BJP President Amit Shah said on Sunday nationalism was being questioned in the name of freedom of expression and “propaganda” against nationalism could not be considered as freedom of speech. “It has become a fashion for some people nowadays to question nationalism. This is being done in different places and new theories are being planted.…
A senior Indian minister appeared Sunday to support police in a row over free speech that saw Amnesty slapped with sedition charges for an event about the disputed Kashmir region. Police in the southern city of Bangalore filed the initial charges last week following complaints that slogans on independence for the troubled region had been…
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu has the highest number of broadband internet subscribers in the country. As on March 31 this year, of the total 149.75 million broadband users in the country, 14.89 million were in Tamil Nadu, figures released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) show.
Kolhapur: For the last two months, Ketan Sawant, a software engineer from Pune, has been struggling to file an online RTI application for his Rajopadhyenagar-based parents. The reason for this being that the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) lacks the very facility.Sawant has been trying to file a Right to Information (RTI) application questioning the absence…
Since 2005, the Right to Information (RTI) Act has built an impressive trajectory. In an era of global youth rebellion, it seems to be opening up new space for India’s young to demand people’s right to know. Taking a cue from this new trend of students diggin up dirt, with the help of RTI, Rohit…