Modi govt's claim that everything – CAA, NRC, Internet shutdowns, police excesses – is a 'domestic' issue and therefore of no concern to the outside world is simply not credible.
Services were suspended for locations including walled city areas of north and central Delhi districts, Mandi House, Seelampur, Jaffarbad, Mustafabad, Jamia Nagar, Shaheen Bagh and Bawana.
People's Daily, Chinese Communist Party’s official newspaper, says necessary regulation of the internet is a reasonable choice for sovereign countries.
The Modi government imposed internet shutdowns in Kashmir, Assam and Uttar Pradesh this year. From 2012-2017, India lost $3 billion because of these shutdowns.
In a country where unemployment is at a historic high, the national anxiety isn’t about jobs — it’s about reach. Aspirations have shifted from employment to engagement, from careers to content.
A phrase the judiciary sometimes uses is “ This shocks the conscience of the Court “. 2. Remarkable that nothing that has happened to all the people of a state for close to half a year passed that standard. The statement of general principles, as in the present case, could have been made within a fortnight, for it merely reproduces the existing judicial views on the subject. 3. The use of the term “ Magistrate “ in the context of Section 144 is noteworthy. An officer in charge of law and order in a small area is expected to invoke its highly restrictive provisions – essentially a colonial construct – in a case where he apprehends imminent danger. Can 144 be applied to the entire state of Uttar Pradesh by a single broad brush order, whose only object is to prevent peaceful expression of dissent. 4. There was a lot of material before the apex court, going beyond what may have been stated in the petition. Lordships read newspapers and magazines, watch TV, browse the net.
A phrase the judiciary sometimes uses is “ This shocks the conscience of the Court “. 2. Remarkable that nothing that has happened to all the people of a state for close to half a year passed that standard. The statement of general principles, as in the present case, could have been made within a fortnight, for it merely reproduces the existing judicial views on the subject. 3. The use of the term “ Magistrate “ in the context of Section 144 is noteworthy. An officer in charge of law and order in a small area is expected to invoke its highly restrictive provisions – essentially a colonial construct – in a case where he apprehends imminent danger. Can 144 be applied to the entire state of Uttar Pradesh by a single broad brush order, whose only object is to prevent peaceful expression of dissent. 4. There was a lot of material before the apex court, going beyond what may have been stated in the petition. Lordships read newspapers and magazines, watch TV, browse the net.