India has emerged as a digitally-connected nation but experts suggest the country still lacks pragmatic Internet laws. According to a report by Internet and Mobile Association of India, our country has approximately 400 million Internet users. Given the fact that we now prevail in the digital age, the government needs to work towards devising an…
Two Nigerians, Salestine Baneme, 32, and Lona Thomas, 32, have been arrested in the Indian city of Ahmedabad by officials. Both happen to be residents of Malavianagar of New Delhi and were arrested for blackmailing two women registered on a matrimonial website to pay them a huge sum of money. The accused had threatened the women that they would morph their pictures…
A uniform civil code that keeps in mind women’s rights, a definition of a ‘child’ that has a single age limit and the removal of contradictory provisions of the Indian Penal Code that deal with sexual assault were some of the suggestions that emerged from a consultation held by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).…
Actress Ileana D’Cruz says true freedom will come when everyone will be “completely free” to express whatever they want to, without people taking offence over it. Asked what does freedom mean to her, Ileana said: “I would consider I am completely free when I get to say what I want to say without people taking…
HYDERABAD: Vijay Mogli was dragged out of the hostel of Hyderabad Public School on wintry nights, stripped nude, made to do frog jumps or imitate Mehmood’s and Johnny Lever’s fake Tamizh accents. Sometimes he resisted – when pencils, erasers and chalk pieces were pushed up his posterior – only to be footballed and kicked. Amidst…
DEHRADUN: An RTI activist’s tweet has done for 10,000 residents of Dudhali village, near Dehradun, what numerous complaints could not. A tweet on the BSNL exchange shutting down in the absence of a power back-up reached Union communication minister Manoj Sinha, who ensured prompt action and the exchange coming back to life.
Kerala Assembly speaker T P Sreeramakrishnan today came down heavily on lawyers stating that they are not the owners of the court and nobody has the right to deny the people their Right to Information. Speaking at the “Media Awards-2015” function at the Press Club here, he referred to the ongoing stand-off between lawyers and…
Making Wifi facility available to five villages in Nagpur has become a cause for concern for the state government, with each user found to be consuming average 15GB per month. So much so, the state is now mulling introducing some sort of financial model to make Wifi self-sustainable for these villages. With plans afoot to…
New York, August 11, 2016 – Indian authorities should shelve a criminal complaint against the weekly Indian magazine Outlook, its leadership, and freelance journalist Neha Dixit, and ensure the safety of the journalist and Outlook‘s staff, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
The Bombay High court recently passed a John Doe order laying down a set of safeguards to minimise over-blocking. The Delhi High Court on the other hand ordered blocking of 73 websites for showing “substantial” pirated content. This blog post traces the history of John Doe orders in India, their impact on free speech and…