Twitter locks IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad's account

Amid the tussle between Twitter and the union government over the new IT rules, Union Electronics and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad was denied access to his Twitter account for almost an hour over alleged violation of the US' Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Although, he was subsequently allowed to access the account, the minister called the action by the US-headquartered Twitter as "a gross violation of the IT guidelines". He shared a post on India-made micro-blogging platform Koo.