A person below the legal drinking age in Delhi (25 years) once found a simple workaround to enter bars in the city: they edited their Aadhaar PDF to add on a few years, got a colour printout, and laminated it. It was that simple.

India has formally notified the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules 2025 and activated the Data Protection Board of India (DPBI) as the enforcement authority under the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act 2023.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Thursday released the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules, 2025, aiming to regulate how personal data is handled.

The government has issued a notice confirming the final DPDP rules and the implementation timeline for the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, which was passed in 2023.

Order is emerging through compliance, consent frameworks, identity systems, first-party data, retail media power, and a regulator whose interpretations may matter more than the law

The Egypt Film Commission aims to increase foreign shoots in Egypt, in the wake of recent high-profile productions, including Guy Ritchie’s “Fountain of Youth,” shot at the Giza Pyramids, Neil Burger’s espionage thriller “Inheritance,” shot in Cairo, Jon M. Chu’s “Wicked: For Good,” and Mr Beast’s online video, “I Spent 100 Hours Inside the Pyramids.”

The constitution of the Data Protection Board takes effect immediately, and the consent manager framework will become operative after 12 months

India's Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) has played a transformational role in enabling universal access to services, bridging urban-rural gaps and strengthening the country's position as a global digital powerhouse, a senior government official said here on Sunday

Amid mounting cost pressures, and growing allure of micro-dramas, platforms are scaling back the number, duration, and budgets of their web-series