The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has objected to the film ‘Nil Bate Sannata’, set for release on Friday , taking exception to its depiction of corporal punishment on children in the classroom on the ground that it violates child rights. NCPCR member Priyank Kanoongo has written to the the Central Board…
A group of women devotees was attacked at the Trimbakeshwar temple in Nashik, Maharashtra, on Wednesday, reported Press Trust of India. They were trying to enter the inner sanctum of the temple when some local residents assaulted them. The police have registered a case against about 200 people for assaulting the women devotees. The temple…
Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi said on Tuesday the Centre was considering criminalizing marital rape.
When asked if there was an attempt to push for criminalization of marital rape, Maneka replied, “Now there is.”
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, chess champion Viswanathan Anand and Bollywood stars took to Twitter this week to support a campaign against child labor, using their fame to draw greater attention to the issue. The campaign, launched by Indian insurer Reliance General Insurance and children’s rights NGO Child Rights and…
A workers’ movement that started in Punjab’s Malwa region last year has started to reach out to the fairer sex too. Women brick kiln workers from across the state will assemble at Bathinda on April 22 as part of the first convention in the state that would be devoted to women workers from the unorganized…
It took me some time to trust the cloud. Growing up with digital technologies that were neither resilient nor reliable — a floppy drive could go kaput without you having done anything, a CD once scratched could not be recovered, hard drives malfunctioned and it was a given that once every few months your PC…
India is currently the world’s second-largest telecommunications market, in terms of subscribers. Voice services have seen consistent growth over the past decade—fuelled by a service that addressed the need of Indians to talk to each other. While they continue to talk, the Indian subscriber is now demanding quality access to the internet for various information…
The country needs programmes for increasing digital literacy in rural areas, and just providing internet access would not be enough, claims a study conducted by a professor of Indian Institute of Management- Ahmedbad (IIMA). The study, titled, ‘Factors Influencing Outcome Expectations and Self-Efficacy in Driving Internet Use in Rural India’, by Rekha Jain, professor of…
If we look at the present scenario, the world is being raised on the internet. No one could have said it better when Eric Schmidt said, “Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.” And it is this anarchy which…
TRANSPARENCY:Commissioner of Police Shailesh Kumar Yadav launching computerisation of FIRs at Tallakulam station in the city on Friday.— Photo: G. Moorthy As part of the State-wide initiative to improve transparency and accessibility Computerised registration of First Information Reports (FIRs) was launched in all police stations in Madurai City and Rural police limits on Friday as…