Remember the Oisha MP Tathagata Satpathy? He was the same person who won the internet some time ago when he took part in an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit.com. He showed us then that he was a pretty cool guy who knew his Pink Floyd references. He also talked about the legal status of…
20 Killed in Andhra Encounter: Did the Police Use Too Much Force? Police in Andhra Pradesh shot dead 20 people who they say are smugglers, but the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has now sent them a notice which says the incident involved a serious violation of human rights and self defence can’t be justified.…
India’s top security and intelligence agencies consistently refuse to give out any information about the Right to Information requests they receive, and those that do, reject the bulk of queries they receive, new data shows. Twenty-five of India’s top security agencies are exempt from most of the requirements of the RTI Act, but are required…
Days after it struck down the much-abused Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, the Supreme Court Tuesday sought the government’s stand on de-criminalising defamation on the ground that the penal provisions unreasonably constrict the freedom of speech. “Defamation is an offence under the Indian Penal Code, but we need to delve on whether it…