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NRC misses 'reasons' date

-The Telegraph Guwahati: People flocking to NRC seva kendras in Assam on Friday to learn the reasons behind their exclusion from the draft National Register of Citizens were told to come back after Sunday. The date from which the reasons are to be revealed had already been postponed once, from Tuesday to Friday. Also, the forms to file claims and objections were supposed to be available online and at the seva kendras from...

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Indians online: One in five harassed, here is how, why -Karishma Mehrotra

-The Indian Express Out of 919 Internet users in India in the age group 15-65, 175 (19%) reported that they had online harassment. New Delhi: ONE IN every five Internet users surveyed in India have reported having faced online harassment. This is one of the findings of surveys by the policy think-tank LIRNEAsia on the Global South and information technology; other findings were reported in The Indian Express Wednesday. Out of 919 Internet...

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Setting up a social media hub will be like creating a surveillance state, says SC

-PTI Bench issues notice to Union government on a plea against the project to track “digital media chatter from all core social media platforms” The Supreme Court on Friday took a strong note of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry’s decision to set up a social media hub for monitoring online data, observing that it would be “like creating a surveillance state”. The court said the government wanted to tap citizens’ WhatsApp messages and...

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New Save the Children report reveals insecurity of teenage girls from the outside world, but are our homes safe enough?

  Released in May this year, a study by Save the Children has found that if you are an adolescent girl living in the country, then you are most likely to be afraid about being harassed outside your homes viz. in public places. Entitled WINGS 2018 - World of India's Girls: A study on the perception of girls’ safety in public spaces, the study shows that nearly one-third of teenage girls surveyed...

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Food activists slam govt on hunger deaths

-The Telegraph State ignoring ground realities of malnutrition, busy trying to prove every victim was ailing, says Drèze Ranchi: Right to Food Campaign activists claim the Jharkhand government was doing precious little to arrest the circumstances that force people to starve and die, but was continuing to "shamelessly marshal" all resources to prove after every starvation death that it was because of illness and not hunger. According to noted economist and activist, Jean...

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