India’s Internet governance model will be consistent with the role private firms play in widening Internet’s reach and the pre-eminent role of government in public welfare, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today. In recent times, issues related to privacy, content regulation and barrier to access Internet or Internet based services have been in the…
India’s Internet governance model will be consistent with the role private firms play in widening Internet’s reach and the pre-eminent role of government in public welfare, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today. In recent times, issues related to privacy, content regulation and barrier to access Internet or Internet based services have been in the…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not have to face a U.S. lawsuit claiming he failed to stop anti-Muslim rioting in 2002, a federal judge in New York ruled on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres upheld the U.S. Department of State’s determination that Narendra Modi, as a sitting head of government, is entitled to…
India has taken strong exception to the European Parliament’s resolution, that accused India of “a serious breach of human rights” in its treatment of two Italian marines accused of killing two Indian fishermen off the coast of Kerala in February 2012. The Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said the case was sub-judice, and…
Canada-based NRI Sital Kler, who is also case coordinator of South Asian Human Rights Group of Canada Society, handed over a list of 60 names of Punjabis to chief minister Parkash Singh Badal at Jalandhar on Friday, saying they were lodged in Pakistan jails. Kler said he had received the list from Pakistan-based human rights…
Leading human rights groups on Thursday released satellite images claiming to show massive destruction by Boko Haram of two Nigerian towns in what is feared to be the deadliest strike of the Islamists’ six-year insurgency.
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The North East Dialogue Forum (NEDF) in collaboration with civil societies (Social Youth Organisation Sanjenbam, Meira Paibi of Lairenkabi, Heibongpokpi, Lamban, Lamlongei, Tera Urak, Kadangband, Phayeng, Singda, Haorang Keirel, Haorang Khunou) organized a mass rally cum public meeting on “International Humanitarian Law and Right to Life” at Lairenkabi Dramatic Hall, Imphal West, Manipur on January…
US Secretary of State John Kerry had a “very successful” India trip and has instituted follow up mechanisms on the country to strengthen ties, a top Obama Administration official has said. Noting that the United States is ready to collaborate with India to deliver a truly digital country to realise “shared goals”, Assistant Secretary of…
Amitabh Bachchan was adjudged as the Social Media Person of the Year at the 5th India Digital Awards presented by IAMAI. The winners of the 5th India Digital Awards coinciding with 9th India Digital Summit, 2015, were announced at a ceremony yesterday. The awards, this year had 6 Categories and 31 sub-categories for the internet…
The breakneck growth in internet usage over the past two decades has forced policymakers to confront a host of challenges, from how to regulate the sharing economy to who owns the infrastructure behind the “tubes” themselves. While tempers have flared on a number of these issues, I tend to give the benefit of the doubt…