Facebook has made more than its fair share of mistakes in attempting to introduce its Free Basics platform in India, as a top official admitted to Scroll in December. Now things have got worse. In a ...

New Delhi: Social networking giant Facebook Inc. on Thursday pulled the plug on its controversy-ridden Free Basics programme in India, days after the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) ...

In a sort of anti-climax, Facebook India has announced the scrapping of the controversial Free Basics project in the country in wake of the decision by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) ...

When Mark Zuckerberg announced to Indian newspaper reporters, in the US for prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Silicon Valley, that he wanted to spread the internet, the whole internet, many ...

Facebook’s free internet service is designed to offer connectivity to disadvantaged countries but a new study is drawing attention to potential Free Basics flaws. Like India claimed when it banned the ...

Close to 50 faculty members of the Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institute of Science on Tuesday released a statement highlighting flaws in Facebook's controversial Free Basics programme.