After both India and Australia accepted the US offer to be part of the expanded G7 meet on China, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his counterpart Scott Morrison will hold a virtual summit on Thursday to strengthen their bilateral strategic relationship. Sources told IANS that this is the first time that the Prime Minister of […]
Photo-messaging app Snapchat has decided not to promote US President Donald Trump’s account on its Discover page of curated content, Axios reported on Wednesday. What makes the Snapchat decision significant is that Trump posted or tweeted controversial content on Twitter and Facebook and not Snapchat. “We are not currently promoting the President’s content on Snapchat’s […]
Pankaj and Radhika Oswal, with business interests in Australia have alleged that the world’s most expensive school, Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland failed to protect their daughter from bullying which ultimately led to serious cyber harassment and attacks towards the young teen. Radhika Oswal told IANS: “Over the last 6 years, altogether we have paid […]
Expressing solidarity with protests against the death of African-American George Floyd, global networking major Cisco on Tuesday announced to postpone its flagship virtual event Cisco Live, along with donating $5 million to NGOs focused on fighting racism. Delaying Cisco Live that was slated to start from Tuesday with over 60,000 registrations, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins […]
A New South Wales court upheld a decision that ruled that news outlets can be held responsible as publishers of allegedly defamatory posts even if those comments were made by their readers on public Facebook pages of their outlets. This is because they “encouraged and facilitated” comments by setting up public Facebook pages, according to […]
Several Facebook employees on Monday staged a “virtual walkout” in protest at the social networking giant’s policies regarding a recent controversial post by President Donald Trump on its platform. The employees took to Twitter, publicly announcing their solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter protests that have seized the nation since the death of African-American George Floyd by a […]
Global credit ratings agency Moody’s Investors Services on Monday downgraded India’s sovereign ratings as it sees challenges piled up on the country’s policymaking institutions to mitigate the risks of a sustained period of relatively low growth. Besides, Moody’s said the Covid-19 pandemic amplifies vulnerabilities in India’s credit profile such as slower growth relative to the […]
US President Donald Trump has announced he was postponing the G7 leaders’ summit, adding it was “outdated” and that he would like to invite more countries to the meeting, including India. “I’m postponing it because I don’t feel that as a G7 it properly represents what’s going on in the world. It is a very […]
Australians in the state of Victoria could face fines if they return to their workplaces from June 1 under the new COVID-19 rules announced on Friday. State Premier Daniel Andrews explained that the working from home advisory had been upgraded, meaning that both employee and employer could be fined for breaching the rules, reports Xinhua […]
Australia remains “on track” in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday. Following a meeting of the National Cabinet, Morrison told reporters that Australia is in a better position than he hoped for when the coronavirus pandemic hit the country in January, reports Xinhua news agency. However, he warned […]