Restore internet, withdraw police: GJM protests as hill shutdown enters 50th day: Demanding restoration of Internet services and immediate withdrawal of police force, the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha took out rallies in various parts of the Darjeeling hills on Thursday. As the indefinite strike called by the GJM in their demand for a separate state enters…
Bengaluru techie held for illegally accessing Aadhaar database: A Bengaluru-based software developer was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly accessing the Aadhaar database through a mobile application he had developed, city police commissioner T Suneel Kumar told mediapersons on Thursday. Abhinav Shrivastav (31), an alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur, hails from Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh. The app used for…
India should not retreat from quality of polity, freedom of speech: ex-World Bank chief economist Kaushik Basu: India should not retreat from the quality of polity and the freedom of speech, the keystones of democracy, former World Bank chief economist Kaushik Basu said in Mumbai on Friday. “Indian leaders may be concerned about the increasing…