Voicing concerns over alleged human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir and PoK, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein today appealed to both India and Pakistan to grant his team access to Jammu and Kashmir as well as Pakistan occupied Kashmir.
MANGALURU: Half of Indian population will be onlineincluding half its rural population, said Chetan Krishnaswamy, country head – Public Policy, Google India.
Majority of Indian users will use internet primarily on smartphones. By end of 2015, India had recorded 350 million internet users,
What’s your wishlist for how the internet can become a transformative power in India by 2020, and not just an enabler? A range of industry experts offered insights into India’s internet story, and potential for future impacts. Keynote speakers and an interactive panel discussed a number of such digital media issues at the launch of the…
Open offers for selling kidneys on social media have baffled the medical fraternity and law-enforcers alike, especially at a time when such rackets have been busted at notable hospitals in Mumbai, Akola, Gurgaon and the Anand district of Gujarat. The state human organ transplant unit recently stumbled upon certain Facebook pages like ‘I want to…
Despite setting up 44 cyber labs in the state to deal with cyber crimes, the government is finding it tough to stop the use of WhatsApp for spreading false and communal messages. Home department officials have admitted that there is no control worldwide over WhatsApp, which is the easiest tool of communication that most citizens…
PUNE: Compelling a retired official of Military Dairy Farm inKhadki to reveal his bank account number and debit card details, cyber fraudsters made online purchases of Rs97,000 inBihar and Jharkhand on April 26.
Last summer, a pregnant 14-year-old rape survivor went to the Supreme Court of India to fight for a legal, medically necessary abortion. And just this month, another pregnant woman, Miss X, who requested a medically necessary abortion after being diagnosed with a fatal fetal impairment, also made her case in court.
In the middle of 2014, Nalini Goel*, a newly confirmed resident of the United States of America, realised that she had had enough. Her abusive husband had almost killed her once, had hospitalised her several more times including when she was pregnant and had even threatened her daughter when she was born.
When we speak of freedom or azadi, it brings to mind a very different idea of India. Today, we are becoming a country that can deliver eulogies and express opinions, but not initiate action to change the situation. Is that the meaning of freedom? Until we realise this, we cannot be free.
Last month, I met Imbesat Ahmad and Sharique Ahmad, two young men who are trying to make competitive exams a little easy for young aspirants in Jammu and Kashmir, especially in the Valley. The two have developed an app called Rise, which provides students with study material, counselling and information on courses and examinations, among…