Opinion
February 26, 2020
Normalizing ‘Dowry’ in Manipur in the Name of Custom
Lifestyle
February 22, 2020
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The month of October marked the rise of global protests. Most of these anti-government protests are scattered around the Middle-East, Africa, Latin Americas and Asia. In Lebanon, a large population joined the peaceful non-sectarian protest because of the inability of the government to find solutions to the economic crisis plaguing the country since the past year. This mass protest led to the resignation of the country’s Prime Minister. Though the country is divided into Shia, Sunni…
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After a delay of about a year, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India published ‘Crime in India 2017’. The report comprehensively analyzes the incidences of crime across the country in the corresponding year 2017. Although there are many categories of crime under the report, this article will focus on the rate of cyber crimes in India. According to the NCRB report, the number of cyber crime cases in…
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According to the Report by AccessNow, India is leading in the number of Internet Shutdowns in the world. After the removal of special status to Jammu & Kashmir last month, the Government of India imposed severe Internet shutdowns as a form of preventive measures. Pakistan has been criticizing this move of the Indian government as a form of human rights violation. Yet, frequent Internet shutdowns have become a feature of the Pakistani establishment too. We…
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TripAdvisor published its inaugural ‘2019 TripAdvisor Review Transparency Report‘ on September 17. The report provides insight into the moderation processes and key data for reviews submitted to the platform around the world between January and December 2018. 100% of reviews submitted to TripAdvisor pass through an advanced moderation process. In 2018, TripAdvisor received 155 million content submissions from users. Of those, 66 million were reviews. 53% of these reviews where for locations in Europe, 23%…
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In recent research conducted by Comparitech across 120 cities worldwide, New Delhi has been positioned as the 20th Most-Surveilled cities in the world. Eight out of the top 10 most-surveilled cities are in China. Chennai and Lucknow are the other two cities from India getting through top 50 (Chennai in 32nd rank and Lucknow in 40th rank). The other Indian cities in the ranking are as follows: Pune in the 51st rank. Hyderabad in the…