-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A huge surge in public response has pushed the number of comments on the telecom department panel's net neutrality recommendations well past the 50,000 mark, with almost all seeking free and equal access to the web. At last count on Sunday, the responses to the report on the mygov.in portal were 52,172, a far cry from around 700 comments posted on August 14, and increasing by...
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DoT releases net neutrality report, upholds key principles
-The Times of India Tech The Department of Telecom has released its report on net neutrality in India. The report, which runs in over 100 pages, upholds the key principles of of net neutrality. Below are the key recommendations of the report. 1) The Committee unhesitatingly recommends that "the core principles of Net Neutrality must be adhered to." 2) The international best practices along with core principles of Net Neutrality will help in...
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-The Telegraph New Delhi: When a single woman or unwed mother applies for her child's birth certificate, it must be issued on the basis of her affidavit and without insisting that she disclose the name of the father, the Supreme Court ruled today. The court also held that an unwed Christian mother could assume the guardianship of her child without issuing prior notice to the father for permission as laid down in...
More »Farmers star in their own films -Tomojit Basu
-The Hindu Business Line Instructional videos made by, and for the agricultural community Treatment of paddy seeds and scientific application of fungicide in Odisha, the creation of an ‘Azolla’ mother pit in Andhra Pradesh, insights into mint cultivation in Uttar Pradesh, and natural remedies for diarrhoea in cattle in Karnataka. You learn about all these and more from the nearly 4,000 videos produced by Digital Green, a seven-year-old development venture that is...
More »‘Death of net neutrality will kill media freedom’
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Several TV news channels died only because they could not afford the carriage fee charged by cable and DTH operators. The proposal of doing away with net neutrality, as mooted by a Trai consultation paper, raises the possibility of media websites too falling prey to the carriage fee model. This was the consensus at a workshop titled, "Erosion of net neutrality: Impact on the media". If the...
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