The Pune police on Tuesday inaugurated the Social Media Lab that will help monitor issues related unlawful practices and activities occurring taking place on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube among other sites as well as other websites on the internet. The police have termed the lab as an important instrument step that…
Officers should guard against misuse or abuse of the provisions of Right to Information Act, Shankar Patil, State Information Commissioner, said here on Tuesday. He told officials at the zilla panchayat to use their discretion in deciding on RTI applications that were not bona fide. “If you know that an application has been filed only…
Senior Congress leader and party spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi’s article on sedition and free speech has appeared in the latest edition of pro-RSS journal ‘Organiser’. Singhvi has termed it as a “victory of Indian Constitution”, the fact that the journal repeatedly approached him and he finally agreed to write for it. The Congress leader makes…
Today’s children can’t imagine life without a social networking profile, sharing photographs online or gaming with their friends. In India over 30 million children have a mobile phone and an estimated 134 million are expected to come online by 2017. While the internet provides opportunities for India’s youth to learn and share, the lack of…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: India is losing its democratic prominence in terms of freedom of speech and expression, Prof Vesselin Popovski, Executive Director, Centre for the Study of United Nations and former Bulgarian diplomat, has said. He was speaking exclusively to ‘Express’ on the sidelines of the three-day international seminar on ‘Human rights and policing’ held at Government…
Frustrated that no one would believe she was abused, a teenage girl in northern India had no other option but to film her own father raping her. She later showed the recording to authorities which led to her father’s arrest. An 18-year-old girl, who was given the alias Sarita Devi, had been telling her mother…
NEW DELHI — A journalist in eastern India was arrested after he posted a message on social media criticizing the police and calling for legal protections for reporters in the violence-scarred region, his lawyer said Wednesday. The journalist, Prabhat Singh, who had worked for an Indian television network and had been posting news on social…
Earlier in the week, we explored the conceptual challenges to the universal human rights framework that have been brought by digital technology. Today, we shift from conceptual to concrete real world challenges, to explore the various ways digital technology may negatively affect actual enjoyment of human rights. I. Real World Disruption of the Practical Enjoyment of Human…
Internet can bring the actual revolution empowering millions in rural areas by connecting to the mainstream in India. Connecting rural India will provide the essential bond between urban and rural India. It is certain in relaying the benefits of a digital economy to the largest part of the country. It will strengthen in providing education,…
On Thursday night, a mob carrying iron rods descended on the home of a 40-year-old dentist in West Delhi’s Vikaspuri and dragged him out of his house as his horrified son and wife watched helplessly. As the men rained blows on Dr Pankaj Narang, his family members appealed to their neighbours for help. But by…