Jaipur: Fifteen-year-old Babli (name changed), a resident of a tribal area in southern Rajasthan’s Dungarpur district, was being raped by her father for the past two years. The ignorant tribal girl would have kept bearing it all in silence, but for a policeman who visited her school and counselled students on sexual abuse. Babli gained…
When most people think or speak about internet freedom, they are often concerned with the right, for example, to say what you want online without censorship and without being subject to the chilling effects of surveillance. By Indra de Lanerolle These kind of freedoms are sometimes called “negative freedoms” or “freedoms from…”. They address the right…
United States (US) Senator Ben Cardin, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Wednesday (June 01) said the issue of alleged human rights violations in India is on the agenda for talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his trip to Washington next week.
Maryland Senator Ben Cardin – the ranking democrat on the Senate foreign relations committee – has lambasted India for alleged human rights violations, in a speech at the University of Chicago Centre, in Delhi, on Wednesday. Cardin said while the US is looking forward to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit next week, India needs to…
Over 50,000 Muslims have signed a petition spearheaded by Bhartiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) seeking a ban on triple talaq. The online petition calls the triple talaq system ‘un-Quranic practice’. Commenting on the ongoing movement, BMMA co-founder Zakia Soma said, over 50K have advocated for abolition of triple talaq system in the Muslim community. She…
HYDERABAD: V Koushik was the star of his batch at Chennai’s SRM University. He was among the first to bag a placement and finished his engineering course with top marks. A year on, he is still waiting for a joining date from L&T Infotech. “When I sat for the interview, I had no clue that…
New Delhi: National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairman Justice H L Dattu on Wednesday said the rights watchdog needed some teeth to enforce its orders on remedial measures in cases relating to violations. “NHRC is a toothless tiger. We painstakingly investigate human rights violation cases, sometimes in remote areas, with our limited resources. The evidence…
BENGALURU: In an effort to buoy up digitization in India, Intel has recently announced three innovative initiatives to succor PM Modi’s Digital India programme, reports ET. The new slew of initiatives has been launched to realize the potential of government’s ambitious programme by delivering digital literacy to non-urban Indian population. These initiatives will expand the…
New Delhi, June 1 (KNN) In the wake of growing need of cyber security, the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has suggested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to form a Cyber Commission to strengthen cybersecurity in both public as well as private sectors. In a letter to the Prime Minister, the traders’ apex body highlighted…
Facebook is a worldwide sensation and has become part of our lives in ways that we couldn’t have imagined a few years ago. The social media giant has now announced that there are about 148 million active monthly users in India alone, speaking volumes about the popularity of the platform in the country. The info…