Yahoo Mail is working, but Yahoo News operation shut down in India due to change in rules?

Key Take aways in this Article.

• Yahoo mail is working in India.
• Yahoo news section is shut down from August 26, 2021.
• Verizon Media took this decision due to changes in rules in India? Limiting foreign money of more than 26% in digital news media outlets is the reason behind it?

Yahoo has been an important part of the digital world. Millions of users in India use Yahoo for the last decade or so. It is the most trustable mail and news product that got recognition as a trusted brand in India. 

Like Gmail/ Google, people in India also give weightage to the Yahoo news column and all. So in the new decision, yahoo has temporarily stopped the news column page, which is the main theme page of Yahoo in India. 

American web services provider Yahoo shut down the publication of content operations in India. However, Yahoo accounts, e-mail, and search activities is working in India.

In the yahoo (FAQ) section on the Yahoo website, the company has chosen to stop publishing all content in India, shutting down Yahoo’s content operations across the country. 

The section which Yahoo stops in India are as follow:

Yahoo News, Yahoo Cricket, Yahoo Finance, Entertainment, and MAKERS India.

It seems like Yahoo is not OK with the new rules set by India for digital media companies. As a result, it has forced yahoo to stop its operation in India.

According to sources from the Yahoo desk, news are coming like “We did not come to this decision lightly,” Yahoo said, adding that the company’s operations in India affected by the new changes to the country’s regulatory laws “that now restrict the foreign ownership of media companies that manage and publish digital content in India.”

It will be interesting to see when these things get short, and we can see yahoo like before August 26 August 2021, in India.