-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Amid reports of US cyber intelligence units snooping on secret data worldwide, a PIL filed in the Supreme Court on Tuesday sought a direction to the Union government to take urgent steps to protect its official data stored on the internet and privacy of millions of Indians holding accounts on social networking sites. Petitioner Prof S N Singh said many government offices and officials use free...
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Who Manufactures Dirty Medicines?-Amit Sengupta
-Newsclick.in A few weeks back Fortune magazine and CNN carried a long online blog titled ‘Dirty Medicine' by Dinesh Thakur, a former employ of Ranbaxy, where he recounts how he came across several procedural and other lapses in the company's manufacturing facilities. Since then the Fortune blog has become one of the most widely circulated and commented upon business stories in the world. The story received attention as it came in the...
More »Rajasthan gives people right to pink-slip babus -Anindo Dey
-The Times of India JAWAJA (AJMER): The complaints, like always, were many. But the tables had been turned. At the receiving end were government officers as people crowded around demanding an explanation for being denied their right. It was their day of hearing. A motley group of villagers thrust 'pink slips' towards the sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) demanding to know why they were being denied the Re 1 a kg wheat promised by...
More »Mockery of pre-natal law -Ananya Sengupta
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The year before was tough but last year was tougher for the unborn girl child. According to the latest report of the National Crime Records Bureau, the number of gender-related foeticides leaped from 132 in 2011 to 210 in 2012 - a jump of nearly 60 per cent, making a mockery of Laws that ban pre-natal diagnostic tests. The corresponding figures for 2010 and 2009 were 81 and...
More »It’s turning blood red -Harsh Mander
-The Hindustan Times The audacious ambush and bloody massacre of more than two dozen political leaders and their security guards in Darbha valley of Sukma district in south Chhattisgarh, raises again profoundly important questions about the legitimacy of violence as an instrument to battle injustice and oppression. Resistance to injustice is widely endorsed as the highest human duty in most cultures, but the debate is about the legitimacy of deploying violence in...
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