When he lent his support to a fight against a high-speed train line through the mountains between France and Italy, Erri De Luca never expected to face jail. But the 64-year-old Naples-born writer takes the witness stand on March 16, accused of inciting crime by saying in an interview that the controversial line should be…
Exactly 20 years ago, Nicholas Negroponte of MIT Media Labs wrote a book called Being Digital. In that book, he distinguished between ‘atoms’ and ‘bits’. Atoms make up physical, tangible objects such as CDs, books and letters. Digital information, on the other hand, is made up of bits, the smallest unit of information on a…
Tamil Nadu-based Nokia plant, which was shut down few months back, is likely to start functioning again, Prime Minister Narendra Modi indicated today. “Your concern is right. 25000 people were rendered jobless there,” Modi said in Rajya Sabha while responding to the issue highlighted by CPI(M) member Sitaram Yechury about the closure of the Nokia…
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday condemned the killing of Bangladeshi writer and blogger, Avijit Roy. “I have no language of consolation for the bereaved family. We condemn those who did this act of killing,” the Trinamool Congress (TMC) chairperson said. “I strongly condemn the brutal murder of the Bangladeshi writer. We believe…
It’s ok to be confused. Like I am. Every time I read the newspapers or watch news on television I’m wrought with confusion. A few weeks ago there was a furor about AIB. Then Tamil writer Perumal Murugan gave up writing because of pressure from a community against his novel. Now Puliyur Murugesan has been beaten up…
Taking suo motu cognizance of a media report, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday issued a notice to the State Director General of Police, calling for a report within two weeks in the case of arresting two activists – Tushar Nirmal Sarathy and Jaison C Cooper. The media report has said that the…
With this initiative, the department wants to take eGovernance to the grass-roots level in the state. Telangana Panchayat Raj Department will soon launch e-Panchayat intiative in Domakonda mandal of Nizamabad district. With this initiative, the department wants to take eGovernance to the grass-roots level in the state. The proposed e-Panchayat programme will cover 18 gram…
Consultation Report Consultation brief DEF held a consultative meeting on Internet Rights project with APC-IMPACT Advisory Committee members, think-tank and academic institutions, independent consultants, staff at European Union and civil society groups. The objective of the consultative meeting was present the secondary research conducted around the Frank La Rue Framework concerning Freedom of Expression online…