Now, Districts Magistrates can’t order shutdown of internet services: Now, the district magistrates are no more authorized to clamp down on the internet services even in case of law & order problem or communal tension in their respective areas. The Union ministry of information technology has frames fresh rules and regulations in this regard and…
Internet ban in Kashmir- Who is behind it?: An RTI query by Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) revealed that the internet ban in Kashmir was not ordered by official authorities. The home department and the divisional commissioner’s offices which are responsible for law and order hadn’t ordered the clampdown. Kashmir had suffered for…
Mobile Internet services have been restored in the Kashmir valley after 17 days, reports Press Trust of India. Services were cut in over 10 districts on July 9 after security forces killed militant Burhan Wani which sparked widespread protests and violence. This is the longest period where mobile Internet was banned since September 2015 when serviceswere snapped for…
Washington: Religious freedom in India was on a “negative trajectory” in 2015 as religious tolerance “deteriorated” and religious freedom violations “increased”, a US report on international religious freedom said on Tuesday. In its annual report, the Congress-mandated US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) asked the Indian government to publicly rebuke officials and religious leaders…
J&K Shri Ram Sena and Jammu and Kashmir Freedom Fighter Association today paid candle light tributes to the soldiers of 6 Dogra Battalion who laid down their lives in a militant attack at Manipur, in which 18 soldiers died and 15 got severe injuries. To pay tributes to martyrs, a Shraddhanjali programme was organized at…
India has scowled at a UN report that cited New Delhi’s crackdown on activist group Greenpeace among challenges to freedom of peaceful assembly and association, and dismissed the reference as “misplaced enthusiasm”. The report was presented in May by a special rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council. “The report refers to instances of…
Freedom of the press is only part of freedom of expression. Freedom of expression includes your and my freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds. Freedom of expression underpins our way of life in New Zealand, it enables liberal democracy, religious and non-relgious observance, science and reason and innovation in…