The Indian telecom regulator has proposed 20 questions for your views on two basic topics: should there be licensing of Internet services, and should there be non-discrimination of Internet access via telecom operators. Download the complicated, 118 page long paper here. This consultation has two possible implications: First, if there is licensing of Internet services,…
India’s Supreme Court court has struck down a law that made posting “offensive” comments on the internet a crime punishable by a jail term of up to three years. But, for the free speech campaigners, there is more work to do, writes technology writer Prasanto K Roy. Section 66A, inserted in 2009 into India’s Information…
The Supreme Court today ruled on a series of cases challenging the IT Act, including Section 66A (3 years in prison for offensive statements online), Section 79 and its rules (forcing intermediaries to take down online content) and Section 69 (blocking of online content). How they ruled: Section 66A The bench, consisting of Justices Chelameswar…
Section 66A of the Information Technology Act is unconstitutional in its entirety, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday striking down a “draconian” provision that had led to the arrests of many people for posting content deemed to be “allegedly objectionable” on the Internet.
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The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the Uttar Pradesh government to explain the arrest of a class 12 boy for allegedly posting an “objectionable” comment about ruling Samajwadi Party leader and Minister Azam Khan on Facebook.
A Bench led by Justice J. Chelameswar gave the State four weeks to respond.
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All the central ministries and departments will have to put in public domain the source code of software and applications developed by them, primarily for e-governance projects, to avoid duplication and cut costs. “The Government of India aims to make public the source code of various software applications/ components/ products as it may consider suitable…
Prof. Akhtarul Wasey is the Commissioner of Linguistic Minorities (CLM), Government of India. This office is a Constitutional authority and Prof. Wasey was appointed to it by the President of India recently. Before he was appointed to the office of CLM, he was the head of the Department of Islamic Studies and the Director of…
Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Canada next week, a Sikh rights group has filed a complaint with the country’s Attorney General seeking criminal proceedings against him for alleged offences during the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat. Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) has filed the 16-page complaint asking Canadian Attorney General and Minister of…
India is starting a big digital revolution. The fact that Kerala, which is trailing in many areas, is in the front row of the digital revolution gives hopes about the future of Malayalis. The important part of the revolution is the enormous effort to link two and a half lakh village panchayats in India through…
Jammu, April 08 (Scoop News)-The state government is set to roll out National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) to achieve the goal of ‘Digital J&K’. The information was given in review meeting chaired by the Secretary, Information Technology Department, Saurabh Bhagat here today. It was given out in the meeting that the programme would be rolled…