Background India, currently, does not have a standalone law on data protection. The Information Technology Act, 2000 regulates the use of personal data. In the year 2017, Committee of Experts on Data Protection, chaired by Justice B. N. S....
Tags : Article , Data Protection , fiduciary , data principal , transfer of data
Introduction The third anniversary of the National Education Policy (2020) coincided with Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi inaugurating the 'Akhil Bhartiya Shiksha Samagam' at Bharat Mandapam in Delhi on 29th July 2023.....
Tags : Article , China , Higher Education , Foreign Universities , NEP 2020
The BJP’s articulators’ understanding of the UCC doesn’t seem to go to the deep, sordid historical origins of the UCC. After the 1937 Act was passed, the Muslim League emerged as a Muslim mass party and began challenging the unchallenged Gan....
The 1937 Act, the joint strategy of the British and the League, was driven by political expediency rather than a desire to enforce Islamic Sharia. Less than a week after the opposition parties met in Patna to oppose him, Narendra Modi threw a huge....
Tags : Article , Politics , Sharia , UCC , British Raj
But answers to such questions, important as they are, will hardly capture the deeper vision that underlies Modi’s Sengol mission. Why did Narendra Modi choose to recall the August 14-15, 1947 midnight history of Sengol now? Why did he time it....
Tags : Commentary , Constitution , post-independence , Sengol , New Parliament building
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history,” said George Orwell. The latest Indian example of how Orwell’s dictum works is the obliteration of the Sengol ceremony from the history ....
Tags : Commentary , ancient India , Constituent Assembly , Sengol , Obliterate history , George Orwell
Atmanirbhar Bharat requires much more than just local sourcing- and that local sourcing itself is a function of availability of indigenous technology. This remains the most critical gap in the realization of Atmanirbharta which is so necessary....
Tags : Commentary , DRDO , Defence industry , Atmanirbhar Bharat , procurement , Critical Technology
Every year, the world celebrates “World Environment Day” on 5th June. Led by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), it is the largest global platform for environmental public outreach and is celebrated by millions of people across the....
Tags : Commentary , Climate Change , Nature , Environment , adaptation , globe , behavioral changes , plastic pollution
Abstract: The ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ Scheme was launched for the protection and education of girl children. Its outcome remains sub-optimal with disproportionate amounts being spent on media advocacy rather than on health and educati....
Tags : Article , Mission Shakti , Media , Gender gap , CSR , BBBP , CAG , girl child , sex ratio at birth (SRB) , State Schemes
The issue of forced conversions from one religious denomination to another has been brought into fresh focus when the Supreme Court recently observed that such conversions were “dangerous” and that they were “seriously against the interest of t....
Tags : Article , Dalai Lama , Conversions , Kerala High Court , Niyogi Committee , proselytisation