Telecom regulator TRAI today proposed exploring models to give consumers free Internet service within the net neutrality framework, months after barring platforms like Facebook’s Free Basics and Airtel Zero under its differential pricing rule. “The consultation paper (on free data) is being issued to explore model(s) that could achieve benefits of offering free data while…
For women and girls living in India, the threat or reality of sexual violence is ever present in daily life. According to an ActionAid report released on Friday, almost four out of five have experienced some form of sexual harassment or violence in public. And even if they’re lucky enough not to directly encounter sexual…
Rolling out of 4G infrastructure is critical for higher internet speed in India, global financial services firm Morgan Stanley said in a report. “We expect 90 percent of users in India to access the Internet through mobile by 2020. Hence, availability of pan-India 3G and 4G mobile network becomes critical for Internet speeds,” the report…
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released a new consultation paper seeking comments from users and other stakeholders on the issue of free data. The paper was released on 19 May and is open for comments till 16 June. Comments can be sent to TRAI by an email to broadbandtrai@gmail.com. “This consultation paper…
NEW DELHI: Nearly four of five women (79%) in India have experienced some form ofharassment or violence in public and a third groped or touched in public (39%), according to a ActionAid UK report released on Friday on occasion of the International Safe Cities for Women Day.
Cyber bullying is a premeditation and malicious antagonistic activity that is demonstrated by a perpetrator towards a victim (Hendricks, 2012). Many people spend more time texting and on the internet oriented devices and, therefore, they are culpable to be victimized by their friends, peer groups, activists in the name of self-adjudged common good and others…
Pune: The cyber crime cell of the Pune police on Saturday busted yet another fake call centre based in Delhi following the arrest of two men who allegedly ran it. The suspects, Sonu Singh Ramesh Singh (25) of Haryana and Raman Negi (21) of New Delhi, ran the call centre in the name of a…
NEW DELHI: It is great that signs of women empowerment are many in India: Women joining the workforce in greater numbers is just one of the many signs of such empowerment. Increasing vigilance in hospitals over sex discrimination by pregnant women is another positive sign towards acceptance of women. However, there is also a downside…
CHENNAI: When Mythili Krishnan, a single mother, got a job opportunity in New York, she felt like she was on cloud nine. A data mining analyst with an MNC, all she wanted was to get out of Chennai with her child and leave behind the memories of her divorce. But reality hit hard at the…
The Information Commission on Saturday said that RTI applicants need not pay fees for filing appeals before it.
In a release here, the commission said the RTI applicants need pay fees only for the applications they file before the State public information officer concerned.