-CNN-IBN The arrest of two editors of Zee News Sudhir Chaudhary and Samir Ahluwalia has ignited the debate over whether there is a need for regulation of the media. Talking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, editors called for regulation of the media. Press Council Chairman Justice Markandey Katju says Zee's licence should be suspended if charges are found true. "If there are 40 out of 48 representatives of the media in the...
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Visitors to Haryana may soon face fingerprint checks-Varinder Bhatia
-The Indian Express The Haryana Police are installing fingerprint scanners at border checkposts in a bid to check crime in the state. Visitors entering through 30 checkposts on Haryana’s borders with Delhi, Chandigarh, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh will be randomly stopped and asked to undergo the test, which will then be checked against a database of known criminals in the state and neighbouring districts. The scanners have already been procured...
More »Government asks CBI to probe 24 NGOs receiving foreign funds
-PTI Government has asked the CBI to probe alleged illegal activities of 24 NGOs which received funds from abroad, Lok Sabha was informed today. Minister of State for Home R P N Singh said different state Police forces were also asked to probe into the alleged irregularities of 10 other NGOs which received funds from abroad. The Minister said altogether Rs 10,997.35 crore was received as foreign contribution by 23,172 NGOs across India...
More »Virtual menace-Apar Gupta
-The Indian Express The debate about Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, is growing heated. As more cases of its abuse surface, even Communications and IT Minister Kapil Sibal has begun to mull changes to the act. The key question to be probed is whether individual actions booked under the provision are isolated instances of abuse or the section itself flawed. For that, we need to first explore how...
More »Off death row, after loss of 16 years -Muzaffar Raina
-The Telegraph Srinagar: If appetite for capital punishment has been whetted in the country, Padshah Begum’s experience today should serve as a timely note of caution. The 60-year-old lady in Srinagar received word this afternoon that Delhi High Court has taken her son off death row because “serious lapses” marked the police investigation into a blast in the capital in 1996. She is no stranger to such news: two years ago, her eldest...
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