-Scroll.in While younger daily-wage earners were able to make the journey, the more elderly are stranded far from home with no work. On Tuesday evening, Dashrath Yadav sat at a bus stop in Ahmedabad, listening keenly to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation. The 32-year-old daily-wage earner gathered that there was to be 21-day nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19, the strain of coronavirus that has claimed 10...

-Livemint.com Fake news linking the spread of Covid-19 to chickens have cost the Indian poultry market over ₹1.6 billion a day. The world’s fourth biggest chicken producer now faces its worst crisis in a decade In the first week of February, Somnath Shelke, a poultry farmer in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar, started receiving text messages on WhatsApp that baffled him. “Broiler chicken me korona virus ko paya gaya hai," one of them said. “Tamam logo...

-The Hindu Courts must let government work out a balanced regulatory regime for online content The submissions in the Supreme Court on behalf of the Tamil Nadu government in support of linking social media profiles of registered users with their Aadhaar numbers are not well-founded in the law as it now stands. It is noteworthy that a Division Bench of the Madras High Court, which is hearing two writ petitions on this...

-The Indian Express The question is if linking social media to Aadhaar is breach of privacy. Upholding Aadhaar earlier, the SC had disallowed its use by private firms, stating it was contrary to right to privacy New Delhi: Underscoring the need to strike a balance between privacy and security, the Supreme Court Tuesday agreed to hear a plea by Facebook to transfer to the apex court four petitions filed in the...

-Scroll.in/ The Third Pole Flash-flood warnings routed through NGOs are giving border villages precious lead-time to escape the wrath of suddenly rising rivers. In the last few weeks of June, a series of Whatsapp Messages were sent from Bhutan to India to warn cross-border friends downstream of the Aai, Saralbhanga and Manas rivers about cloud-bursts, swollen rivers and possible flash floods affecting people in the Indian state of Assam. Although originating from officials,...