-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Centre is in the process of drafting a legislation that will guarantee protection to individuals against breach of their privacy through unlawful means, minister of state for personnel Jitendra Singh informed Rajya Sabha on Thursday. The ministry of personnel has been working on a Right to Privacy law for some years now, with the first draft released in 2011. The law seeks to protect individuals...
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Where Will The Girls Go? -Archana Mishra
-Tehelka Last year’s Red Fort rhetoric has not been matched by action on the ground, with separate toilets for students remaining elusive as ever One part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech on Independence Day this year can safely be predicted: the reeling out of statistics to prove that the Swachh Bharat campaign is sweeping the nation. The cleanliness drive launched on 2 October, 2014, was announced from the ramparts of the...
More »Decoding the Aadhaar judgment: No more seeding, not till the privacy issue is settled by the court -Dr. Usha Ramanathan
-The Indian Express The challenge to the Aadhaar project is, of course, much more than privacy. Much, much more. The three-judge bench of the Supreme Court hearing the cases challenging the UID/Aadhaar project has decided that there “appears to be certain amount of apparent unresolved contradiction in the law declared by this Court” in relation to privacy as a fundamental right. It worries the court that reading the 1954 judgment in MP Sharma’s...
More »Privacy, a non-negotiable right -Ashwani Kumar
-The Hindu Whether it was required of the Attorney General to question the citizen’s Right to Privacy to defend the legality of Aadhaar is indeed questionable as the constitutional status of this right has been decisively answered in successive and lucidly articulated judgments This piece seeks to contest the Attorney-General’s somewhat startling assertion before the Supreme Court that Indians do not have a constitutional Right to Privacy. This is the background. Posed the...
More »Sanitary napkin vending machine at AGDC
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: From this academic session, students of Awadh Girls' Degree College (AGDC) have a new reason to feel at ease on campus. The college has become the first in the state to get a sanitary napkin vending machine on the college premises. "We had been approached by the company concerned around May. After sanction from the management committee of the college, we have installed the machine inside the...
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