Meanwhile, the state police on Monday said 31 people, including the state head of Popular Front of India (PFI) and 16 other workers of the Islamist outfit, have been arrested in connection with the violence in the state capital during the protests against the amended Citizenship Act last week.
As a precautionary measure, the administration has shut internet in parts of Gautam Buddh Nagar and Ghaziabad. The feeling was echoed by a petrol pump staff at Vaishali in Ghaziabad. "Online payments are easy and used frequently. More people are switching to it.
"Internet is back" -- this was a common status of many users on social media platforms as mobile data services were restored across Assam on Friday, ending a nearly 10-day internet drought in the state.
Amid ongoing protests against the new Citizenship law, internet services in Ghaziabad have been suspended till 10 pm on Friday. The Ghaziabad district administration in a statement said: "Internet services to be suspended in the district from 10 pm on Thursday till 10 pm on December 20."
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Making the announcement, a state government statement said the internet services were being shut down in Malda, Murshidabad and Howah districts.
The administration has denied permission to BSP leader and Mayor Furqaan Ali, who wanted to hold a protest against the passage of the citizenship bill in Parliament, District magistrate Chandra Bhushan Singh said.
The hackers changed the password after hacking into= the Internet banking account and added benificiaries between November 11 to 13.
Agra Circle Superintending Archaeologist Vasant Kumar Swarnkar told PTI that ASI has contacted BSNL, Airtel, Vodafone-Idea, Jio to increase their signal strength near the sites the standees have been put
According to Police Commissioner Anand Shrivastav: "The social media is being monitored. WhatsApp groups spreading hate messages have been identified and are being deleted. Those spreading hate messages will be acted against."
Pakistan is among the worst 10 countries in the world for internet and digital media freedom, according to a report by an internet watchdog. The Freedom House, an international internet rights group, on Tuesday, released its ''Freedom on the Net'' (FoTN) report for the year 2019, titled ''The Crisis of Social Media'', recording an overall decline in global internet freedom between June 2018 and May 2019.
Over 800,000 websites hosting political, religious and social content remain blocked while the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority continued to restrict content in a non-transparent and arbitrary fashion, the report said.
Internet services were disrupted across Pakistan on Tuesday due to a fault in international submarine cables that connect the country with the world.
According to internet speed tester Ookla, the broadband internet download speed in India has risen by 16.2 per cent.
One of the most cherished domain name in the history of Internet domains - Democracy.com -- is up for sale, and the bid starts at $300,000. First registered in the mid-1990s by online startup Intraactive in Washington, DC, the domain name is currently owned by entrepreneur Talmage Cooley who has put it up for sale as the company has run out of money, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.
An estimated 66 million children aged between 5-11 years in India access internet on devices of their family members, constituting about 15 per cent of the country's active internet userbase, as per IAMAI.
More than a dozen companies have asked U.S. regulators for permission to operate constellations of satellites that provide internet service. Not all are aimed at connecting consumers, but some have grand and global ambitions.
The top court is currently dealing with several petitions related to the abrogation of Article 370.
According to a report issued by the China Internet Network Information Centre, the number of internet users saw a hike by 25.98 million from the end of last year, with the internet availability rate up by 1.6 per cent.
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