WE INDIANS NEED A REGULATORY RESPONSE

Sunil Abraham, Executive Director of Centre for Internet and Society, says Indians are vulnerable in the absence of a data protection law What exactly is the nature of the Facebook data breach? What went wrong? Technically, this is not a data breach. There is an internet standard called O-auth (open-authorisation). Through it, different applications on […]

MOSUL NEWS A BUNGLED AFFAIR

Announcing the deaths in Parliament nullified the goodwill the Centre had earned by engaging with the families of the missing Indians For most terrorism analysts, the hope and optimism being expressed by Indian officials over the fate of 39 Indians who had gone missing in Iraq in 2014 and were believed to have been taken […]

WHY RAHUL GANDHI ATTACKED DEVE GOWDA

At a rally, the Congress president said the ‘S’ in Janata Dal (Secular) stands for ‘Sangh’, perhaps forgetting that it is still a formidable force in this belt On the campaign trail in southern Karnataka, Rahul Gandhi took a break from targeting the Bharatiya Janata Party. Instead, he trained his guns at the Janata Dal […]

TEACHERS ON THE WARPATH AGAINST MINISTRY AGENDA

UGC and HRD orders that the teachers protesting will affect the student body way more than teachers A five-day strike, an ‘Adhikar Rally’, was called by the Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA), following its general body meeting on March 18. A large number of students lent support to it, while an equal number remained indifferent. The strike […]

AAP WINS BACK MLAs

As Kejriwal gets back his MLAs, ‘office of profit’ remains a contentious issue, not just in Delhi, but in other states as well In a major embarrassment to the Election Commission of India (EC), the Delhi High Court declared the disqualification of 20 MLAs of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ‘bad in law’ and a violation […]

A MOTHER’S LONG, PAINFUL WAIT

Delhi Police are unable to resolve the curious murder of a young doctor by another. Is someone really powerful protecting the killer? Surrounded by boisterous executives discussing sales targets at a Starbucks store, a distraught mother of a slain doctor narrates her woes, the pain of the murder weighing heavily on her. Dr Shalini Pandey, […]

HACKING LIVES

Millions of people logging onto social media sites are not engaged in a private activity, as they imagine. They are putting themselves out in cyberspace to be exploited Nothing is private. Certainly not your time on the internet. One was afraid of surveillance by governments and policing agencies marking one’s every move. But that’s just […]

Veil lifts for Saudi women

They still crave for the rights that women in other countries have, but Prince Mohammed bin Salman deserves credit for easing restrictions Rohit Dhyani Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman, 32, has said that it is for women to decide whether to wear abaya or not. His statement on women’s rights in Saudi […]