How journalists in Kashmir dealing with restrictions

In the absence of any medium to send the news reports across the country or outside, some journalists would send their reports on pen drives through flyers at the airport. IMAGE: Journalists wait......

Census to be launched on April 1

To create a comprehensive identity database in the country, the government will launch the 2011 census on Thursday to cover 1.2 billion residents of the country living in all 35 states and Union......

The right to be forgotten online

It is only gradually dawning on us that some of the information we have trustingly shared with commercial service providers can be used against us when we apply for a job or when we apply to......

ISIS: The Kerala Connection

ISIS's online propaganda radicalises Muslim youth in Kerala.A revealing excerpt from Stanly Johny's new book, The ISIS Caliphate From Syria to the Doorsteps of India. Illustration: Uttam......

Local domain names to widen internet reach

The Right to Information (RTI) Act of India, 2005, advises public authorities to provide as much information as possible to the public through various means of communication. It mandates the use of......

Indian firms may fall short of web addresses soon

The web is running out of addresses. Internet Protocol version 4 or IPv4 is the existing protocol that is used for Internet addresses. However, according to the Internet Assigned Numbers......

Travel industry gets new online domain

A new online domain for the travel industry is open for business. Airlines, theme parks, restaurants, tourism offices and others in travel and tourism are eligible for Web sites and e-mail......

The Net needs better governance

This week Tunisia hosts a "World Summit on the Information Society". Some 50 or so heads of state or government and a couple of hundred corporate leaders are expected to be part of the 15,000 or so......

'I felt dirty about it'

Before Michael Winterbottom's A Mighty Heart opened at the Cannes Film Festival, Paramount Vantage delivered a screener of the film to Asra Nomani's home in Morgantown, West Virginia. She watched......

We want cricket, not cellphone commercials

It's a scary world in there,' Colin Hanks says in Untraceable, an undeniably interesting thriller I watched last night. An FBI sidekick to Diane Lane, he's talking about the Internet, equal parts......