-The Hindu In the Net neutrality debate, there is a conflict between two core values: ease of access and neutrality. The ease of access promised by applications like Free Basics compromises neutrality and may later morph into a method of predatory pricingIf programs that bring access to a part of the Internet in the immediate future were to entrench themselves, it could eventually lead to telecom companies abusing their dominant positionsIn...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Greenpeace still in government’s NGO list despite row
The Times of India NEW DELHI: Even as Greenpeace India faces heat from the home ministry over FCRA issues, the environment ministry has ensured it remains in the government's directory of environmental NGOs. The directory, comprising around 2,300 environmental NGOs including Greenpeace, was released by environment and forest minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday. The directory was released ahead of the government's plan to bring out performance-based rating of NGOs working in the field...
More »Greenpeace withdraws plea in Delhi HC
-The Hindu A day after getting relief from the Madras High Court, environmental group Greenpeace India on Thursday withdrew its writ petition in the Delhi High Court challenging suspension of its registration under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) and freezing of five bank accounts. The Madras High Court had on Wednesday granted an interim stay for eight weeks on the Ministry of Home Affairs order of September 2 cancelling the non-government...
More »Interim stay on cancellation of Greenpeace’s registration
-The Hindu In a breather to Greenpeace India Society, the Madras High Court on Wednesday granted an interim stay on a Home Ministry order, which cancelled the Foreign Contributions (Regulations) Act, 2010 registration given to the international NGO. When the plea filed by Greenpeace came up for hearing on Wednesday, which challenged the Home Ministry order on September 2, Justice M.M. Sundresh granted an interim stay on the order and ordered for...
More »Children of a different law -G Sampath
-The Hindu A recent sting video shows the men acquitted in the Laxmanpur Bathe case boasting about the same massacre. Will the passing of the Prevention of Atrocities (Amendment) Bill finally change the way justice is delivered to Dalits? On the night of December 1, 1997, in Laxmanpur Bathe, a village in Bihar’s Arwal district 90 km from Patna, 58 Dalits were slaughtered by a gang of dominant caste men that went...
More »