India's IT minister slams Twitter for not complying with new rules

India's Information and Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday lashed out at social media giant Twitter and said it had deliberately defied and failed to comply with new intermediary guidelines. The new IT rules are aimed at regulating content on social media firms, making them more accountable to legal requests for swift removal of posts and sharing details on the originators of messages. As reports of fighting between Afghan security forces and the Taliban continue in at least 80 districts across Afghanistan, the head of the High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah said the U.S. troop withdrawal from the country paved the way for the insurgent group to increase the level of violence. Pakistan's Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin has said that it is not possible for the country to get out of the IMF, the International Monetary Fund programme at this time when the economy is reviving, ruling out any disagreement. In a testimony before the Senate Standing Committee on Finance on Wednesday, Tarin said he however did not agree to the IMF condition of increasing personal income tax to collect additional Rs 150 billion that would burden the taxpayers.