-The Hindu 'Privacy argument will hit governance' Highlighting the need for a comprehensive law on data protection, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) informed a nine-judge Bench of the Supreme Court on Tuesday that the Centre has constituted a committee of experts, led by former Supreme Court judge, Justice B.N. Srikrishna, to identify “key data protection issues” and suggest a draft data protection Bill. Appearing before the Bench led by Chief Justice...
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Prof. Devesh Kapur, director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania, interviewed by Anuradha Raman (The Hindu)
-The Hindu The political scientist on the danger to India’s checks and balances, and the perils of the democratisation of mediocrity in universities Professor of political science and a holder of the Madan Lal Sobti Chair, Devesh Kapur has been director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary India at University of Pennsylvania since 2006. Mr. Kapur, who recently co-edited Public Institutions in India: Performance and Design, says our public universities...
More »Challenge to Aadhaar act: Is privacy basic right? 9-judge Bench to decide -Ananthakrishnan G
-The Indian Express A five-judge Constitution Bench, which met to examine if the Aadhaar Act violates a person’s right to privacy, realised that the court will have to first answer if right to privacy constitutes a fundamental right under the Constitution before it takes up the main question. New Delhi: The Supreme Court decided Tuesday to set up a nine-judge bench to decide whether right to privacy can be declared a fundamental...
More »SC order CBI probe into Manipur extra-judicial killings
-PTI The apex court asked the CBI director to constitute a team of officers to investigate the cases of extra-judicial killing in Manipur. The Supreme Court on Friday directed a probe by the CBI into the alleged extra-judicial killings by the Army, the Assam Rifles and the Manipur Police in the insurgency—hit State. A Bench of Justices M.B. Lokur and U.U. Lalit asked the CBI director to appoint a team of officers to...
More »Calcutta HC warns Narendra Modi govt of 'action' if Judges' posts are not filled -Ashok Bagriya
-Hindustan Times There are more than 400 posts of high court Judges that lie vacant across the country. The Central government is believed to be the country’s biggest litigator, being a party in about half of the 27 million pending cases. The Calcutta high court on Thursday warned the Narendra Modi government of “appropriate action” if appointments of Judges were not made at the earliest. The country’s oldest high court has a...
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