BEWARE! Govt Can Intercept Messages

Messages sent through Internet-based messaging service providers such as Whatsapp, Signal, and Telegram, as well as those which are encrypted, are understood to be within the Act's ambit. IMAGE:......

Watching porn in private is not an offence, rules Kerala HC

Watching pornographic photographs or videos in one's private time without showing it to others is not an offence under the law as it is a matter of personal choice, the Kerala high court has held.......

Personal Data Protection

Ajit Balakrishnan offers a thinking person’s guide. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   Last week, I was sitting in the rear seat of my car, deeply immersed in my Kindle, reading......

Is WFH A Societal Shift?

...or just a Covid-era practice, asks Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   A friend who is the founder of a several thousand-person tech company in India recently......

BEWARE! Govt Can Intercept Messages

Messages sent through Internet-based messaging service providers such as Whatsapp, Signal, and Telegram, as well as those which are encrypted, are understood to be within the Act's ambit. IMAGE:......

Use of Indian languages key for increasing internet access in India: Report

Nearly 665 million Indians or 45 per cent of the rural population did not have access to the internet as of 2023. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Difficulty in understanding internet......

How Smart TV Is Changing India

The way video is being watched and monetised is changing.This is the first thing that stands out as the penetration of smart TVs continues to rise. IMAGE: Kindly note the image has been posted......

SIP wave hits record level, more to come

India’s mutual fund (MF) industry had barely any retail footprint when it completed 50 years in 2013. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com MFs had Rs 7 trillion in assets under......

He enriched the world with his magical voice

His songs were the anchor, the substratum, if you will, upon which life unfolded day after day, decade after decade -- across villages, towns, cities, and regions.Siva Sankar pays a tribute to S P......

Why Star India went all out for IPL media rights

Star India paid Rs 16,347.50 crore -- Rs 163.47 billion -- for the Indian Premier League's global media rights for five years.Rediff.com's Harish Kotian reports on why Rupert Murdoch's company went......