Rush Hour: X booked for ‘defamatory’ Modi video, Iran letting Indian ships cross Hormuz and more

The Kerala police registered a case against X and a user on the social media platform for sharing an artificial intelligence-generated video about Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Election Commission. The police alleged that the video depicts Modi and the poll body in a “misleading and defamatory manner”.

It said that the allegedly defamatory content was brought to its notice through official channels, including the Election Commission. The Kerala Police is currently reporting to the Election Commission since the Model Code of Conduct is in force in the state ahead of the Assembly elections. Read on.

With Islamabad mediating peace talks between the United States and Iran, the Congress said that the “colossal failure” in India’s diplomacy, outreach and narrative management has made a “broken country” like Pakistan a “broker country”. The statement came a day after External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that India does not view itself as a “dalaal”, or broker, like Pakistan.

Jaishankar made the comments at an all-party meeting convened by the government on the West Asia conflict. Responding to Jaishankar’s comments, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said that for Pakistan to “even be…considered for a mediating role is a most damning indictment of both the substance and style of…Modi’s diplomacy”. Read on.

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