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• India says 'yes' to net neutrality

  India's government has approved net neutrality to ensure all web traffic is treated fairly, and that ISPs won't block, throttle ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• WhatsApp begins its difficult battle against fake news in India

  Following numerous lynchings across India, fueled by misinformation spread via WhatsApp, the messaging service is responding ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• India's ruling party accused of $12B Bitcoin scam by opposition

  A lot of cryptocurrency news has been coming out of India lately, and not for good.  The country’s largest political party, ...

  • Neer Varshney

• India’s cryptocurrency ban has already taken its first toll

  It seems that Indian Supreme Court's decision to uphold the central bank's directive against cryptocurrency businesses is ...

  • Neer Varshney

• India must blame itself, not WhatsApp, for its devastating lynching spree

  At least 29 people across India have lost their lives since last May in lynchings by mobs who believed they were kidnappers, ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• No, Indian women are not bigger cryptocurrency investors than men

  Getting more women into the industry is talk of the town, and it seems cryptocurrency businesses are using it to fuel their ...

  • Neer Varshney

• Google launches an app for discovering your neighborhood through local experts

  Google has launched Neighbourly, a mobile app designed to help you learn about your neighborhood by asking other residents. ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• A yoga guru is taking on WhatsApp in India with a rival messaging service (Update: not anymore)

  Swami Ramdev may not be a household name around the world, but boy, is he big in India. After taking the country's consumer ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• India considers taxing cryptocurrencies instead of banning them

  It appears that the government of India is not banning cryptocurrencies, instead contemplating taxing them.  The government ...

  • Neer Varshney

• Walmart agrees to buy Flipkart, India's largest online store

  Japanese conglomerate SoftBank's CEO Masayoshi Son has confirmed that Flipkart - India's largest online store - will be acquired ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Indian President says Sanskrit is the best language for developing AI

  The President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, says Sanskrit is as well-suited for algorithms and machine learning as it is for ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Google Search now helps you hunt for jobs in India

  Roughly a year after launching its job search tool in the US, Google is bringing the feature to India today.

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal