Like many board games that were developed in India, of which chess is perhaps the most important and famous, the game of “snakes and ladders” too emerged in this country a long time ago. With its balancing of snakes that pull you down and ladders that take you up, this game has been used again and again as a metaphor for life, telling us about our fortunes and misfortunes, and...

-The Hindu The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notice, returnable in four weeks, to the Odisha government seeking a report on the alleged destruction and burning of 30 houses of Dalits by some upper caste persons in Lathore village of Bolangir District on January 22. The Commission was acting on a complaint. It is alleged that after the incident, the affected Dalits families were kept in temporary camps. The complainant had...

Google and Facebook do have the right to freedom of speech and expression but they are not above the law, the Delhi High Court said on Thursday. “They are not above the law and their Rights are to be determined under the laws of the land,” Justice Suresh Kait said, hearing a petition that sought to be heard in the matter on the ground that a sanction to prosecute the websites...

-PTI   All 21 websites, including Google and Facebook, summoned earlier by a magisterial court, are liable to face prosecution for being privy to the hosting of inflammatory contents on their webpages, the Delhi High Court was told today.  The counsel for one Vinay Rai, who had moved the trial court for prosecution of various websites, including social networking sites and web search engines, argued before a bench of Justice Suresh Kait that...

Opposing the West Bengal government's proposal to do away with the right to strike of its employees, major Central trade unions have decided to support the government employees' unions in their agitation for protection of their Rights. Describing the comments of State Labour Minister Purnendu Basu as unfortunate, Gurudas Dasgupta, general secretary of All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) and MP of the Communist party of India (CPI), said the right...