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Daily Archives: August 5, 2016

Google Outpaces Facebook on Getting India Connected to Internet

When it comes to connecting India’s population to the internet, Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai is having better luck than his Facebook Inc. counterpart, Mark Zuckerberg. Google began offering free Wi-Fi at about two dozen train stations in the country earlier this year, and now has 2 million people using the service each month, Pichai…

August 5, 201633 CommentsDaily NewsBy wp-admin

Only 25% Indian teenagers happy with mobile service providers

New Delhi: Only a quarter of teenagers in India feel communications service providers understand their lifestyle and offer services to match it while 36 per cent said they were experiencing poor customer service for over a year, a survey revealed on Tuesday. Announcing the results of a global study into the digital behaviour and expectations…

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2 held for posting insulting messages on social media

SURAT: A message hurting religious sentiments of minority community shared over social media around a month ago led to tension at a college in Athwalines on Wednesday. Two youth were arrested later in the day for posting the message on the chat group.

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Ignorance of law cited as cause for rights violations

Lack of awareness was the main reason for human rights violations in India, State Secretary of People’s Union for Civil Liberties S. Balamurugan told a gathering of students at Sathyamangalam recently. Speaking at a programme organised at Bannari Amman Institute of Technology by Sudar, a non-governmental organisation, under the aegis of NSS, Mr. Balamurugan said…

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Youngsters are more vulnerable to cyber crime: Norton study

Teenagers in India are at a greater risk of encountering threats on their mobile devices, says a study. 54 percent of the respondents say that young adults are more likely to commit mobile-related crime like revenge porn. The study by Norton by Symantec that consisted of 1,005 Indian smartphone and tablet users aged 16 years…

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We heard that the Supreme Court Women Lawyers’ Association Wants Porn to Earn Revenue for the Government but We Were Wondering: Who Are They?

The Supreme Court Women Lawyers’ Association (SCWLA) was in the news last year when it moved the Supreme Court to be made a party in a controversial PIL filed by lawyer Kamlesh Vaswani calling for a ban on porn. This week the SCWLA kicked up a storm when in an affidavit filed in connection with…

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Stalker sets schoolgirl on fire in deadly attack in southern India

CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The death of a schoolgirl three days after she was set on fire by a stalker in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has sparked outrage from activists who said the law was failing victims of unwanted advances from men.

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Hundreds of graphic gang-rape videos are being sold daily in shops in northern India

MUMBAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — Graphic mobile phone clips of gang rapes are being sold in shops in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, as a spate of rapes in one of the country’s most violent states has sparked anger and calls for the chief minister to step down.

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Free speech means right to dissent

The right to dissent is a part and parcel of the right to freedom of speech and expression. What students of the Pondicherry Central University (PCU) may publish is definitely unpalatable to the BJP and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) which is the student wing of the BJP and has the RSS as its…

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