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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 […]
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Mancherial: Kondapalli Sharath, a young farmer from Nennal mandal, found an innovative way to sell mangoes and reaped good results too. He used WhatsApp and Facebook to directly sell Mangoes to customers in several districts of Telangana instead of selling the mangoes to agents, who are known to offer less price to the farmer, but […]
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San Francisco: Meta-owned WhatsApp is likely working on a feature that would let users chat with the same account on multiple phones, or on a phone and a tablet. A screen found in a beta version of the app by the site WABetaInfo gives instructions for registering the device you are using as a “companion” […]
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New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp has confirmed that it is running a cash-back campaign in India to drive more users on its digital payments service. The company is giving away Rs 11 cashback up to three times by sending money to three different contacts via unified payments interface (UPI) on WhatsApp. “We are running a campaign […]
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Kothagudem: Cyber-crooks have created a fake WhatsApp account of the District Collector Anudeep Durishetty and sent messages to the officers working in the district asking for money. In a statement here on Monday the Collector said that some strangers using his name and profile photo to send messages on WhatsApp from different phone numbers with […]
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Peddapalli: A twenty one-year-old stalker committed suicide as the girl refused to accept his love proposal. This bizarre incident took place in Gunjapadugu of Manthani mandal on Sunday night. Gali Sandeep made suicide attempt by dousing himself with petrol in front of the girl’s residence in Gunjapadu and sustained severe burning injuries. Local people shifted […]
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San Francisco: In a bid to make group calling better, Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp will now reportedly support up to 32 participants in group voice calls. According to 9To5Mac, with version 22.8.80 of the app, users will now be able to participate in group voice calls with up to 32 people. This update includes a […]
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Mancherial: Janagama Srinivas Goud, a 58-year old farmer launched a marathon walkathon from Mancherial to Hyderabad, seeking Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s intervention in correcting errors in revenue records of his land, here on Thursday. He would cover a distance of 250 kilometers in his tough quest. Srinivas regretted that he had been moving […]
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Mancherial: Tension prevailed for a while when activists of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) clashed with each other over a message in a WhatsApp group in Bellampalli on Tuesday night. Members of the TRS staged a sit-in in front of a commercial establishment in the town, alleging the owner of […]
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New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp has announced to add emoji reactions directing in its chat app, allow up to 32 people in a single group voice call and increase file sharing to support files up to 2GB, up from the current sharing size of 100MB. WhatsApp will first allow users to react with six key emoji […]
