After challenging the validity of the criminal defamation law, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has now challenged before the Supreme Court various provisions of the Indian Penal Code dealing with offences of ‘hate speech’, saying they were violative of the fundamental right to freedom of speech. According to the law, hate speech is any speech, gesture…
Do you spend your evenings sitting in the kitchen, counting how long it takes to fill a bucket of water from your cold tap, then sending angry emails to your water supplier when it’s not filling as fast as Simon’s identical bucket is three doors down on the same street? Probably not. That would be…
The use of social media in rural India has grown 100 per cent in the past year with 25 million people using the Internet to access Twitter and Facebook, according to a report. “Accessing social media is one of the key reasons for people to access the Internet. In fact, for many people accessing the…
To enable hassle-free access to documents such as school certificates for renewing passports or download school textbooks free of cost, the Modi government is all set to launch a one-stop shop shortly. Starting 1 July, the government will launch many projects under Modi’s $18 billion ‘Digital India’ initiative, one of them being ‘eBasta’. “eBasta is…
In the film Elysium, the ultra-rich have left an apocalyptic Earth ravaged by global warming and overpopulation. Their utopian colony orbits high above Earth which festers below. Science fiction, but Silicon Valley techno-utopians also dream of rising above the planet’s problems. The Seasteading Institute, for example, seeks to create floating cities far enough from land…
“We are adding five million new users a month and that should take the user base to 500 million by 2018-19,” says Rajan Anandan, Managing Director, Google India. The way in which India’s internet economy is burgeoning is nothing short of extraordinary. For all the ills and bottlenecks ailing the country today, internet is the…
BangaloreOne (B1) centres across the City are having a tough time catering to people, what with too many services they have to provide. And people have started complaining about inefficient service and delays. Ayesha B, a resident of HBR Layout, said: “BBMP ward officers asked me to apply for an Aadhaar card at the BangaloreOne centre…
In an area where terrains and forests make delivery of government schemes a big challenge, an e-governance concept of Common Service Centre (CSC), being implemented in Balrampur district in North Chhattisgarh, has not just improved services but also generated village level entrepreneurs (VLE). The administration has named the e-governance project ‘Biometricpur’ as it is implementing…
As the government firms up its policy on ensuring net neutrality, experts urge that disallowing telecom operators from owning any proprietary content could become a direct way to ensure that no specific content is pushed or promoted over others. At the very least, the principles of net neutrality — that guarantees consumers equal and non-discriminatory…
There were several controversies going on in the past over the issue of Net Neutrality in India. Also, the Government of India was expected to make a formal statement about its stand on net neutrality last month. Well, now a new report by The Times of India states that the government may most likely go…