A top global human rights group has criticised the Indian government for its treatment of minorities, lack of protection for women’s and children’s rights, restrictions on free speech and insufficient support extended for human rights via New Delhi’s foreign policy engagements. In its 25th annual World Report on human rights, New York-headquartered Human Rights Watch…
A global human rights body has voiced concern that vaguely worded laws in India that criminalise free speech continue to be misused as it asked the new government to fulfill its campaign promises of introducing laws to promote women’s rights, end discrimination and punish uniformed personnel for serious rights abuses.
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Facebook reportedly has more than 1.4 billion users. Somewhere in this large crowd, there are many random users — those nameless, faceless identities that hide behind a photograph of some popular actress. A sensible person would decline friend requests from such identities. But there are the gullible few, or let’s call them the desperate ones,…
Viewability was a dominant concern for all advertisers in 2014. With the rise in ad tech, this movement is expected to continue in 2015, with attention turned towards ad blocker software. A Google study raised the question about how effective display advertising on the digital platform actually is. In a report titled “5 Factors of…
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to launch city CCTV surveillance system in capital on Feb 5. A meeting to this effect was held at the Commissionerate Police headquarters where senior police and concerned CCTV company officials were present. Official sources said that in the first phase a total of 28 CCTV cameras have been installed…
Here are some sordid scenarios. Your ex-girlfriend can see every time you swipe right while using Tinder. Your former husband is secretly listening to and recording your late-night Skype sessions with your new boyfriend. Some random slippery-dick is jacking off to the naked photos in your private photo library. For millions of people, it’s not…
With the ‘Make in India’ campaign catching on fast, R&D and innovation have caught on. With this an awareness to protect their Intellectual Property (IP) and viewing it as a source of income and increased brand-value has gained ground. This has given rise to increased focus on IP surveillance and protection knowledge.
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District Collector S.Suresh Kumar inaugurated the e-governance system in 17 cooperative societies in the district on Friday. The Collector said that all the 168 Primary Agricultural Cooperative Credit Societies and 6 Primary Agricultural Cooperative Banks have established Public Service Centres to facilitate issuance of chitta, payment of electricity bills, advance booking for bus and train…
The recently-launched ‘Aaple Sarkar’, which gives citizens online access to Mantralaya’s departments, is just one of many e-governance initiatives designed to ease the life of the common man- or so says the government. These are early days for e-governance in India, and there are many things to get right or to mess up. dna turns a critical…
Tonc successfully implement e-governance, the country must think about ‘mobiles first’ and give importance to mobile governance, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday. Addressing the 18th National Conference on e-Governance through Twitter, Mr Modi said: “I urge you to explore ways to provide as many services as possible through mobiles. Let us bring the…