Now a Miss India forced Assam govt to act on a child abuse case it has been ignoring: A day after Miss India 2016 Priyadarshini Chatterjee wrote to the Assam chief minister about an alleged child abuse involving a professor of Guwahati’s Assam Agricultural University, Sarbananda Sonowal flung to action and directed the police to…
Zero policing of child porn in India: Even as the Supreme Court on Wednesday constituted a committee of representatives to explore technical solutions and block videos of rape and child pornography from being circulated on social media, a married woman from East Champaran district of Bihar filed a complaint against five men of her village…
Delhi: Cyber crooks stealing, morphing social media photos to extort victims: A class-12 student of South Delhi was shocked to find her pornographic video online, the link of which was shared by an anonymous user on chat demanding money to delete it. Preliminary investigation revealed that her picture was copied from a social media site…
Hyderabad: Cyber Crime Cell arrests two for harassing woman: Hyderabad (Telengana) [India], Mar 21 (ANI): The cyber crime cell in Cyberabad, Hyderabad, arrested two for sending abusive messages and outraging the modesty of the complainant. The accused have been identified as 35 year-old Alapati Shivaiah , Managing Director of Hyma consultancy and another woman aged…
A single judge of Madhya Pradesh High Court has held the provisions under section 91 of Criminal Procedure Code (Cr.P.C) “is not a substitute” or “an alternate remedy” for the right under provisions of Right to Information Act that may or may not be … Read More
You may soon be able to access internet while you are on board of Air India flight as the government-owned air carrier is planning to introduce Wi-Fi services on its domestic planes by July this year, The Times of India reported. It is planning to launch Wi-Fi services on board of its Airbus A-320 planes which…
‘China ahead of India in internet access’: China is way ahead of India when it comes to internet access and smartphone ownership, a latest Pew Research report has said. According to the survey, 71 per cent of Chinese say they use the internet at least occasionally or own a smartphone, our definition of internet users.…
An open letter to my friend Tarek Fatah: Hope all is well with you in India. I had noticed when some twitterati tried to enlist your support in condemning me for my last column where I had argued that Narendra Modi was not the great prime minister some believed him to be, you refused to…
Meanwhile in India… the TRAI Continues Progress Toward Net Neutrality Regulation: As the United States once again slips back into battle mode over the preservation of an open internet through regulation, India continues its efforts to develop a thoughtful and effective regulatory approach to the concept of net neutrality. Read More
TRAI floats consultation paper asking ‘how to ease telecom business in India?’: In order to “ease” opening of a telecom business in India, telecom regulator TRAI is inviting comments from telcos, service providers and stakeholders asking how the existing regulations could be tweaked. The regulator is looking at simplifying or even tweaking existing license conditions,…