The urgent need to conduct contact-tracing to slow the spread of the Covid-19 infection has brought out strange ironies. In both Kerala and Uttar Pradesh, the governments have chosen to allow the scru...

The Centre’s move to ban Tiktok and 58 other Chinese apps is a temporary measure and the companies will get the opportunity to submit their clarifications. Under Rule 7 and 9 of the IT Rules, t...

The possibility of the Indian subsidiaries of the Chinese companies which own the banned 59 apps closing down looks remote. Legal experts are of the view that though the Centre has the powers to bloc...

For some years now, the growing challenge to journalism has come from the increasing use of predictable laws. These are the Sections relating to sedition and criminal defamation in the Indian Penal Co...

A little-known Indian IT firm offered its hacking services to help clients spy on more than 10,000 email accounts over a period of seven years.New Delhi-based BellTroX InfoTech Services targeted gover...

Scientists in India have identified 12 previously unknown states of the human brain that they believe serve as the fountainhead for all neural activity — from what helps crack tricky math puzzles to...

1. The consumption-driven growth storyAfter decades of being ignored and written-off, India is finally on every global investor’s radar as the fastest-growing large economy that will drive the world...

Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday alleged that vested interests were helping Rohingya refugees to settle in Assam.Sharing statistics of Rohingya detected in the state from 2009 to 2019, Sar...

IT industry association Nasscom on Wednesday broke with tradition and stopped the practice of forecasting annual growth.Instead, it revealed the details of a survey of chief executives that showed the...

The government was forced into damage-control mode on Monday after news broke about efforts to amend the IT Act and get online platforms to track down “unlawful’’ content and break the end-to-en...