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Hyderabad: Covid positive patients from other States seeking treatment in Telangana will need a prior tie-up with hospitals here for admissions. The hospitals in turn will have to apply for authorisation, based on which the patients will come for hospitalisation, according to the new guidelines issued by the State government on Thursday. With a large […]

The Facebook-owned messaging platform with more than two billion users, with over 400 million users in India, warned that failing to accept the new policy would result in users losing some functionalities after "persistent reminders".

WhatsApp had faced severe backlash over user concerns that data was being shared with parent company Facebook.

Hyderabad: Telangana police with the support of voluntary organisations on Thursday launched a free food (lunch) service for Covid patients who are in isolation, at their doorstep. The needy people can order through a WhatsApp message to the number +91 7799616163, provide their name, contact number, location and isolated Covid positive patients’ details. This service […]

Jeddah: The NRI community living in the Gulf region is concerned about the health and safety for their loved ones back home as Covid-19 rages on in India. Many of them are glued to their phones and awaiting news about their loved ones. Heartbreaking stories are coming in from India as the second wave of […]

Very excited to start enabling Payments in WhatsApp in Brazil today. This will be a gradual roll-out, but enabling people in Brazil to pay one another in conversations as easily as sending a text message is going to be so useful

“I tried for 30 minutes to get an OTP and even then I was unable to login,” said Jaswanth, a city-based entrepreneur.

According to WABetaInfo, a website that tracks WhatsApp in Beta, revealed that the disappearing message feature will be available in a future update.

Hyderabad: The police have warned citizens against sharing unverified posts and videos pertaining to the night curfew and the Covid-19 pandemic. This is after several videos of police personnel using lathis on those violating norms began making rounds on social media after the curfew began, even when there were no such incidents, with many of […]

A single bench of Justice Navin Chawla said it did not find merit in the petition and refused to quash the CCI probe. The court said probe cannot be quashed merely because CCI did not await the outcome of the cases pending

Warangal-based Akhil Ennamsetty was one of the first Covid-19 survivors in Telangana who was successfully treated and recovered at the government Gandhi Hospital in March last year

With a new malware spreading quite fast through WhatsApp messages, cybercrime officials have warned the public of a link that promises to change their WhatsApp theme from the trademark green into a soothing pink

Currently, people can browse more than 8 million business catalogs on WhatsApp, including 1 million in India, to find something they might like to buy.

The ability to use the same WhatsApp account on multiple devices is one of the most requested features by users, as well as an iPad version of Instagram.

Hyderabad: During the month of March, the SHE Teams Cyberabad had dealt with 154 complaints that were received through different sources such as WhatsApp, email, Hawkeye and also direct walk-in. All the complaints were acted upon and disposed off based on merit. The teams received over 70 complaints of phone harassment by victims in March […]

Based on a complaint, the Cybercrime police booked a case and with the help of technical clues identified and nabbed him

On one of the instances the woman sent videos and persuaded the victim to start a nude chat. On being lured by the con woman, the man indulged in explicit chat. The woman recorded the act and later blackmailed him into transferring Rs. 10 lakh

The platform, launched in September last year, is up for use by farmers of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and parts of Karnataka

The links, police said, were phishing links, with the website itself being a fake one!

During the outage late on Friday, more than 1 lakh users reported issues with Instagram on online outage tracker DownDetector, and over 25,000 users reported issues with WhatsApp.