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PTI sues Centre, calls digital media code state’s ‘weapon’ to control media

India’s largest news agency has become the tenth party to challenge the rules, but the Delhi HC refused to grant interim protection to any publisher This is the tenth lawsuit by a news organisation against the Digital Media Code of… Continue Reading →

A “Leap” toward Humanity’s Destruction

The world’s richest medical research foundation, the Wellcome Trust, has teamed up with a pair of former DARPA directors who built Silicon Valley’s skunkworks to usher in an age of nightmarish surveillance, including for babies as young as three months… Continue Reading →

Gender Bias in Medical Sciences

By Vaidehi Gautam Preference of one gender over another, based on various forms of stereotypes, is known as gender bias. It can either be intentional or unconscious, and is subject to one’s social conditioning with respect to perception of different… Continue Reading →

Hindutva groups take ‘Hindu Bank’ to Kerala; many call it polarisation tactic

Even as the cry for ‘Nidhi banks’ exclusively meant for Hindus grows louder in Kerala, experts say these are companies and not banks under the Nidhi Rules of 2014 and cannot be compared to Islamic banking on technical grounds Shahina… Continue Reading →

Action Alert – Affirmation of Feminist Principles- Sign-on Statement

JUNE 30, 2021 Women, feminist, LGBTIQ+, and trans-led organizations are coming together to reaffirm what we believe are core feminist principles and to amplify the positions that many feminists have historically taken in relation to understanding gender, sex, and sexuality. The affirmation… Continue Reading →

91 organisations working on Farmers’ Rights, and on Digital Rights of citizens express grave concerns on Central Government’s Agri-Digitisation proposals

30th June, 2021 91 farm organisations and organisations working on digital rights of citizens express grave concerns with regard to the Government of India’s proposals on agri-digitisation, put forward in the form of a consultation paper. They demand that the… Continue Reading →

The Pandemic, Welfare States And The Need For ‘Food For All’

Title: The Pandemic, Welfare States And The by : Isheeta Sharma & Europa Doley The Right to Food campaign which began in 2014 is an informal network of people and organisations coming together to achieve the goal of the right… Continue Reading →

Caste, Policing and Technology: The Making of Criminality

By- Isheeta Sharma & Vaidehi Gautam Internet Freedom Foundation hosted a session titled ‘Settled Habits, New Tricks: Casteist Policing Meets Big Tech in India’ on June 18 with Ameya Bokil, Avaneendra Khare, Nikita Sonavane, Srujana Bej and Vaishali Janarthanan; chaired… Continue Reading →

No pension for 5,000 Bhopal gas tragedy widows for 18 months

Endless wait for Rs 1,000 a month; victims unable to protest due to COVID-19 pandemic   By Ruby Sarkar Published: Tuesday 15 June 2021  The women widowed in Bhopal gas tragedy stage a protest seeking pension. Photo: Ruby Sarkar At least 5,000… Continue Reading →

Kerala: Into the wild to attend online classes

The aim is to climb atop the temporary tree houses (erumadom) parents have built for their children in the forest because that is the only way to get internet connectivity and attend classes. Published: 14th June 2021 09:51 AM   KANNUR: Around… Continue Reading →

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