Some of those most guilty of violence and discrimination against gays, lesbians and transgender people in Asia are their families, which must instead play a key role in improving LGBTI rights, activists from the region said. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people (LGBTI) in Asia face the threat of violence and widespread discrimination –…
Amnesty International has pulled up India, saying impunity is widespread for human rights abuses by state and non-state actors in the country. In its annual report, to be released on Wednesday, the global human rights watchdog has said state authorities often failed to prevent and at times committed crimes against children, women, dalits and adivasi…
As Mufti Mohammad Sayeed begins his second innings as chief minister, human rights will be the single biggest issue that will test the durability of People’s Democratic Party–BJP alliance in the restive Jammu and Kashmir. This because the PDP has built a political fortune by championing the rights cause in the Kashmir valley. In the hay days, PDP chief…
The United States Department of State on Monday named its first-ever special envoy to advocate globally for the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. Randy Berry, an openly gay senior diplomat, has served as U.S. Consul General in Amsterdam since 2012. His earlier foreign service postings included Nepal, Bangladesh, Egypt, Uganda,…
A digital pen for transcribing data on the front page of answer sheets can minimise human error and speed up the process of compiling mark sheets, the makers claim. The device set – a digital pen along with a tablet – called ‘Orion LICR’ has been developed by Orion India Systems Pvt Ltd, a wholly…
President Pranab Mukherjee said today that the government was committed to deeper penetration of electronic media in remote and distant areas. In his address to the joint sitting of Parliament at the start of the Budget Session, he said auctions will be conducted for 135 vacant channels in 69 existing cities of FM Phase-II as part of…
President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said Digital India programme would prepare the country for technology-based transformation. “My government has envisioned an ambitious umbrella programme — Digital India– to prepare the country for technology-based transformation and citizen-centric transparent governance with service orientation,” he said, addressing a joint session of both the houses of parliament on the…
A recent report from the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team says that Assam stands at second place in the country in terms of registered cyber crime cases. Assam is a close second with 450% increase, i.e. from 23 cases in 2012-13 to 154 in 2013-14. Uttarakhand tops the list with 475% increase of cyber crime…
The FBI is aware of 60 different cyber threats groups linked to nation-states, a senior bureau official said on Tuesday. Joseph Demarest, head of the FBI’s cyber crime division, also said the bureau learned within a month of Sony Pictures (6758.T) first report of a large-scale cyber attack that North Korea was behind it. Read…
The FBI is aware of 60 different cyber threats groups linked to nation-states, a senior bureau official said on Tuesday, according to Reuters. Joseph Demarest, head of the FBI’s cyber crime division, also said the bureau learned within a month of Sony Pictures first report of a large-scale cyber attack that North Korea was behind…