Visakhapatnam: Awareness is needed regarding the legal rights of women to prevent atrocities against them, said speakers at a meeting organised by the District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) and Gaytatri Cultural Welfare Society on Saturday. The meeting was held to discuss at length about the ‘Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal diagnostic Techniques Act (PCPNDT) Act’. Principal district…
Chandigarh: With jailed gangsters having a free run with posts on social media and reports of prisons being dens of drugs and crime, the Punjab Police on Sunday conducted a state-wide “major search operation” in various jails leading to the “recovery of number of mobile phones, SIM cards besides tablets being used as drugs by…
Hours after Hizbul Mujahideen militant Waseem Ahmad Malla was killed in Shopian on April 7, a Facebook profile ‘Ess Eff’ with around 4,000 ‘friends’ had uploaded a photo of his body saying, “May Allah accept his shahadah”. The photo was ‘liked’ by around 1,100 netizens. Another profile of ‘Minnat Ul Lah’ put out a similar…
New Delhi: Spurred by the realisation that young minds are being radicalised online, the Delhi Police’s Special Cell is in the process of constituting a “social media monitoring cell” to keep tabs on impressionable youth in the capital. A brainchild of the police commissioner, it will operate within the Special Cell and include cyber experts…
Guwahati, May 10: Police summoned budding Assamese singer Bhrigu Kashyap here today for questioning following an FIR lodged by popular singer Priyanka Bharali. She alleged that Kashyap had uploaded their “intimate pictures” on social media recently. Fearing arrest, Kashyap moved a court here today and was granted interim bail. The court asked Kashyap to appear…
New Delhi: A few days following the shocking gang rape of Ernakulam Law College student, Jisha, social media is going berserk about a statement given out by South Indian actress Priyamani – who appeared in an item song of Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Chennai Express’. Priyamani took to Twitter to share her feelings about the brutal…
NarendraModi led present NDA government seems very serious about digitization plan of the country and is making all the right moves in the direction. The latest in the list of ‘Digital India’ plan, is a project that will be commissioned to connect 8,621 villages in the north-eastern region by installing 321 mobile tower sites by…
It has been a year since Digital India was launched—triggering several transformative programmes and investment flows into the technology sector. The initiative has captured the world’s imagination and has rightly catapulted India into the radars of most global technology players. But as more and more Indians go online and the internet starts wiring up the…
A typical internet day today across the world includes 2.2 billion GB of web traffic, 207 billion e-mails sent, 8.8 billion YouTube videos watched, 4.2 billionGoogle searches conducted and 803 million tweets sent. The World Bank’s Digital Dividends report indicates that despite being a connected world, 2 billion people still do not have a mobile…
As the ongoing hunger strike by JNU students entered the 13th day, VC M Jagadesh Kumar spoke to Manash Pratim Gohain and said free speech was intact in the university, but outsiders wouldn’t be allowed to meddle in JNU’s affairs. The excerpts: The condition of students on hunger strike has deteriorated. Is the university worried?…