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Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday announced the extension of lockdown ten more days.

The decision was taken during the state cabinet meeting which met on Sunday at Pragathi Bhavan to review the COVID-19 situation in the state and decision on lockdown. This is the second extension in the lockdown since its imposition on May 12.

As per the latest health bulletin, the number of infection rate has come down and mortality rate is also satisfactory.

Keeping in view of the present situation KCR has decided to extent the lockdown till

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Hyderabad-based cab driver association “Telangana Gig and Platform Workers Union” (TGPWU) is offering help to pregnant women by giving them free cab service to the hospital.
They have helped safely escort more than 27 pregnant women to hospitals during the last week of lockdown in Telangana.

Speaking to ANI, Shaik Salauddin, the founder and State President of TGPWU said, “On the grounds of humanitarian works, we have started ferrying pregnant women to hospitals free of cost during this pandemic situation. We have started this free service to pregnant women just a week back and has been receiving a great response from the public.

A team of Delhi Police Special Cell arrived at the offices of Twitter India in Delhi and Gurugram on Monday evening to serve a notice to the microblogging platform in connection to it classifying as ‘manipulated” a tweet by BJP leader Sambit Patra on ‘Congress toolkit”.

This was necessitated as the police wanted to ascertain who was the right person to serve a notice to, as replies by Twitter India MD had been very ambiguous, said government sources.

There has been a lot of hue and cry today when Delhi Police went to serve a notice to Twitter, said the sources, adding that this is the third notice given to Twitter by Delhi Police.
Sources said that instead of cooperating with law enforcement, Twitter has tried to play victim by mischievously overplaying a routine procedure.

The team reached the the social site’s offices in Lado Sarai and Gurugram and sought a response to its notice to the site over a complaint regarding the alleged Covid-19 ‘toolkit’, an official said.

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‘Delhi Police is enquiring into a complaint in which clarification is sought from the Twitter regarding the classification of a tweet by Sambit Patra as ‘manipulative’. It appears that Twitter has some information which is not known to us on the basis of which they have classified it as such. This information is relevant to the enquiry. Special Cell which is conducting the enquiry wants to find out the truth. Twitter which has claimed to know the underlying truth should clarify,” a statement by the Delhi Police said.

It appears that Twitter has some information that is not known to the police. This information is relevant to the inquiry, Delhi Police PRO Chinmoy Biswal said.

The police, however, refused to divulge the contents of the complaint or the identity of the complainant. The BJP has accused the Congress of creating a ‘toolkit’ that seeks to tarnish the image of the country and Prime Minister Narendra Modi by calling the new strain of coronavirus as ‘India strain” or ‘Modi strain”.

However, the Congress has denied the allegation and claimed that the BJP is propagating a fake ‘toolkit’ to defame it. Last week, Twitter labelled as ‘manipulated media” a tweet by Patra on the alleged ‘toolkit’. Twitter says it ‘may label Tweets that include media (videos, audio, and images) that have been deceptively altered or fabricated”.

Biswal said the Delhi Police is inquiring into a complaint in connection with which a clarification has been sought from Twitter regarding the classification of a tweet by Patra as ‘manipulative”. ‘It appears that Twitter has some information which is not known to us on the basis of which they have classified it (Patra’s tweet) as such. This information is relevant to the inquiry. The Special Cell, which is conducting the inquiry, wants to find out the truth. Twitter, which has claimed to know the underlying truth, should clarify,” he said.

BJP leaders, including Patra, have posted numerous tweets to attack the Congress over the purported ‘toolkit’. On May 19, the Congress lodged a police complaint seeking registration of cases against BJP chief J P Nadda, Union minister Smriti Irani, BJP general secretary B L Santosh and Patra over the alleged forgery of documents.

The Chhattisgarh unit of the Congress’ students wing NSUI also lodged a complaint against Patra and former chief minister Raman Singh for allegedly ‘forging” the letterhead of AICC Research Department and printing ‘false and fabricated” content on it. On the basis of the complaint, a case has been filed against Patra and Singh at the Civil Lines police station in Raipur.

RANCHI: In an unusual incident taking place at Bokaro, a bank employee, after being denied leave by his seniors reached his workplace with oxygen support along with his family members.

The incident took place at Sector 4 branch of Punjab National Bank, where the family members alleged that despite the fact that Arvind Kumar has recovered from COVID-19 but his lungs are still infected due to which he is on oxygen support at home but the bank officials are pressurizing him to join office.
When the bank officials did not consider his leave application, he even submitted his resignation, which was also rejected. Now, they are threatening to cut his salary due to which he was forced to come to work with oxygen support,” said one of the family members who accompanied him to the bank.

With no other option left, he was forced to join office with oxygen support on Monday, he added.

Kumar, however, was asked to go home after a high voltage drama was created by family members in the bank. Meanwhile, the bank officials refrained from speaking anything on the issue.

New Delhi: Will social media companies like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram stop working in India after two days? This question is currently under discussion. In fact, on February 25 this year, the Government of India, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) had given all social media companies three months to comply with the regulations.

Companies were asked to provide their official and contact number in India, appoint a grievance redressal officer, resolve grievances, monitor objectionable material and remove it.

In fact, people on social media do not know who to complain to and where their grievances will be resolved. Some companies have asked for six months, while others say they are awaiting instructions from their headquarters in the United States. Interestingly, these companies are operating in India, making a profit here but waiting for the green light from their headquarters for instructions. Companies like Twitter have their own fact checkers, which neither reveal their identities nor the manner in which the facts are being checked.

Under Section 79 of the IT Act, they are exempt from liability as intermediaries, but many of them are taking decisions on matters that do not comply with the Indian Constitution and laws. The new regulations are set to take effect on May 26, 2021. If these companies do not comply with these regulations, their intermediate status may be terminated and they may be subject to criminal proceedings under the existing laws of India.