This comes amid a tussle between the Union authorities and Twitter over the new IT rules

1. Twitter over the new IT
rules, Twitter India
representatives depose
before a parliamentary
panel

2. Amid a tussle between the Union government
and Twitter over the brand new IT policies,
officials of the microblogging site on Friday
deposed before a parliamentary panel chaired
by means of Congress' Shashi Tharoor over
stopping misuse of social media.
earlier this month, the Centre issued a observe
to Twitter giving it one remaining danger to
"without delay" observe the new IT rules and
warned that failure to stick to the norms will
cause the platform dropping exemption from
legal responsibility beneath the IT Act.
The Parliamentary status Committee on
information and generation, chaired by means
of Tharoor, had final week summoned Twitter
over issues related to misuse of the platform
and safety of residents' rights.
Twitter India's public policy supervisor
Shagufta Kamran and criminal suggest Ayushi
Kapoor deposed before the panel on Friday.

3. Twitter and the Centre had been at
loggerheads over several troubles for the
previous couple of months.
The microblogging website had faced
backlash when it in brief eliminated the 'blue
tick' verification badge from the non-public
account of Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu
and of numerous senior RSS functionaries,
along with its leader Mohan Bhagwat.
earlier, Delhi Police had despatched a notice
to Twitter, searching for an evidence of how it
defined an alleged "Congress toolkit" in
opposition to the relevant government as
manipulated media.
The police reportedly had additionally
questioned Twitter India MD Manish
Maheshwari on can also 31 and visited the
Twitter India offices in Delhi and Gurgaon on
may 24 over the toolkit difficulty.