-Hindustan Times U-turns on net neutrality, porn ban and now the draft encryption policy. This is the third time in as many months that the Centre has had to take a step back in the face of a strong public outcry against ‘draft policies’ relating to technology and the digital consumer. For a government that is committed to a Digital India and transformative powers of technology, the series of missteps point to...
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‘District courts will take 10 years to clear cases’ -Rukmini S
-The Hindu Of the two crore pending cases, two-thirds are criminal At the rate at which cases were disposed by India’s district courts last month, India could get rid of all pending cases in ten years, an analysis of new official data shows. Six states, however – Bihar, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, West Bengal and Jammu & Kashmir – disposed fewer cases than were filed during the month, indicating that at this rate,...
More »Government exempts WhatsApp, social media from purview of encryption policy
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Shortly after a controversy erupted over government's proposal to investigate on every message that an individual will send via WhatsApp, SMS, or Google Hangouts, the Department of Electronics and Information Technology clarified in a draft that social media websites and applications will be exempted from the purview of the Encryption Policy. According to the draft posted by Deity, there are certain categories of encryption products that...
More »Justice denied: Two charts show the enormity of the crisis of India's justice delayed system -Mayank Jain
-Scroll.in There are more than 2.7 crore cases pending in district courts across the country and 60% of them are more than two years old. Will you stand in a queue that is likely to take 466 years to clear up? That’s how much time it will take the Delhi High Court to clear up its backlog of pending cases. Unfortunately, the situation is not so much better in lower level courts...
More »Interim stay on cancellation of Greenpeace’s registration
-The Hindu In a breather to Greenpeace India Society, the Madras High Court on Wednesday granted an interim stay on a Home Ministry order, which cancelled the Foreign Contributions (Regulations) Act, 2010 registration given to the international NGO. When the plea filed by Greenpeace came up for hearing on Wednesday, which challenged the Home Ministry order on September 2, Justice M.M. Sundresh granted an interim stay on the order and ordered for...
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