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Govt orders blocking of more than 250 websites

Stepping up its drive against "erring" portals, government has ordered blocking of more than 250 websites in which morphed images and videos were uploaded to incite Muslims leading to exodus of people belonging to the northeast from Karnataka and some other states.

Home ministry officials said more than 130 websites havebeen blocked till now while the rest will be blocked shortly.

"We are planning to block some more sites," anofficial said.

Government is also contemplating to take up the CERT-In(Computer Emergency Response Team-India) findings at the international forum asit has turned out to be the biggest instance of cyber warfare on India inrecent times.

A Pakistan-based hardline group is suspected to have beeninvolved in doctoring images and spreading them across social networking siteslike Facebook, Twitter and You Tube to incite Muslims and create scare amongpeople of northeastern region living across India.

Most of the online content started getting posted from July13 and fake profiles were created for spreading morphed pictures, according toa Home Ministry report prepared in the wake of mass exodus of people belongingto the north east from Bangalore, Pune, Chennai and Mumbai following rumoursabout possible attack on them.

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Northeast exodus takes Chennai by surprise

The sudden exodus of panic-stricken North East people from Tamil Nadu has come as a surprise to the state which has a long standing reputation of being a haven of peace and home to non-natives.

PTI
Published Aug 18, 2012, 7:21 AM IST
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The number of people fleeing the state in the backdrop ofexodus in cities like Bangalore and Pune following rumours about attacks onthem has now come down considerably.But natives and officials are clueless as to how the statehas been perceived to be unsafe, that too when there had been no reports of anyattack on the North East community.Though Chennai has been the preferred destination forworkers and students from North East, of late their presence is spreading toother…

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