Times Now has surprised many fans on Twitter after the channel today adopted a tough stand against patriotic lawyers who attacked Jawaharlal Nehru University students union president Kanhaiya Kumar and the media that they feel support “anti-nationals”. Today, on the second day of trial, Kumar was attacked for the second time by self-described nationalist lawyers, […]
The Supreme Court has appointed a five-member lawyer delegation to visit Patiala House today and submit a report on the happenings inside the court complex on the same day. The move comes after the guidelines issued by the apex court failed to stop violent lawyers who again attacked Kanhaiya Kumar, the president of the students […]
The Delhi High Court today dismissed a petition seeking an order for an inquiry by the National Investigation Agency into student protests in Jawaharlal Nehru University. The High Court dismissed the plea after noting that the Delhi Police’s inquiry cannot be faulted so soon and it cannot be assumed that the Delhi Police is incompetent […]
Punjabi writers have returned the highest number of awards and honors under the ‘award wapsi’ protests against intolerance, numbers from the ministry of culture revealed. The second highest number of Sahitya Akademi (Literary Council) awards were returned by Hindi writers, with six of them choosing to show their protest this way. In all, a total […]
Snapdeal, one of India’s top three e-commerce firms, has distanced itself from a comment made by actor Aamir Khan on the perception that there has been a rise in intolerance in India in recent months. Khan, who features in many of Snapdeal’s ads, had said that his wife is starting to have some doubts about […]
Several activists of ‘Kiss of Love’ movement in Kerala, including its head Rahul Pasupalan, have been arrested by police in Kerala. According to reports, Pasupalan and his wife have been arrested under various sections of the IT Act. According to journalist Dhanya Rajendran, the arrest of Rahul Pasupalan is not linked to online pedophilia, as […]
Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg is holding a ‘town hall’ in IIT Delhi today. You can watch the live streaming of the town hall event by clicking here. Facebook has come under criticism from the Indian online community for trying to push its version of limited Internet to ‘underprivileged’ people in India. The IIT […]
NDTV and TV Today said they had received show cause notices from the ministry of information and broadcasting for airing programs on the suitability of the death penalty for Yakub Memon, who was hanged to death last week. “The Company firmly believes that it has not violated any law while covering the said news and […]
India has lifted the ban on pornography that had been imposed over the weekend, and had led to a furore over invasion of personal freedom. According to Indian IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, only child pornography will remain banned and the government will soon issue a notification to this effect — TV channels reported. Pornography […]
The government of India has asked internet service providers to block 857 porn websites, including youporn.com and porntube.com. The move comes barely a month after the Supreme Court of India refused to ‘ban’ porn, saying that it could be construed to be a violation of the liberties guaranteed by the Constitution of India. Supreme Court […]
This batch of writ petitions filed under Article 32 of the Constitution of India raises very important and far-reaching questions relatable primarily to the fundamental right of free speech and expression guaranteed by Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution of India. The immediate cause for concern in these petitions is Section 66A of the Information Technology […]
All India Bakchod (AIB) fans may be raving against remarks by Censor Board member on the content of their ‘roast’, but Google’s Youtube has just showed that it can play a bigger censor. According to ‘Kerala Freethinkers Forum’, Youtube has blocked a movie that they uploaded for “violation of Youtube guidelines”. According to The Hindu, […]
Members of the Malayalam rationalist group Freethinkers were pleasantly surprised today as world renowned physicist and campaigner for spreading scientific education, Lawrence M Krauss, lent his voice to those opposing the shut down of their group. The Freethinkers Facebook group has been shut down several times by Facebook, reportedly because religious people were offended by […]
A number of students and young people were arrested by the police for holding Kiss of Love protests in Calicut even as they were opposed by splinter right wing groups. On the face of it, there seemed to be 200 protesters in favor of Kiss of Love in Calicut, more than in Kochi. A smaller […]
SpiceJet has denied media reports that the Director General of Civil Aviation asked the company to refund the amounts for bookings made beyond 30 days from now. Several media, including the Times of India, reported that the company has been told to refund the bookings made beyond 30 days. SpiceJet has thousands of bookings stretching […]
Liberals and conservatives faced off each other at the Marine Drive walkway at Kochi in Kerala over whether two people have the right to kiss each other in public. Things got violent at an event called Kiss of Love which was organized via Facebook after BJP’s student wing ransacked a restaurant alleging that a couple […]
In a significant judgment, a Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India R.M. Lodha has ruled that truth can be a valid defence in contempt of court cases, and dismissed a case filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy against journalist Arun Shourie. In his petition filed in 1990, Swamy had requested contempt of […]
The last two days have seen media barons pour scorn and outrage on Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party for suggesting that the media is corrupt. The Editors Guild, a kind of industry lobby, seemed to be shaken by Kejirwal’s statement that an inquiry would be ordered into corruption in media and guilty journalists […]
In an unprecedented act, the entire staff of Kerala’s oldest TV channel have struck work, stopping the transmission of Indiavision TV. The staff put up a statement on the website of the television channel, which has since been pulled down, accusing the management of violating several codes, to the detriment of the channel. The statement […]
Firstpost.com was born due to the global financial crisis of 2008, Raghav Behl, founder of the Network18 group said. Speaking at the annual FICCI Frames conference, Behl said his group was preparing to launch a newspaper in 2008 when the global financial crisis struck. “Then we thought, why go into an old medium…but we wanted […]
