TikTok vanishes from Google Play Store after Madras HC ban, govt order

Users who had the app will continue to be able to use it

Technology News: Google has expelled TikTok from its Play Store, a few clients announced Tuesday night, yet the prominent short video application was accessible on Apple’s App Store. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology had requested that Google and Apple bring down TikTok after the Madras High Court restricted the application on April 3 for “explicit and wrong substance”.

Google, in an email reaction to Business Standard, said it doesn’t remark on individual applications yet holds fast to neighborhood laws. Clients who had the application will keep on having the capacity to utilize it. The High Court, prior on Tuesday, would not evacuate its boycott and named senior backer Arvind Datar as a free guidance to inspect TikTok’s suggestions.

In an email proclamation, TikTok had stated, “We welcome the choice of the Madras High Court to delegate Arvind Datar as Amicus Curae (free advice) to the court. We have confidence in the Indian legal framework and we are hopeful around a result that would be generally welcomed by more than 120 million month to month dynamic clients in India, who keep utilizing TikTok to grandstand their innovativeness and catch minutes that issue in their regular day to day existences.”

S Muthukumar had recorded an open intrigue suit for TikTok to restricted refering to the utilization of unseemly substance being posted and shared on the application by minors. Android, the Google claimed working framework, represents 70-80 percent piece of the overall industry in India, and Apple’s iOS accounts makes significant progress behind it. TikTok was focused at individuals who claim lower-end Android advanced mobile phones. A look for TikTok on Google Play Store Tuesday night demonstrated different applications comparative in name or logo.

Madras HC asks govt to ban video app TikTok, says it encourages pornography

The Madras High Court, which has been hearing a public interest litigation against the app, on Wednesday said children who were using TikTok were vulnerable to exposure to sexual predators.

Technology News: The Madras High Court on Wednesday asked the federal government to ban Chinese video app TikTok, saying it was “encouraging pornography”. Created by Beijing Bytedance Technology Co, TikTok allows users to create and share short videos with special effects. It has become hugely popular in rural India, home to most of the country’s 1.3 billion people.

Jokes, clips and footage related to India’s thriving movie industry dominate the platform, along with memes and videos in which youngsters, some scantily clad, lip-sync and dance to popular music. Speaking to Reuters in February, the IT minister of Tamil Nadu described some of its more suggestive dance content as “unbearable”, while a Hindu nationalist group close to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has called for the app to be banned.

Also in February, the BJP’s chief of information technology, Amit Malviya, said the party was tracking TikTok conversations and called it “a brilliant medium for creative expression”. The Madras High Court, which has been hearing a public interest litigation against the Tiktok app, on Wednesday said children who were using TikTok were vulnerable to exposure to sexual predators.

“Inappropriate” content was TikTok’s “dangerous aspect”, the court said in an order seen by Reuters, adding that “there is a possibility of the children contacting strangers directly”. A TikTok spokesman told Reuters the company was committed to abiding by local laws and was awaiting a copy of the court’s order, following which it would take appropriate action..

Pictures of living persons can't be used on banners, hoardings: Madras HC

The judge further directed that the photos of persons, who are sponsoring the pictures, shall also not be depicted

The Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the Tamil Nadu chief secretary to ensure that the provisions of a legislation on prevention of disfigurement are complied with to check unnecessary drawings on walls and ensure a clean atmosphere in all wards of the state.

Justice S Vaidyanathan was disposing of a plea by B Thirulochana Kumari of Arumbakkam here seeking a direction to the Chennai Corporation Commissioner to remove a party board, banner and flag put up in front of her house.(economy news)

The judge recorded the submissions of the counsel for the corporation, including the commissioner, and the inspector of police of Arumbakkam station, that all the banners and party flags, if any, not removed, would be removed forthwith.

They will ensure that no such act take place in future in residences of people in the city, the judge said.

"If any banner or party flag post are erected, it should be removed forthwith. Whoever objects to such removal of party flag/banner, etc., the name and address of such person shall be furnished to the police, so that the police shall register a case against such person," the judge said.

The petitioner submitted in April, that a person named Mathi erected a party flag in front of her property and when this was objected to, she was threatened with dire consequences.....Read More

Boycott of Coke, Pepsi in Tamil Nadu is good news for this Indian cola

Bovonto's makers have been in the beverage business before India's independence

#LATEST| The boycott of products from US-based beverage companies Coca-Cola and Pepsi in Tamil Nadu could be good news for one Indian beverage manufacturer. Made in Tamil Nadu and sold in stores in rural and urban areas of the state, this drink, called ‘Bovonto’, could get a major boost if the boycott turns out to be successful. Reports from the state suggest that many retailers are willingly obliging the traders’ bodies which have called for a ban on the sale of products manufactured by Coca-Cola and Pepsi.

Bovonto is one of the several drinks manufactured by Kali Aerated Water Works Private Limited. This family-run business, established in 1916, is now being managed by the third and fourth generations of its founder PVSK Palani Appa Nadar, who hails from the same business community as Congress leader P Chidambaram.

While the ban on Nestle’s Maggi brand of noodles did help push Patanjali’s products aggressively in supermarkets, the scenario is different in the case of Bovonto. The makers of Bovonto have been a business family before independence and have conducted their business with the kind of modest ambition that is associated with industrialists from some southern states. Although a household name in Tamil Nadu, it is little known outside the state.

The company’s profit in 2015-16 was a little above two crore rupees on the back of revenues of Rs 160 crore. This is almost 10 times its revenues in 2013-14. Infact, the family-run beverage business was corporatised quite late with the incorporation of Kali Sparkling Water Private Limited in 2010. Another one called Kali Palaniunna Beverage Private Limited was incorporated in 2012. These two, along with Kali Aerated Water Works Private Limited, are involved in the production, marketing and sales of eight kinds of beverages that include among other things a rose water scented carbonated drink called Kalimark Panner and a variety of ginger beer also marketed under the Kalimark brand. But unarguably, the star of the stable and the main revenue driver is Bovonto.

  

The Boycott of Coke and Pepsi in Tamil Nadu could definitely be a great opportunity for the home-grown company to expand beyond its comfort zone which is confined to the state at the moment. Post-corporatisation, the company’s revenues have jumped tenfold but profits haven’t ballooned as much. That is where the boycott, if successful, could help the company desist the sheer dominance of Coke and Pepsi which control 80 per cent of the soft drinks market in India. | READ FULL STORY |