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PPOs save placement-record as Christ Law’s 2nd graduating batch hosts fewer law firms
by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 18, 2012 — last modified Jun 18, 2012 08:33 AM — filed under:
The number of recruiting law firms visiting Christ College of Law Bangalore slumped to two this year, but the second batch graduating from the college made it up in terms of pre placement offers (PPOs) to secure 21 total jobs, one short of the college’s debut recruitment record.
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Anonymous joins protests against Internet shutdown in Kashmir
by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 13, 2013 — last modified Mar 01, 2013 04:46 AM — filed under: , ,
Hacktivist group Anonymous joined thousands of others to protest the shutdown of internet services in Kashmir for the fourth consecutive day by authorities after the hanging of Afzal Guru, a key accused in the Parliament attack case.
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Blog Entry Research Initiative: Women in India's IT Industry
by Jadine Lannon — published Feb 28, 2013 — last modified Mar 06, 2013 10:31 AM — filed under:
CIS has begun a brief research project which will examine indicators of female economic empowerment in the IT industry in India. Though the gathering of quantitative and qualitative data from the six largest publicly-traded Indian software companies, we hope to provide insight into state of female employment in one of the most important and rapidly growing economic sectors in the country.
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Online Abuse of Teen Girls in Kashmir Leads to Arrests
by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 08, 2013 — last modified Mar 06, 2013 03:51 AM — filed under: , ,
Online abuse and a fatwa aimed at a rock band of Muslim teenage girls in Kashmir have led to arrests and a threat of a lawsuit.
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Censorship and sensibility in India
by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 06, 2013 — last modified Mar 06, 2013 04:09 AM — filed under: ,
The past few weeks in India have seen films, an all-girl rock band, a fashion show, a Booker prize-winning novelist and a reputed academic become targets of harassment, legal action or threats of violence.
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Stop Press Carousel
by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 22, 2013 — last modified Mar 06, 2013 04:27 AM — filed under: ,
The silent blocking of URLs by the DoT assaults freedom of expression.
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UID has no legal sanctity, says lawyer-activist
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 03, 2013 — last modified Mar 11, 2013 06:08 AM — filed under: ,
‘Iris scanning adopted for the UID project is flawed as the iris keeps changing’
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Blog Entry Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill (April 2012): High Level Concerns
by Elonnai Hickok — published Mar 12, 2013 — last modified Jul 12, 2013 03:36 PM — filed under: , ,
In 2007 the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill was piloted by the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, with the objective of regulating the use of DNA for forensic and other purposes. In February 2012 another draft of the Bill was leaked. The February 2012 Bill was drafted by the Department of Biotechnology. Another working draft of the Bill was created in April 2012. The most recent version of the Bill seeks to create DNA databases at the state, regional, and national level.
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Blog Entry Unique Identification Scheme (UID) & National Population Register (NPR), and Governance
by Elonnai Hickok — published Mar 14, 2013 — last modified Apr 30, 2014 05:03 AM — filed under: , ,
This post examines the UID, NPR and Governance as it exists in India. The background note gives a summary of what is the NPR, the legal grounding of NPR, its objectives, and the information which could be collected under the NPR. The post also throws light on the UID, its objectives, process of enrollment in UID, how UID is being adopted by different states in India, and finally the differences and controversies in UID and NPR.
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Blog Entry Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012 Analysis
by Jeremy Gruber — published Mar 19, 2013 — last modified Mar 19, 2013 09:53 AM — filed under: ,
Jeremy Gruber from the Council for Responsible Genetics, US provides an analysis of the Human DNA Profiling Bill, 2012. He says that India’s updated 2012 Human DNA Profiling Bill offers largely superficial changes from its predecessor, the Draft DNA Profiling Bill, 2007.
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