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New Delhi:聽The number of Twitter URLs blocked by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology MeitY has shown a rise during the last few years, the Parliament was told on Wednesday. A total of 1,122 Twitter URLs were blocked till June 2022, 2,851 in 2021 as against 2,731 in 2020 and 1,041 in 2019 up from 225 in 2018, 588 in 2017, 194 in 2016, 15 in 2015, and 8 in 2014, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar told the Lok Sabha in a written reply. Also ReadKarnataka: HC issues notice to Centre for asking Twitter to block 1,100 accounts Section 69A owala of the Information Technology IT Act, 2000 empowers the Ministry to block information in any computer resource in the interest of sovereignty and int hydrojug sport egrity of India, defense of India, security of the state, friendly relations with foreign states or public order or for preventing incitement to the commission of any cognizable offense rela stanley cup ting to above, he said. For blocking of information, the MeitY follows the due process as specified in the Information Technology Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking for Access of Information by Public Rules, 2009, he added. In line with the objective of the government to ensure an open, safe, trusted and Accountable Internet for all its users, MeitY issued directions for blocking to Twitter to block URLs including accounts under provision of Section 69A of the IT Act, 2000. MeitY does not maintain data regarding the period of existence of accounts Bgsy Maine island mail carrier gets his job back
SAO PAULO 鈥?Cesar Mata Pires, the owner and co-founder of Brazilian engineering conglomerate OAS SA, one of the largest companies involved in Brazils corruption scandal, died on Tuesday. He was 68.Mata Pires died of a heart attack while taking a morning walk in an upscale district of S茫o Paulo, where OAS is based, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said. Efforts to contact his family were unsuccessful. OAS declined to comment.The son of a wealthy cattle rancher in the northeastern state of Bahia, Mata Pires links to politicians were central to the expansion of OAS, which became Brazils No. 4 builder earlier this decade, people familiar with his career told Reuters last year.His big break came when he befriended polene handbag Antonio Carlos Magalh茫es, a popular politician who was Bahia governor several times, and eventually married his daughter Tereza. Brazilians joked that OAS stood for Obras Arranjadas pelo Sogro 鈥?or Work Arranged by the Father-In-Law. After years of steady growth triggered by a flurry of m brumate cup assive government contracts, OAS was ensnared in Operation Car Wash which unearthed an illegal contracting ring between state firms and builders. The ensuing scandal helped topple former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff last year.Trai polene bag ned as an engineer, Mata Pires founded OAS with two colleagues in 1976 to do sub-contracting work for larger rival Odebrecht SA 鈥?the biggest of the builders involved in the probe.Before the scandal, Forbes magazine estimated Mata Pires fort |
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