The Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT), a unit under the department of telecommunications (DoT), has begun technical and operational testing of its servers, linked to the servers of mobile operators. Once in operation, it would enable security agencies to tap phones, intercept and monitor calls without keeping telcos in the loop. However, the requisite…
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of reports alleging that about 20 gangs of inmates operating in Tihar Jail here were involved in illegal activities and offering protection to prisoners who could pay them. The gangs reportedly facilitate intake of different objects, offer protection from abuse to prisoners and even…
A fact finding committee of human rights forums has alleged that E. Subramani, a painter of Pattambakkam, who was picked up by the Neyveli Township police for interrogation in connection with a murder case, had died due to torture meted out to him in police custody. A release said the fact finding committee led by…
Maharashtra has witnessed two custody deaths in Mumbai and Ahmadnagar recently. The National Crime Record Bureau reported that the state has had a total of 333 custodial deaths from 1991 to 2003, and yet no police officer has been convicted for any of the deaths till date. Maharashtra has the dubious distinction of topping the…
“Pregnant women and girls risk putting their health and lives in danger if they remain in Ireland,” says an Amnesty report on Ireland’s abortion laws Savita Halappanavar’s death in October 2012 from infection, after she was not allowed to terminate her pregnancy forced international attention on the controversial abortion laws in Ireland, but according to…
When Hillary Rodham Clinton gathers her supporters at Four Freedoms Park on New York’s Roosevelt Island for a campaign kickoff rally Saturday, the president she will identify herself with won’t be her husband, Bill Clinton, or either of the presidents who appointed her to posts in their administrations, Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter. Instead, she…
For the employees of the famous hill shrine Sabarimala their ‘brief’ discomfort is about to end. The temple is planning to deploy robots to count its money. The plan is to have enough robots to man God’s vault by next year putting an end to theft from its coffers. Employees of the money-counting centre at…
Chanakya National Law University (CNLU) vice-chancellor A Lakhminath said here on Tuesday that even as the present-day education in India has become the worst victim of politics, the academics should strive hard to keep education above politics. Delivering the valedictory address at the 71st orientation programme for college teachers of the state organized by Patna…
A decade ago, New Delhi-based non-profit organization Aman Trust applied to the ministry of home affairs for a licence under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) after foreign donors approached the trust with financial aid. Among them were the Ford Foundation, The Hunger Project and the Tides Foundation. Over the years, however, the non-profit that…
Delhi government is working towards encouraging use of mobile and e-governance to eliminate corruption and red tapism from the system, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia today said. Sisodia, also the Finance Minister in the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP dispensation was addressing an interactive session on ‘Delhi 2020 – A Smart Place to Live, Work and Do…