India's Union government mandates SIM card verification and six-hour session timeouts for messaging apps to combat cyber fraud. Platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram must ensure continuous SIM linkage, ...

A new directive will soon require users to access apps like WhatsApp only with theirregistered SIM card. The Centre is changing the way WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram work. A new directive from the ...

On Friday the department of telecommunications (DoT) asked companies that own messaging apps such as Whatsapp, Signal, Telegram and others not to allow users without active SIM cards in their phones ...

India to enforce 6-hour logouts; expats must keep WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal tied to SIM Dubai: New rules from India’s telecom ministry could change how you use messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, ...

That means no more using WhatsApp on a phone with a different SIM, no more shifting between devices freely, and far more frequent logouts on web versions of these messaging applications. The ...

New Delhi: The Indian government has issued a major directive that could change how millions of people use popular messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Snapchat, ShareChat, JioChat, ...

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued directions to app-based communication service providers to make it impossible for their users to use services without a SIM. This comes after the ...

The Union government passed directions on Friday (November 28, 2025) requiring services like WhatsApp to only work if users have the SIM card used to sign up for the service in their device, and to ...

Rajesh started following the latest happenings in the world of Android around the release of the Nexus One and Samsung Galaxy S. After flashing custom ROMs and kernels on his beloved Galaxy S, he ...

British police are set to gain enhanced powers at ports, enabling officers to compel illegal migrants to remove outer garments and undergo mouth searches. The measures aim to uncover mobile phones or ...

In a sweeping regulatory move, the Indian government has directed popular messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Snapchat, ShareChat, JioChat, Arattai, and Josh to tie user access strictly to ...

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