For schoolchildren, summer may be synonymous with fun. However, it doesn’t bring cheer to all. The vacation season also sees a spurt in child marriages. They are not restricted to the bastion of backwardness that north Karnataka is but are also rampant in IT City Bengaluru. According to Anita Shivakumar, chairperson of the Child Welfare…
Pakistan’s snooping agency ISI is spying on Indian security forces using malwares through mobile gaming and music applications such as Top Gun, mpjunkie, vdjunky, talking frog, the government said on Tuesday. Responding to a question in Lok Sabha, minister of state for home affairs, Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary also said Pakistan’s spy agency was making efforts…
The official website of Utkal University—www.utkaluniversity.ac.in—was on Tuesday hacked allegedly by a group of suspected Pakistani cyber attackers. The hackers, who identified themselves as “Team Pak Cyber Attackers” from Pakistan, defaced the website by posting a Pakistani flag with a message ‘Pakistan Zindabad’. The hackers also took a dig at the state government’s vulnerable cyber…
Usually, it is the police’s job to find criminals. But in this case, some of Punjab’s most wanted men are vying to be ‘caught’ — for the same crime. It all started with a post on Facebook by Vicky Gounder, a member of the ‘Shera Khuban gang’, claiming that he had killed Jaswinder Singh alias…
Chennai: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) sent notices to the Chief Secretary and DGP, Tamil Nadu, over alleged violation of human rights in political rallies during scorching afternoon.
In a complaint registered by DMK, it is said that five persons died due to rallies conducted by Jayalalithaa’s AIADMK in the scorching sun.
New Delhi: Does Right to Life under the Constitution also include “right to be forgotten” online?The Delhi high court opened up the issue for legal scrutiny, and sought the response of the Centre, Google, and an online law compendium on the matter.Earlier this week, Justice Manmohan had admitted a plea filed by a Delhi banker,…
Religious freedom in India was on a “negative trajectory” in 2015 as religious tolerance “deteriorated” and religious freedom violations “increased”, a US report on international religious freedom said on Monday. In its annual report, the Congress-mandated US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) asked the Indian government to publicly rebuke officials and religious leaders that…
The man is Kanhaiya Kumar, a 28-year-old PhD student at the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi, who is loved and loathed in equal measure. The self-confessed Marxist first grabbed headlines in February after he was arrested and charged with sedition for allegedly shouting anti-India slogans at a campus meeting. The slogan in question?…
Few days back while unveiling the future road map for the global technology giant Google, the CEO Sundar Pichai, made a powerful statement that technology has been the force behind democratization in the world. Democratization means the leveling of various categories of contemporary society; be it gender, economically haves and have-nots , socially advanced or…
Four Hindu priests sat cross-legged on the floor in front of silver trays of rice, flowers and vermillion powder, chanting in low baritones that reverberated off the bare walls of the old brick temple. An iPhone propped on a chair captured the service — known as a puja — and beamed it via Skype to…