India Internet News

Talks on multi-year hyperscale deals have been on hold for over two months as big tech companies including Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have reportedly halted new data centre leasing in India amid rising trade and policy tensions between the United States and the Indian government.

Ram Manohar Lohia once warned that agar sadke suni ho jayengi to sansad awara ho jayegi meaning that if streets fall silent, Parliament will go astray. Those streets have found their parallel in social media in this modern era. Viral content, hashtags, and social campaigns are today’s versions of marches and sit-ins, transmitting the substance of popular protest straight to the seats of power.

India offers the lowest prices, with monthly internet costing around $7.70. Russia came second: Rosstat figures show that the average monthly subscription fee is 693 roubles, or about $8.70. Romania came third, where internet costs $9.80 per month.

Other countries with the most affordable internet include China ($11.30), Uzbekistan ($11.50), Kyrgyzstan ($11.70), Kazakhstan ($12.70), Turkiye ($13.80), Bulgaria ($14.60) and Lithuania ($16.50). The top 15 is rounded out by Poland ($17.20), Georgia ($17.40), Thailand ($18.40), Armenia ($19.10) and Latvia ($19.70).

Answering an unstarred question, Vijayan told the assembly last week that the suicides were reported from 2021 until September 9 this year. This figure was 24 from 2021 to May 2024, which shows the sudden increase in the number of minors taking their own lives after getting trapped in the digital world, the CM said.

Besides this, 30 minors trapped in sexual exploitation and drug abuse due to mobile and internet abuse have been tracked down during the period.

Social media platform X said on Monday it plans to appeal an Indian court order that would allow over two million police officers nationwide to issue arbitrary takedown requests via a secretive online portal called the Sahyog.

"We will appeal this order to defend free expression," X said in a post on the platform, in its first statement since the High Court of Karnataka ruled last week that there was no legal merit to the company's legal challenge to quash India's content removal mechanisms.

India’s e-waste recycling industry is booming. But projections show that even by 2035, it will process only 40 percent of the country’s waste mountain.

Recycling, after all, is an energy-hungry business — shredding, sorting, melting and refining machines run round the clock, burning through at least Rs 120 worth of electricity per metric tonne of waste.

The way Silicon Valley’s biggest AI companies are attempting to capture India’s users in 2025 is an upgraded model of what Facebook tried in 2015: offer an experience of the new technology for free and distribute it via partnerships with India’s telcos. Back then, Facebook tied up with Reliance Communications to give away Free Basics. Today, Perplexity is working with Airtel to do the same.

On 19 August 2025, Jio and Airtel, together holding 75% of the market, have discontinued their most affordable plans costing ₹249 for 1GB/day:

This move has hit rural and low-income households hardest, as many relied on these plans for basic connectivity.

The platform is trained on proprietary data, supported by an Innovate UK grant, and scans ownership structures, regulatory filings, and negative media. It applies behavioral analysis and pattern recognition to uncover links that might otherwise remain buried.

"The potential consequences of not having a modern and realistic data sovereignty strategy are acute. Loss of trust, financial damage and competitive disadvantage are possible outcomes that cannot be ignored. We recommend a hybrid approach to data sovereignty: start with a risk assessment across workloads, keep critical workloads sovereign, and use the public cloud for the rest. A balanced strategy optimises reducing risk while maintaining speed of innovation and organisational resilience," said Alex McMullan, Chief Technology Officer, International, Pure Storage.