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San Francisco: After announcing that some major features are under development such as group polls and WhatsApp Premium, WhatsApp is now working on the ability to edit text messages for a future update of WhatsApp beta testers. According to WABetaInfo, the Meta-owned platform is now working on letting users edit their text messages for a […]
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New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp on Wednesday said that it banned over 16.6 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of April in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021. The platform had banned over 18 lakh such accounts in the country in March. The company also received 844 grievance reports in April within the […]
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San Francisco: After releasing the Reactions feature, Meta-owned WhatsApp is now planning to improve the function even more with a few tweaks for iOS users. With this feature, users can react with up to six emojis in any conversation, audio, photo, and more. Beta version 22.12.0.70 of WhatsApp for iOS brings detailed Reactions information. This […]
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Hyderabad: Growing up in a desi household, have you ever felt that you could be appreciated a little better for your achievements? Well, you are wrong if you think you are the only one feeling this way. A similar thing has happened to this Twitter user named Harish Uthayakumar. Harish, co-founder of Bluelearn and YouTuber, […]
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Hyderabad: Special Chief Secretary MA&UD, Arvind Kumar has filed a complaint against e- fraudsters for allegedly using his image in a WhatsApp number and sending messages to people. A conman had put a display picture on WhatsApp profile with number ‘74669-05844’ and sent messages to a few persons. The message sent to one person by […]
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Karimnagar: A Sanskrit lecturer with a prominent women’s college in the State capital was arrested after he allegedly began stalking and even threatened an acid attack on a former classmate of his, who rejected his proposal. The Karimnagar police apprehended Puppala Bharadwaj from Wanaparthy on Tuesday and produced him before a court in Karimnagar late […]
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Hyderabad: WhatsApp, the popular messaging application owned by Meta, will reportedly drop support for iOS10, iOS11, iPhone 5, and iPhone 5C by October 24 this year. The least supporting base will be iOS 12 and above to fully enjoy the features of the app. The move comes in order to upgrade and implement the new […]
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New Delhi: Digilocker documents such as the PAN card, driving licence, vehicle registration certificate can now be easily accessed via MyGov Helpdesk on WhatsApp, MyGov announced on Monday. Citizens will now be able to create and authenticate their own Digilocker account on WhatsApp and download documents such as PAN card; driving licence; CBSE Class X […]
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Rajanna-Sircilla: A fake WhatsApp account along with the profile picture of the District Collector Anurag Jayanthi was created by cyber criminals to collect money. The account was created by using the mobile number 7466905844. Posting a message on his twitter account on Sunday night, the Collector informed that he came to know that cyber criminals […]
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New Delhi: In a bid to further boost Meta-WhatApp business integration, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced to open the mobile messaging platform to businesses of all sizes globally with WhatsApp Cloud API (application programming interface) hosted by the parent company. With this move, any business or developer can easily access the service, build directly on […]
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Hyderabad: Do you have any grievances relating to passport or other services? If yes, you can now directly talk to the Regional Passport Officer (RPO) over WhatsApp video call and get grievance redressed. A new service ‘Chat with your RPO’, launched by the Regional Passport Office, Hyderabad on Thursday, facilitates applicants to directly talk to […]
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Mancherial: Unable to bear alleged harassment by digital money lending applications, a married woman ended life by hanging in Mancherial on Wednesday. It was the first such an instance to be reported in the district. Mancherial Inspector B Narayana Naik said that the victim was Bollu Kalyani (30), a homemaker from Gopalwada in the town. […]
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Hyderabad: Jumped the traffic signal and didn’t even notice? Don’t worry. Check your WhatsApp. The Hyderabad Traffic Police are going the WhatsApp way now to send messages informing motorists about the traffic rules they broke while driving and on the penalties imposed. The HTP started the new initiative recently taking into account the widespread use […]
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San Francisco: With an aim to make the messaging platform more user friendly, Meta-owned WhatsApp has announced that it is rolling out new features, including emoji reactions, bigger files and groups. The company said that it is slowly rolling out the ability to add up to 512 people to a group, which, till now, allowed […]
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San Francisco: Meta-owned WhatsApp is now rolling out the ability to react to messages to people that use the most recent versions of WhatsApp for Android, iOS, Web and Desktop. According to WABetaInfo, the current version of message reactions brings six emojis — Like, Love, Laugh, Surprised, Sad, and Thanks. Reactions are available for chats and […]
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Visakhapatnam: City police busted an international human trafficking case with the arrest of two persons and rescued a woman belonging to Bangladesh. Deputy Commissioner of Police Sumit Sunil said here on Wednesday that a woman, Beesetti Dhanalakshmi, 37, was running a brothel house in the water tank area near Pendurthi for some time. She has […]
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Hyderabad: One of the top officials in the State, Urban Development Special Chief Secretary Arvind Kumar, has become victim of an impersonation scam which had fraudsters using his photo as the display picture for a WhatsApp number and requesting money from people. On being alerted by people who knew him about the fake WhatsApp account, […]
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There is a steep rise in legal mobile lending in India. This however, has become a blessing in disguise for apps from scammers. The extent of fake loan apps is so high that Google’s Play Store had to remove over 200 of them since the last quarter of 2021 due to policy violations. But they […]
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New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp on Monday said that it banned over 18 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of March in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021. The platform had banned over 14 lakh such accounts in the country in February. The company said that it also received 597 grievance reports in the […]
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San Francisco: Meta-owned WhatsApp is likely working on the ability to view status updates right within the chats list in a future update of the app. According to WABetaInfo, this feature is under development so it has not been rolled out to beta testers yet. “Another improvement for status updates is coming in a future […]
