Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, who was arrested on Saturday (August 24) upon landing in France on his private jet, was accompanied by a mystery woman, as per reports.

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The founder and CEO of the messaging service Telegram, Pavel Durov was arrested Saturday night at an airport near Paris, he is currently in custody or allegations related to his messaging app's role in criminal activities. Watch in for more details!

Telegram CEO Durov arrested in France over multiple charges

The messaging app Telegram is being investigated by the Indian government after concerns were raised regarding the company indulging in criminal activities like gambling and extortion, Indian news website Moneycontrol claimed in a report.

Telegram gets probed by Indian govt for gambling and extortion, may face ban: Report

Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram, was arrested on Saturday evening while leaving his private jet at France’s Bourget airport. Watch in for more details!

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested in France

Telegram chief executive Pavel Durov was arrested by the French police at the Le Bourget airport near Paris for alleged offences related to his popular messaging app, the news agency AFP reported on Sunday (Aug 25) citing sources.

Telegram chief executive Pavel Durov arrested in France, faces possible indictment

Messaging services Telegram and WhatsApp briefly suffered a major outage in Russia on Wednesday, said the country's media regulator Roskomnadzor, which blamed a cyberattack.

Russia blames cyberattack over Telegram, WhatsApp outage

Telegram's founder and Chief Executive Officer Pavel Durov made a shocking revelation as he claimed he has more than "100 biological kids". Taking to the messaging application, the CEO shared about his biological kids and the plan ahead with his 5.

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The Indian government has given an ultimatum to social media companies The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has issued notices to X, YouTube and Telegram.

Social media companies at risk of losing 'safe harbor protection'

A post on a Russian channel on Telegram has ignited concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin's health. According to a report by the Express on Monday (August 28), the post by "Z-blogger" Pozdnyakov read, "God, don't you leave us.

Telegram post ignites concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin's health. Ukraine reacts

Somalia has banned a number of social media applications in light of rapidly spreading indecent content and propaganda, said the nation's communication minister in a statement released late on Sunday.

Somalia bans TikTok, Telegram to curb spread of 'constant horrific images and misinformation'

Telegram has become immensely popular because users have been led to believe it’s highly secure. But is it really as safe as we think? Watch our report.

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Iraq's telecom ministry said on Sunday (August 6) that it has blocked the Telegram messaging app over national security concerns, and to preserve the integrity of users' data, which it said the app had mishandled.

Iraq blocks Telegram messaging app over national security concerns

On Monday, several Indian media reported that India’s COVID-19 vaccine booking portal, CoWIN, was compromised, and sensitive personal information of thousands of users was leaked on the Telegram social messaging app.

Explained: CoWIN data leak, and how bots stoke privacy tensions

The Indian government refuted media reports of a major data breach in the Covid vaccination portal CoWIN. Issuing a statement, the Union Health Ministry said, "These reports allege a breach of data from the Co-WIN portal of the Union Health Ministry, which is the repository of all data of beneficiaries who have been vaccinated against Covid.

CoWIN leak: Indian govt refutes Covid vaccine portal data breach reports, orders probe

Brazil lifted the suspension of the encrypted messaging app Telegram on Saturday after Flávio Lucas, a judge from Brazil's Federal Regional Court of the Second Region, partially revised a ruling which suspended the social media application over its non-compliance in sharing information about extremist and neo-Nazi groups using the platform.

Brazil lifts suspension of Telegram, imposes fine over noncompliance of order

With Facebook and Instagram being banned, Russians are increasingly turning to Telegram messaging app for mass messaging in a way similar to social media. According to AFP, Telegram app has been downloaded over 150 million times since the beginning of the year, with the official figure of half a billion active users dating back to January last year.

Telegram emerges as frontrunner amid Russia’s crackdown on Facebook, Instagram

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Friday ordered the suspension of messaging app Telegram over its hosting of misinformation and fabricated news content.

Brazilian supreme court bans messaging app Telegram ahead of presidential elections

Why Telegram messaging app isn’t as secure as you think

Telegram is a popular cross-platform, cloud-based instant messaging service that also provides end-to-end encrypted video calling, sharing and some other features.

Is Telegram safe to use? Here's what's wrong with messaging service. It isn't as secure as you think it is

Germany said that the Telegram app is becoming a 'medium for Radicalisation' with private abuse happening in Telegram's public rooms.

Germany: Telegram app is becoming a 'medium for Radicalisation'

A Russian court imposed a $28,085 fine on Alphabet Inc.'s Google for failing to delete content which it defined as illegal. The court in Moscow also fined Russia's messaging service Telegram 49,440 Euros.

Russian court fines Google, Telegram

When Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp got hit by a global outage, the competitive social media platforms buckled up and welcomed all the new and revived users. In this technologically advanced world, competition is one of the biggest motivators for a company to do better.

Telegram gains 70 million new users as Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram crash

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