Sri Lanka on Tuesday said it has formed a task force to combat cyber harassment.


Sri Lanka forms task force to combat cyber harassment


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Australian surfer Alex Hayes's selfie showing a large shark only metres away from his surfboard that he shared on Instagram recently has turned out to be fake.


Aussie surfer's selfie with shark goes viral, turns out fake


What could have made Twitter grow beyond being just a micro-blogging, social media site and relent on its strict 140-character limit - at least for direct messaging services? Come July twitteratis can send direct messages on the platform as long as 10,000 characters.


What made Twitter look beyond 140 characters?


The Chinese authorities for the press and publications, responsible for censorship in China, have announced a bill that would prohibit web pages and portals from producing news by themselves and impose censorship on such content.


China may censor digital journalism


Many of America's most admired companies are not very active on social media, reveals a study.


Most US companies inactive on social media


Researchers have generated a unique "digital library" of Twitter users with sleep problems to understand and help treat sleep disorders better.


Twitter data to help treat sleep disorders


Twitter's chief executive officer (CEO) Dick Costolo has decided to step down in July, the company's top brass announced.


CEO of Twitter calls it quits


The Interpol office in Colombia has apprehended a Venezuelan man wanted for killing a journalist during anti-government protests here in early 2014, Venezuela's justice minister said on Thursday.


Venezuelan wanted for journalist's murder nabbed in Colombia


The Saudi Arabian foreign ministry rejected on Thursday criticism made by some countries and international organisations on the arrest of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, the Saudi Press Agency reported.


Saudi Arabia rejects interference in blogger case


Two photographs, purportedly of the Indian Army's Special Forces team that conducted an operation against militants along the Myanmar border, stoked controversy on the social media on Thursday, with the defence ministry denying having issued any such images.


Army photos in media: Defence ministry denies issuing visuals


K.V. Chowdary, a former head of the Central Board of Direct Taxes, was on Wednesday sworn in as the new Central Vigilance Commissioner by President Pranab Mukherjee.

K.V. Chowdary sworn in as new CVC

Share prices of South Indian language satellite channel broadcasting major Sun TV Network Ltd tumbled at the bourses on Monday following the news that its channels were going off air.


Sun TV Network's scrip tumbles


An Iranian court on Monday resumed the trial of a Washington Post reporter over spying and propaganda charges, media reported.


Iran resumes scribe's trial over spying charge


Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rousing speech and the 65-point joint declaration that wrapped up his two-day trip to Bangladesh received huge splash on Monday in the Bangladesh media, which termed the Indian leader as a "visionary" and one "thinking out of the box".

Modi a visionary: Bangladesh media on PM's visit

South Indian language satellite channel broadcasting major Sun TV Network Ltd's scrip price saw a drastic fall on Monday in the bourses following the news that its channels were going off air.


Sun TV's scrip crashes on fear of channels going off air


The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Telangana on Monday continued questioning TDP legislator A. Revanth Reddy and two others in the cash-for-vote scam.


ACB questions TDP MLA, aides in cash-for-vote scam


Expressing concern over "weak and insecure financial situation of media persons in India", union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Sunday said it affects the "honest, transparent and professional journalism".


Journalists' financial state matter of concern, says Mukhtar Naqvi


Highlighting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit as "the dawn of a new era" and echoing his description of the signing of the Land Boundary Agreement protocol as a "historic moment" in bilateral ties, newspapers in Bangladesh on Sunday said the neighbours have reached a crucial juncture of cooperation.


Dawn of new era: Bangladesh dailies on Modi visit


Bogota, June 7 (IANS/EFE) The Colombian Attorney General's Office has re-arrested former paramilitary Alejandro Cardenas Orozco, alias "JJ," one of the suspected rapists of a journalist Jineth Bedoya 15 years ago.


Colombia re-arrests suspected rapist of journalist


P.K. Iyer, vice chairman of the Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd. (DCHL), was arrested from a hotel here on Saturday in connection with an alleged loan fraud.


Deccan Chronicle vice chairman held for fraud


Just when the Narendra Modi government was celebrating its first year in office on a note of simulated well being, Gardiner Harris, bureau chief of New York Times in New Delhi, spoilt the party by making a gloomy announcement: New Delhi, the capital of Modi's dream nation, was unlivable and that Harris was leaving, with his wife and children to the cleaner air of Washington.

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