Darjeeling: Teachers’ plea to restore internet to help exam-bound students goes unheard: Darjeeling, July 25: It is the students’ community which is being hit the hardest due to the indefinite bandh and ban on internet services in restive Darjeeling. On the one hand, schools and colleges remained closed, and on the other hand, students were…
Plea to restore Internet in Darjeeling rejected: With Class 9 students being unable to fill up their board examination forms without Internet, the Darjeeling teachers’ association on Monday met the district magistrate and sought restoration of its service, but in vain. The authorities rejected the demand saying they would make special arrangements for students to…
Indefinite shutdown enters 40th day, DGP to visit Darjeeling: The Director General of Police and other senior police officers will visit Darjeeling today to assess the law and order situation in the hills as the GJM-sponsored indefinite shutdown entered its 40th day. The situation in Darjeeling remained tense but incident-free as no incidents of violence or…
Lack of privacy laws is an invitation for everyone into our private lives: Contemporary discussions on privacy must pay homage to Samuel Warren’s and Louis Brandel’s article in the 1890 Harvard Law Review, The Right to Privacy. This writing essentially injected the idea of privacy rights into public discourse, pioneering a debate that continues unfettered today.…
WannaCry Wouldn’t Scare Us If India Had a Cybersecurity Ministry: In Star Trek, Nero, a Romulan from the future, uses black holes to destroy planets of the Federation. Jim Kirk and Spock team up to find a way to stop his evil mission that threatens the very existence of mankind. The Star Wars franchise imagines wars fought with an…