Plastic Aadhaar cards will be issued at the e-governance service centres functioning at taluk offices in the district. Voters who want to get the plastic card can visit these centres from 9.45 a.m. to 5.45 p.m. during working days. Collector S. Palanisamy inaugurated the issue of plastic Aadhaar cards to voters at the Taluk Office…
You are sitting in your cubicle busy working on a client proposal that you need to discuss with your boss in the evening. A cellphone ring interrupts your train of thought. The person in the next cubicle answers the phone in a loud voice forgetting that nearly everything he says can be heard from 10…
Irked after a lawyer attached copies of the personal diary of an 11-year-old in the documents submitted in a custody dispute case, the Delhi High Court has issued directions to protect the privacy of children in custody and matrimonial disputes. The court of Justice S Muralidhar, in its order issued on Thursday, noted that there…
Google must respect the European Union’s ‘right to be forgotten’ court ruling on all its sites, not just those it says target EU countries, the French data protection authority has ruled, giving the company 15 days to comply. The French National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL) ordered Google to remove the affected search results…
The Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT), a unit under the department of telecommunications (DoT), has begun technical and operational testing of its servers, linked to the servers of mobile operators. Once in operation, it would enable security agencies to tap phones, intercept and monitor calls without keeping telcos in the loop. However, the requisite…
Berlin: A small German town that became a byword for xenophobia when neo-Nazis rallied against a planned asylum centre and the building was torched two months ago accepted its first refugees this week. With shy smiles, two families from Afghanistan and one from India attended a media conference Thursday in the nearby town of Naumburg…
Religious leaders have a pivotal role to play in times of turmoil, during which they can provide a values-based glue to hold communities together and provide common ground for peace-making and problem solving, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday at a conference in Kazakhstan. You can do so by fostering dialogue; by using…
The commission also sought a compliance report with a proof of payment within six weeks from the city government. A 15-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by an employee of the city government’s LNJP Hospital on October 2, 2013. According to NHRC, the city government, in response to the commission’s show cause notice, had said “the…
The ethnic cleansing of minority Muslim community in the northern west province of Buddhist Myanmar is going on for the last four years. The world is watching it all silently. Beneath the ‘civilized’ veneer we find the embedded monster that edits responses to suit nationality, ethnicity, religion, language, race and tribe. Even after the world…
Human rights organisation Amnesty International India has sent a submission to the joint parliamentary committee on land bill, flagging its concerns about lack of consent, social impact assessment and consultation under the amended legislation. In its seven-page submission, the organisation said that, “if passed into law in its current form, the Bill will undermine the…