SMS limit increased from 5 to 20 per day with immediate effect

New Delhi: The government today increased the SMS limit per day from five to 20 with immediate effect.Mobile users were restricted to sending only 5 SMS-es per day from last Saturday to check spread of rumours, which fuelled panic among people from the North-East."We have banned bulk SMS-es and MMS-es for 15 days," Union Home Secretary RK Singh had said last week.According to the government, since the clashes in Assam, misleading information and hate messages were being spread through SMS-es and MMS-es that led to panic among the people from the North-East. Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter were also reportedly used to circulate morphed images.Along with the restrictions on SMSes and MMS-es, hundreds of web pages have been banned by the government since last wee