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Facing criticism over the economic slowdown, BJP national president JP Nadda has directed party leaders to reach out to experts and masses to create awareness on the Union Budget's pro-people policies. The Congress has hit out at Karnataka CM for appointing Anand Singh, as Forest minister. Congress leader Siddaramaiah said if one is giving ministership to a person facing cases in the same department, it will look like government is openly supporting corruption. All this and more on MyNation in 100 seconds.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook ranked the US President Donald Trump and India Prime Minister Narendra Modi as number 1 and 2 respectively in terms of popularity on the social networking site 

Radwan Omar started young and took his business to new heights leveraging social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and others.

47-year-old Ram Pravesh Singh, the lawyer who represented Richa Bharti, an accused in writing a defamatory article on her FaceBook account against the holy Quran, was shot dead in Ranchi. 

Several netizens trolled Congress leader Alka Lamba for being insensitive while turning a sensitive issue into a joke. More than 2,000 people were watching her live on Facebook.

Facebook has launched unified payment system called Facebook Pay. In India, Facebook is aiming to launch WhatsApp Pay, a peer-to-peer payment system

On Thursday, Facebook-owned WhatsApp said Indian journalists and human rights activists were among those globally spied upon by unnamed entities using an Israeli sypware Pegasus

Anna Linda Eden, wife of Hibi Eden, Congress Lok Sabha member from Ernakulam, on Tuesday (October 22) apologised and said her post, which was withdrawn, meant no offence. She added that she meant that one should face all situations with a smile. BJP leader Tom Vadakkan said it would have been appropriate if she had openly apologised to both rape survivors and flood victims.

Facebook has introduced a new app from Instagram called 'Threads' that makes chatting with close friends seamless

When compared to other tourism departments in India, Kerala Tourism’s Facebook page retains its number one position by a huge margin. The state is followed by Gujarat (1,336,836 likes), Madhya Pradesh (1,198,165), Rajasthan (588,453), Uttarakhand (494,992) and Odisha (238,143)
 

Salman Khan has been threatened with dire consequences on a social media post. It was written on the Facebook wall of Student Organisation of Punjab University (Sopu).

The suspension of the apps by came after revelations of Cambridge Analytica, a British consultancy, retrieved the information of an estimated 87 million Facebook users without their permission

BJP legislator Vikram Singh Saini has called India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru an 'aiyaash' meaning philanderer  while sharing an old photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with other world leaders on Facebook
 

Reports further said that the plan to launch these hotlines had not been well-prepared by the Hong Kong Police

Facebook, in a counter to Mukesh Ambani, said India finds itself "locked out" of major global data-sharing initiatives aimed to clamp down on serious crime and terrorism and remarked that data is not like oil and should not be hoarded within nations