Blue whale News
Participants who played the Phylo game were not just remembering iconic species like the blue whale and sea otter, but things like phytoplankton, zooplankton and mycorrhizal fungi.
A college girl on Tuesday filed a complaint with the police about an unknown caller who allegedly tried to incite her into participating in 'Momo Game' challenge.
The Momo WhatsApp challenge has become a cause of concern for authorities in the Latin American region.
Japan has committed itself to not hunting whales for commercial purposes but critics say killing for research would eventually mean selling of the meat - a commercial process.
The Supreme Court on Monday disposed of petition against the Blue Whale Challenge after the central government argued that it was not possible to regulate the game.
With dangerous online games like Blue Whale claiming several innocent lives in the recent past, the Supreme Court has directed the Centre to constitute a panel of experts to block such life-threatening games.
The administration of the Government Girls Degree College in Pind Dadan Khan Jhelum, 300 kms from Lahore, expelled two intermediate girl students on Friday after detecting self- inflicted injuries on their arms.
If cyber experts are to be believed, a number of fictitious Blue Whale gaming apps and malware are still available on the internet which lure users to download them and in the process steal their personal information
A seventeen-year-old boy was found hanging from the ceiling fan at his residence in Haryana's Panchkula town.
A young boy in Madhya Pradesh's Raigarh district, who became frightened of the final task of Blue Whale game of committing suicide, revealed his distress in his answer-sheet.
"If anybody provides information on its curator/administrator, he will be given Rs 1 lakh reward and his name will be kept secret," he said.
The police also organized awareness meetings involving parents and school authorities, state Parliamentary Affairs Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary told the state assembly on Wednesday.
The principals and headmasters have been urged to convene parents-teachers meetings to sensitise the parents and launch an awareness campaign among the students in their educational institutions.
A 17-year-old girl, who was on Monday rescued by policemen and divers as she was about to finish the Blue Whale challenge in Rajasthan's Jodhpur, on Wednesday reportedly attempted to claim her life for the second time.
Gauhati Medical College Hospital Superintendent R Talukdar said the two teenagers, aged between 16 and 17 years, have been admitted to the psychiatry department of the hospital and were given counselling.
According to a college mate, Borha had invited some of this friends in Assam to play the Blue Whale game.
They found that teeth in ancient baleen whales, the ancestors of the Southern Right and Blue whale, were different to the present-day and were instead much sharper.
In addition, response of Centre and Delhi Police was also invited on petition seeking direction to Internet firms to immediately remove links of the online game.
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