Tag: Blue Whale
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End Blue Whale menace, SC tells Centre
The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday asked the Centre to put in more efforts in order to end the menace of Blue Whale game which has claimed the lives of many youngsters. In its order, the apex court asked the home ministry as well as the human resource development ministry to spread awareness about the …
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October 27, 2017 -
‘Blue Whale should wake up parents to online threats to children’
Excessive use of internet by children and their soaring engagement with the social media seem to have woken up parents, school administrations, government authorities and law-enforcement agencies among others to the need to protect and safeguard this vulnerable section of society. Such an awareness has arisen especially in the wake of the raging controversy over …
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October 19, 2017 -
Precept and myth
In an age when technology and associated games like Pokemon and the dreadful Blue Whale attract children, octogenarian KL Bhatia, a retired Ministry of External Affairs official, devotes his evenings to inculcating in them love for Indian, Greek and Roman mythology. Two of those handpicked by him are 13-year-old Kashish and her 15-year-old brother Aman …
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September 18, 2017 -
Need help, get help
Nowadays, with the notorious Blue Whale cases coming to light, one cannot help but wonder what goes on in the heads of these innocent teenagers, which makes them knowingly take part in such self-harm inducing activities. It’s incredibly sad to see such young lives taken away at such an early stage when the rest of …
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September 18, 2017 -
SC seeks Centre’s response on Blue Whale game ban
The Supreme Court on Friday sought the Centre’s response on a plea seeking a ban on the online Blue Whale game that has been blamed for a number of deaths of young people. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud sought the government’s response and asked the petitioner …
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September 15, 2017 -
Underground, unknown and dangerous
Despite demands for a ban on a game that is believed to have pushed a 14-year-old Mumbai boy to suicide, it may not be possible to bar the Blue Whale Challenge, an Internet expert said. The ban issue was recently raised in the Maharashtra assembly and in the Rajya Sabha by members who called for …
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September 6, 2017 -
‘Blue Whale’ claims first victim in Tamil Nadu
A 19-year-old college student Vignesh in Madurai is suspected to be the first victim in Tamil Nadu of the macabre online game Blue Whale, police said. According to the police, the second year B.Com was found hanging at his home by his father on Wednesday evening. A picture of blue whale was drawn on his …
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August 31, 2017 -
Blue Whale suicide attempt foiled in Bengal
An engineering student was stopped from killing himself in West Bengal after his college authorities alerted the CID about his involvement in the dangerous online game, the Blue Whale Challenge. A few days ago, the registrar of BB Institute of Technology contacted an officer of the agency about the suspicious behaviour of the student as …
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August 28, 2017 -
Blue Whale game claims first victim in UP
The fatal online Blue Whale game has claimed its first victim in Uttar Pradesh’s Hamirpur district, police said on Monday. Parth Singh, 13, was found hanging in his bedroom in Maudaha village on Sunday night. The police said the class sixth student had his father’s phone on his hand in which the game, that directs …
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August 28, 2017 -
Centre, Google get Delhi High Court notice on Blue Whale game
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notice to the central government, Facebook, Google and Yahoo on a plea seeking direction to the internet majors to take down the links of the Blue Whale game. The Blue Whale Challenge is reportedly a suicide game in which the player is given certain tasks to complete for …
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August 22, 2017 -
Blue Whale threat: Haryana tells schools to counsel students
The Haryana Children Protection Commission (HCPC) has issued an advisory to all private and government schools in the state to counsel students about the risk of ‘Blue Whale Challenge’ and other similar online games. The HCPC has asked schools to also keep a close tab on those students who were showing “abnormal” behaviour. The advisory …
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August 22, 2017 -
Blue Whale challenge: Goa Police issues advisory for parents
The suicides of two youngsters in Kerala and Maharashtra while playing the Blue Whale challenge, has forced the Goa Police to issue a formal advisory to parents on safeguarding their wards from playing the online game. The advisory released by the Crime Branch late on Thursday, asked parents to install parental control software in computers …
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August 18, 2017 -
HC raises questions on youngsters playing Blue Whale
The Delhi High Court on Thursday raised questions over youngsters committing suicide while playing the Blue Whale Challenge online game, asking how people are getting influenced by it. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar was hearing a plea seeking a direction to restrain companies — including Google, …
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August 17, 2017 -
‘Blue Whale’ type games totally unacceptable
Games like Blue Whale — that has been provoking youths to commit suicide — are “completely unacceptable”, Union Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Wednesday. Prasad said the government has already issued instructions to all tech platforms to check the spread of “The Blue Whale Challenge”. On July 30, a 14-year-old …
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August 16, 2017