rules. Revealing whether selves on our platform.” pliance officer and a nodal con- ing a Missing Person Report lowing up on the whereabouts launched a search operation to % US headquarters. Facebook will comply with the According to top official tact person yet. made of 62-year-old Mehul of Indian businessman Mehul locate him. 1% The new rules announced rules or not, a company sources, social media platforms Continued on Page 2 Choksi of Jolly Harbour. Mehul Choksi”, who is “rumoured” to Continued on Page 2 -%-,& ' "" " # % P'(( ! ) ( ) QR *+, could happen at the party or the Government level. t is not the first time the he Delhi Police has served closed door meeting The meetings are consid- Imicroblogging site Twitter Tnotices on Congress social Aamong the Sangh leaders ered the beginning for BJP’s has a run-in with high-profile media head Rohan Gupta and in presence of Sar Karyawah or strategy for UP elections, slat- personalities or political lead- party spokesperson MV Rajeev general secretary of RSS ed for early next year. Insiders ers in India. The list is long. It Gowda in connection with the Dattatreya Hosabale in in the party claim that the also includes Home Minister probe into a complaint Lucknow on Tuesday sparked corona epidemic has brought to Amit Shah and Bollywood about the alleged ‘COVID speculation that something big the fore various fault lines in actress Kananga Ranaut. toolkit’ matter. could happen in the the party’s strategies. The The twitter is facing the investigations turned out to be “These are not fresh Government as well as the biggest being a feeling among heat from the Government a fake one. Twitter apologised notices. These notices were party organisation of Uttar the backwards and the most after it tagged BJP spokesper- on both the accounts. served around 8-9 days ago Pradesh. backwards in the BJP that they son Sambit Patra’s tweet The Parliamentary panel based on a complaint received The Sangh leaders are are being ignored. The on a Congress toolkit as on IT had grilled the Twitter from the Congress. They were tight-lipped about the out- Brahmins also feel sidelined as “manipulated”. representatives in India early asked to join the probe so that come of the meeting. One of there is a belief that Thakurs are Twitter faced a huge out- this year for blocking Home it could help us in carrying out the Pracharks told The Pioneer calling the shots in the UP rage from netizens on social Minister’s official account in the investigation forward,” said that “it is a routine meeting” Government because Chief media for “tampering” with the November. a senior police official. where senior leaders sit and Minister Adityanath Yogi accounts of Amit Shah and Continued on Page 2 Continued on Page 2 confabulate about the present belongs to a Thakur caste. Subramanian Swamy last situation and how Sangh can “UP election is not easy. It November to which the play a role in this situation. is a caste maze where the party Twitter had to issue regrets He further said that it was which can get its caste equa- immediately. ! cers and staff are working to measure. The authorities are Hosabale’s first visit to tions correct wins the elections. The microblogging site had fight the cyclone Yaas that is working to ensure the supply of Lucknow after being appoint- This time members of the removed the display picture of " likely to make a landfall on oxygen and medicines to hos- ed as the Sar Karyawah of the backward community are like- Amit Shah on November 13 $ Wednesday morning between pitals during the storm. RSS and therefore this meeting ly to play a decisive role,” a last year in response to a Police “expose lame-duck Paradeep in Odisha and Ganga “I have spoken to all the was called today. senior upper caste leader said, “report from the copyright attempts” to hide a “fraudulent Sagar Islands in Bengal. DMs… they have been put on The importance of the quoting Keshav Prasad Maurya holder. The image was restored he Congress has slammed toolkit” by BJP leaders. Meanwhile, cyclone Yaas high alert. A control room has meeting could be gauged from was not utilised properly. after a while. A similar situation Tthe Centre and the Delhi Congress chief spokesper- intensified into a very severe been set up in every block,” the fact that two days back A feeling within the party took place when with Swamy’s Police for serving noticec on son Randeep Surjewala has hifting of over 10 lakh peo- cyclonic storm on Tuesday Mamata said, adding she would Hosabale held a meeting with is party’s State president banner picture was restored two of its leaders in the “Covid written to Twitter’s Lead for Sple from low lying and evening, India Meteorological “Stay at Nabanna tonight. I will Prime Minister Narendra Swatantra Dev Singh, who was only after a legal threat to toolkit” case and also ques- Legal, Policy and Trust and coastal areas to 12,000 relief Department (IMD) Director monitor the situation closely.” Modi, Union Home Minister very successful as general sec- Twitter India. tioned the relevance of “raid- Safety Vijaya Gadde and its camps in West Bengal and General M Mohapatra said. Experts said evacuation of Amit Shah, organising secre- retary of the party, has failed to Twitter initially responded ing” Twitter’s offices in Delhi Deputy General Counsel Jim Odisha may aggravate The IMD has issued a red- 10 lakh people from coastal tary (Uttar Pradesh) Sunil deliver as party president.