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Policing digital media, OTT content

The New Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Rules is no ordinary notification.

Sale of PSUs can boomerang if not well thought out

The government has made a strong pitch for privatisation of PSUs and monetisation of underemployed resources.

Mumbai cyberattacks: Power Play

Recent statements by persons in authority suggest that power outages in major cities like Mumbai can be the result of malware planted by hackers. What legal options exist?

Combating Covid surge needs more testing, tracking, tracing

The recent spike in cases is ample evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus has mutated. This, along with the lack of Covid-19 appropriate behaviour, has led to increased cases. Vaccination could stem that.

Whose Law? Which Order?

Even as the conceptions of the right to freedom to assemble and public order are under scrutiny in India, the Ugandan constitution shows the way ahead. Nowhere does it suggest that the ways of policing may downgrade dissent or adjudication of rights in conflict.

Cairn Energy case: Centre pads up for appeal

After the company won an international arbitration tribunal ruling against India for levying taxes retrospectively, the centre will contest all cases filed by Cairn in various international courts.

Breaking loose: The fight against fake news, propaganda lies in the hands of fearless journalists

By Inderjit Badhwar The Modi government is not very different from others, in India as well as across the world, in trying to scuttle press freedom by attacking it from public pulpits, trying to c...

PM Modi’s vaccine diplomacy

In the spirit of collaboration, the prime minister has suggested a special visa scheme for Indian doctors and nurses so that they can travel quickly within the sub-continent to help with the pandemic as well as a regional air ambulance.

Priya Ramani case: The Power of Truth

The verdict in the defamation case against journalist Priya Ramani by former minister MJ Akbar has resulted in one of the more enlightened judgments in recent times. It is a huge shot in the arm against the virus of male sexual harassment.

Free Speech and the Brandenburg Test

With Indian courts having to deal with cases involving freedom of speech and alleged acts of sedition, it is pertinent to examine the “Brandenburg Test”, a landmark principle based on the US Constitution.

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