New Delhi, July 6 -- The ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) has extended the timeline for WhatsApp to furnish a detailed explained of its impending "username" feature, which the government thinks may materially increase the incidence of online fraud, phishing, digital arrests and scams and impersonation attacks, by enabling bad actors to solicit and message victims. WhatsApp now has time till July 9 to give the aforementioned explanation. Earlier, MeitY had given WhatsApp three days, from July 1, to submit the requested details. As previously reported by HT, in a meeting between MeitY officials and WhatsApp on July 2, the messaging platform had asked for more time citing the intervening weekend as the reason for the ...