The Supreme Court today said certain comments have to be necessarily construed as “defamatory” and those making such statements, even if they happen to be true, could not claim immunity from prosecution. A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and P.C. Pant said there must be reasonable restrictions on freedom of speech, as it cited two…
The Union government’s contention in the Supreme Court that the provisions in the Indian Penal Code on criminal defamation do not have a chilling effect on free speech will disappoint proponents of fundamental freedoms. The zeal to retain a law that the state can use to stifle criticism is at the heart of the government’s…
Reddit, one of the most popular sites on the internet and a social media platform that is almost entirely user-driven, has been in open revolt since June. Last week, that revolt culminated with the dismissal of CEO Ellen Pao. Reddit’s users thought they’d won victory for their values of free speech absolutism and resistance against the…
Pushing strongly for de-criminalisation of defamation, political leaders across the spectrum argued in the Supreme Court on Wednesday that continuing with defamation as a penal offence under a colonial law muzzles free speech in a modern welfare state where truth and public debate are considered the greatest ways to good governance. A Bench headed by…
The Cyber Crime Police arrested two persons from Uttar Pradesh for allegedly hacking the website and email accounts of Mee Seva centre and siphoning off over `13 lakh. The arrested include Mohd. Khasim Khan (40), and Himanshu Shekhar Singh alias Rinku Singh (34), both natives of Uttar Pradesh. The duo hacked the Mee Seva website…
A new smartphone app that monitors patients suffering from chronic cardiopulmonary diseases by analysing the way they walk can warn doctors at the first sign of trouble. Using the health-tracking app, MoveSense, developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a patient’s oxygen saturation level can be passively monitored with medical accuracy. Oxygen…
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar and IIT, Bhubaneswar have joined hands to develop a series of e-Health technologies that can radically alter healthcare services delivery systems in Odisha and the country. The premier institutions have set about developing an e-Clinic kiosk that can establish early health warning systems, predicting disease patterns…
The Rajasthan government today announced to launch ‘Aarogya Rajasthan Abhiyan’ campaign to collect and compile health data of rural population in the state. E-health cards will be generated for people living in rural areas during the campaign which will start on August 15 and continue till December 31. Health department employees at Gram Panchayat level will collate data and on the…
Telangana government has embarked on ‘e-arogyam’, an online e-medicine centre in all the government hospitals. The main aim of this programme is to provide quality healthcare services to poor patients in the rural areas. As part of government’s initiative to provide high quality healthcare services to the poor patients and to improve the existing healthcare…
To Inform, Educate & Engage citizens across the country, Digital India Week, from 1stJuly to 7th July, 2015 has been observed all over India. In thisweek, multiple and varied events and activities took place at all the levels. Starting from the National level event, launched by Hon’ble Prime Minister,events were conducted at State and District…