Manipur is burning but the rest of India did not care. The violence in the State began on May 3, 2023, but the nation was in deep slumber till July 19. It took a video clip of sexual violence by a mob to surface and go viral on social media …
Read More »NCW was informed of 6 incidents of violence in Manipur
Context The National Commission for Women (NCW) had been apprised of the alleged incident of women being paraded naked and brutally assaulted in Manipur on June 12, more than a month before a video of the incident surfaced on social media on July 19. Two women activists and a civil …
Read More »India’s data protection law needs refinement
Changes can help make the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 ‘future-proof’ and ensure a better complaints mechanism. India is no Europe, and this seems especially true in the face of a task such as drafting and conceptualising a data protection law for over 1.4 billion Indians. The European Union’s …
Read More »Manufacturing ecosystem for Airbus C-295 aircraft taking shape in India
In September, the Indian Air Force (IAF) will receive the first C-295 transport aircraft and ahead of it, six pilots have been trained in Seville by Airbus and training of a 20-member maintenance crew is currently under way. Ground breaking ceremony for a training centre at Air Force Station, Agra, …
Read More »A job and career right the disabled cannot be denied
Justice delayed is justice denied’ is a statement often used in the context of judicial cases that have been or are pending for long in courts of law. There could be several factors responsible for such a situation to arise. These include the complex nature of cases; a lack of …
Read More »U.K.’s illegal migration Bill on its way to becoming law
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Read More »A push for GM mustard disregarding science, the law
A determined battle by environmentalists in the Supreme Court of India against Delhi University’s genetically modified (GM) herbicide-tolerant (HT) mustard is all that stands between GM food and Indian farmers and consumers. GM crops are quite different from conventional varieties and hybrids, such as those developed by farmers, agricultural research …
Read More »Voters to get NOTA option for local body polls
The NOTA (none of the above) option will, hereafter, be a part of the electronic voting machines for urban local bodies (ULBs) in Tamil Nadu. This has been made possible by the State Municipal Administration and Water Supply (MAWS) Department through a notification issued in April. With this, the State …
Read More »A Bill that fences in the right to information
The news that the Union Cabinet has approved the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill and will table it in the monsoon session of Parliament raises certain issues. The draft Bill was placed in the public domain in December 2022 but the final Bill has not been placed before the public. …
Read More »U.S. hands over 105 antiquities to India
U.S. hands over 105 antiquities to India following agreement The countries had agreed to work towards preventing illegal trafficking of cultural artefacts during P.M’s state visit to the U.S. last month. The United States on Monday handed over 105 trafficked antiquities to India. India and the U.S. have also agreed to …
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