-The Hindu We need to apply a new credo, digital dynamism, that recognises the complex web that is the internet today An unseasonably warm new year has been substituted by a densely spewing fog over the concept of net neutrality. Net neutrality is a specific approach to the economic regulation of the internet. It is based on the premise of the ‘end to end design principle’, in which traffic on the internet is...
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Free, not fair -Sukumar Muralidharan
-The Hindu Business Line The mythology of free trade being a force for economic progress remains entrenched in world politics Globalisation has created a unique spectator sport, where political dignitaries periodically gather at carefully chosen venues for days of deliberation over humanity’s most consequential problems. It is a spectacle at which ‘civil society’ — as the new force in world politics is called — is granted a tent of its own, financed...
More »SC-appointed pollution panel chief on odd-even: It takes political will, we welcome it -Mayura Janwalkar
-The Indian Express It (odd-even policy) is not our cup of tea. But any step taken to decrease the number of vehicles on the road is welcome. Delhi: The Delhi government’s odd-even pollution-control plan was not everyone’s “cup of tea”, but it was a move in the right direction, chairman of the Supreme Court-appointed Environmental Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) Bhure Lal said Tuesday. “It (odd-even policy) is not our cup of tea....
More »Ban registration of diesel buses, autos in NCR, says SC body -Mallica Joshi
-Hindustan Times The fight against air pollution extended to nearby towns in NCR on Saturday as the Supreme Court-mandated Environment Protection Control Authority (EPCA) directed seven districts across Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to stop the registration of diesel autos, taxis and buses with immediate effect. In a move to phase out diesel-run public transport facilities from NCR, the statutory body directed all authorities concerned in the seven districts to stop issuing fitness...
More »CJI moves to crack down: Not fair for rich to buy luxury cars, pollute -Utkarsh Anand
-The Indian Express "Why don't you people take credit of cleaning Delhi air? You could enumerate the steps to be taken and why you are asking the court to do it," the Supreme Court bench hearing the PIL said. A ban on registration of diesel SUVs and high-end vehicles with engine capacity of over 2000 cc for an initial period of three months, strict curbs on diesel vehicles which are over 10...
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