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The deadly “Blue Whale Challenge”, an online game which urges players to fulfil self-harming challenges resulting in suicide, has already claimed a few victims across the country, alarming the authorities. In a bid to stop it, the government has directed social media and internet companies such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft to immediately remove the game, which has claimed 100 lives across the world, from their platforms.
In an August 11 letter to Google India, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Microsoft India and Yahoo India, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has instructed, “It is understood that an administrator of the
