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Month July 2018

Draft Data-Protection Bill Proposes Offline Verification For #Aadhaar; Strengthens UIDAI And Weakens RTI Provisions

By ARSHU JOHN |  VIPIN KUMAR / HINDUSTAN TIMES / GETTY IMAGES The Srikrishna committee appears to have used its mandate to formulate India’s foremost law on privacy and the protection of sensitive personal data as an opportunity to further insulate the… Continue Reading →

Delhi and Madras High Courts Allow Filing Tax Returns without #Aadhaar

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the Income Tax (I-T) Department to provide an additional button on its tax-filing portal to allow filing of tax returns without Aadhaar number. People without Aadhaar number can now file their income tax returns (ITR)… Continue Reading →

Swami Agnivesh On Lynch Mobs, Modi’s ‘Hate Mongering Campaign’ And Fake Saffron

“Junaid, Pehlu Khan, so many others have died, but he has never condemned these with sincerity.” By Betwa Sharma NEW DELHI — Arya Samaj leader Swami Agnivesh was attacked by a mob on July 17 in Pakur, Jharkhand, as he… Continue Reading →

This Pakistan Election, Hindu Dalit Women Brandish A Pencil For Rights

Ahmed Saeed Umer Bin Ajmal Camera: Ahmed Saeed and Umer Bin Ajmal Producer: Garvita Khybri Editor: Purnendu Pritam A rented vehicle stopped at the suburbs of Mirpur Khas city and a middle-aged woman, dressed in all white, stepped out of the car. She… Continue Reading →

‘We had no plans for violence’: Indian campaign against toxic smelter turned deadly

Jonathan Watts Fatima Babu’s decades-long campaign against a toxic copper smelter in Tamil Nadu says the cost of victory was too high For 24 years, Fatima Babu struggled to galvanise the citizens of Tuticorin in the southern Indian state of… Continue Reading →

India – National Health Stack: An Architecture Of Doom For Public, Data For Private Profit

The proposed Stack, a digital infrastructure to subsume all medical and healthcare activities in India, seeks to turn the entire health sector into a market (run by private players obviously) — while ensuring those at the edge actually fall off…. Continue Reading →

India- Cow vigilantes strike in Alwar again, kill youth #WTFnews

46 Lynched In Country Since April 2017 Dishank Purohit, Rajendra Sharma & Chetna Choudhry TNN Alwar/Mewat: The chilling run of lynch mobs continues. A 31-year-old Muslim man from Haryana’s Mewat district became its latest victim, in Rajasthan’s Alwar, late on… Continue Reading →

#SundayReading – It’s sexual assault, remember? #Vaw

POULOMI DAST+ T- Total recoil: Laura Dern (with Isabel Nelisse) plays the 48-year-old Jennifer Fox, who’s forced to re-examine the wreckage of her past kyle kaplan/ courtesy of sundance institute   –  KYLE KAPLAN/ COURTESY OF SUNDANCE INSTITUTE The Tale searingly drives… Continue Reading →

SC expresses concern over pothole deaths

Road Safety Committee Asked To File Report In Two Weeks TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday expressed concern over road deaths due to potholes, saying that such fatalities were more than the number of people killed… Continue Reading →

Ragpicker’s Son From Madhya Pradesh Cracks AIIMS Test In First Attempt #Goodnews

Asharam Choudhary gives credit of his success to his village doctors, who he says inspired him to take up the profession. Asharam Choudhary (second from left) with his family. DEWAS (MADHYA PRADESH): While his father picked up rags on roads of… Continue Reading →

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