Freedom of speech cannot be curtailed in centres of learning. Students have the right to criticize, but the freedom should not stoop to the level of derogatory remarks against a person,” said Kerala Technological University vice-chancellor Kuncheria P Isaac. He was speaking against the ban imposed on a student group at IIT-Madras for criticizing Prime…
The ban on a student group by IIT Madras, allegedly after an anonymous complaint to the Central government, has ignited a political storm all over India, targeting HRD Minister Smriti Irani. The Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle, a group of around 20 students, was accused in the complaint of trying to “spread hatred” towards PM Narendra…
Last year, 18-year-old Nikita Singh came up against that notorious peer pressure to smoke. All her college friends were doing it, and they found her ‘stuck-up’ and ‘old-fashioned’ for being too health-conscious to light up. She smoked her first cigarette a few months later, in June. Only it wasn’t a regular cigarette, but an electronic…
Visitors to Shimla Summer Festival will be able to enjoy free Wi-Fi internet during the festival from May 31 to June 7, deputy mayor Tikender Singh Panwar said on Saturday. The facility is being provided on pilot basis and to gauge the hill town’s readiness for later providing Wi-Fi Internet connectivity across the city as…
America’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the powerful regulator for all communication, has proposed that poor citizens of the US should have subsidised access to the internet via broadband. According to a report in the New York Times last week, the FCC believes that the subsidy programme, named Lifeline, will be in line with its view…
Google announced that it is working with US jean maker Levi Strauss to make clothing from specially woven fabric with touch-screen control capabilities. The Internet titan revealed its so-called Project Jacquard and his partnership with Levi Strauss in its annual developers conference in San Francisco. Named after a Frenchman who invented a type of loom, Project…
As the government readies to formally launch the ‘Digital India Program’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called a meeting on Monday of ministers, including Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, Power Minister Piyush Goyal and Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, entrusted with creating a roadmap for the weeklong campaign. The launch of Digital India, one of the…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Indian government is preparing to launch its ‘Digital India’ initiative on a large scale, which will also include selling merchandise, hackathons and games. Launch of Digital India, an initiative to take technology to the villages and block-levels, will be spread over a week across the country. No dates have been fixed…
Milind Deora, a former minister in the United Progressive Alliance government, has cautioned against the possible misuse of a new and more sophisticated system of surveillance conceptualised by his government and now reportedly put on the fast track by the Narendra Modi government. Called the Central Monitoring System, it allows government agencies to bypass phone and…