Behind the Struggle Against Erosion of Free Speech is a Fight Over the Rule of Law: A few weeks ago, finance minister Arun Jaitley was at an LSE event where he was asked about last month’s Ramjas College incident. In response, Jaitley said that freedom of expression is fine but stops at “anti-national” discourse. He also condemned…
Religion, Women, Drugs, Decency, public order, Sovereignty and Integrity, all form the basis for CBFC’s decision with respect to Udta Punjab, Had Anhad and Lipstick under the Burkah films. The disputes and controversies around the said films reflect the subjectivity inherent in CBFC’s assessment and judgment. The fact that the Courts reversed all excisions made…
India’s drive for a cashless economy puts millions at risk of cybercrime: When the Indian government recently banned two high-value currency notes, it led to all sorts of chaos. It led to huge queues to exchange money at banks and ATMs. And this in a country where more than half of its citizens do not…
Google India, IT Ministry launch initiatives for Narendra Modi’s ‘New India’: NEW DELHI: In keeping with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of a ‘New India’, Google India and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) have announced a set of initiatives aimed at empowering citizens and creating abundant opportunities for all. Read More
Now a Miss India forced Assam govt to act on a child abuse case it has been ignoring: A day after Miss India 2016 Priyadarshini Chatterjee wrote to the Assam chief minister about an alleged child abuse involving a professor of Guwahati’s Assam Agricultural University, Sarbananda Sonowal flung to action and directed the police to…
Aadhaar is a legal right, but the government can suspend a citizen’s number without prior notice: Aadhaar, the biometrics-based unique identity number all Indian residents are entitled to, is being made mandatory for access to a wide range of government services. On Wednesday, the government proposed to make it mandatory for income tax filings from…
Zero policing of child porn in India: Even as the Supreme Court on Wednesday constituted a committee of representatives to explore technical solutions and block videos of rape and child pornography from being circulated on social media, a married woman from East Champaran district of Bihar filed a complaint against five men of her village…
Delhi: Cyber crooks stealing, morphing social media photos to extort victims: A class-12 student of South Delhi was shocked to find her pornographic video online, the link of which was shared by an anonymous user on chat demanding money to delete it. Preliminary investigation revealed that her picture was copied from a social media site…
Police complaint against Bengali poet for hurting ‘Hindu beliefs’: Kolkata, March 21 (IANS) A police complaint has been lodged against eminent Bengali poet Srijato Bandyopadhay for posting a 12-line poem on social media that allegedly hurts “Hindu religious beliefs”. Expressing shock over the complaint, the poet said it only showed India is in the “grip…
Hyderabad: Cyber Crime Cell arrests two for harassing woman: Hyderabad (Telengana) [India], Mar 21 (ANI): The cyber crime cell in Cyberabad, Hyderabad, arrested two for sending abusive messages and outraging the modesty of the complainant. The accused have been identified as 35 year-old Alapati Shivaiah , Managing Director of Hyma consultancy and another woman aged…