Perhaps you’ve heard of this phrase “net neutrality”. And about some tussle over it. And perhaps you’ve let it slide from your consciousness, because it doesn’t seem like it could concern you, especially in India. But lend me your eyes for a few minutes and let me tell you how India’s telcos and telecom regulators…
The ‘Digital India’ campaign of the Narendra Modi-led NDA government will be a game-changer for the digital technology revolution in the country with the plan being to cover 100 crore people under the endeavour by 2020, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said today. India has also put in place adequate safeguards to ensure that digital…
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday said that 35 magisterial and judicial probes are underway against security forces for alleged human rights violations in the state. As many as 22 magisterial inquiries and 13 judicial inquiries against security force personnel for alleged human rights violations are at different stages of inquiry in the state,…
The department of electronics and information technology (DeitY) has come up with a policy on adoption of open source software (OSS) for government of India. The key objective of the policy is to provide a framework for rapid and effective adoption of OSS; to ensure strategic control in e-governance applications and systems from a long…
The State government is all set to go paperless with the much talked about e-office project. The National Informatics Centre (NIC) is developing the ‘e-office’ software with specifications required for the implementation of the project in the State. Though making government offices go paperless has been in the talks for over a decade, since S…
Imagine what kind of an Internet you would have in India three years from now, once the Airtel Zero idea, of creating a free Internet by allowing Internet companies to buy data, becomes the norm across telecom operators. The top four telecom operators are adding around nine million mobile Internet users a quarter. India is adding around…
Actor Paresh Rawal today denied reports that his upcoming film “Dharam Sankat Mein” talks about the problems between Hindus and Muslims in the country. There were reports that the film was first shown to a Muslim maulvi and a Hindu pandit by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) in order to avoid controversy after…
The Supreme Court will examine whether Indian Penal Code(IPC)’s section 499 relating to defamation and section 500 providing for punishment for defamation travelled beyond the constitutional provision imposing reasonable restriction on the freedom of speech and expression. A bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Prafulla C. Pant on Tuesday decided to examine whether sections…
The Devendra Fadnavis-led Maharashtra government will soon enact a law that will make it compulsory for every multiplex in the state to reserve one screen for Marathi movies during the 6 pm to 9 pm slot. This was announced by Culture Minister, Vinod Tawde, in the Assembly yesterday in his reply to a debate on…
Within weeks after striking down Section 66A of Information Technology Act, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to examine the constitutional validity of Section 499 and 500 of IPC making defamation an offence punishable by up to a two-year jail term. A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla C Pant asked the Centre to…