-The Telegraph Narendra Modi will be “Romancing Print” on March 2 but some printers, unwilling to be wooed by the Gujarat chief minister, have dropped out of a conference where he will be chief guest. “The print and publishing industry cannot play Goebbels to Modi,” Indu Chandrasekhar, the founder of Tulika Books, wrote to the organisers of the conference in Delhi being held to exchange ideas on digital printing, motivating the self,...
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RIL gives half of documents sought by CAG
-PTI Reliance Industries has provided half of the documents sought by CAG and promised to give most of the remaining when the auditor returns to audit its spending on the flagging KG-D6 fields. RIL provided half of the documents to the team of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) during their three-week stay at the company's office at mumbai beginning January 9 and wrote to it that the rest, barring a small...
More »164 items blocked online in just 2 days, mostly on court orders-Shalini Singh
-The Hindu Chaudhuri on IIPM and J&K Police on Afzal Guru approached courts seeking takedown of online material An investigation by The Hindu into the recent blocking of online content related to Arindam Chaudhuri’s IIPM and the hanging of Afzal Guru shows that on February 14 and 15, the Department of Telecom, on orders from various courts, issued as many as three different lists to Internet service providers (ISPs) and telecom service...
More »'Put curbs on Facebook, mobiles to protect girls' -Rosy Sequeira
-The Times of India mumbai: The Dharmadhikari panel, in its third interim report to the state government, has suggested placing restrictions on social networking sites as they "corrupt adolescents". A copy of the January 16, 2013, report with 31 recommendations was submitted to a Bombay high court division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Anoop Mohta on Thursday. The committee, headed by retired high court judge Chandrashekhar Dharmadhikari, was constituted...
More »Govt refuses info on Kasab's mercy plea -Himanshi Dhawan
-The Times of India Government cited the Constitution to deny information on the mumbai terror attack convict Ajmal Kasab's mercy petition. The ministry of home affairs rejected an RTI application filed by activist Venkatesh Nayak saying it was "privileged information" under article 74(2) of the Constitution. The Rashtrapati Bhawan went a step further to say that the information is not held in a "subject-wise manner." Nayak had in January sought information for...
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