Courts in India have become increasingly proactive about safeguarding the privacy and dignity of individuals across a range of cases, including in matrimonial and criminal matters.
Recognition of same-sex marriage will eliminate legal differences between men and women, which is essential to sustain protective discrimination on the basis of gender.
Govt had argued that only Parliament should debate matter of same-sex marriage, claiming issues like 'psychology' of child raised by homosexual couple would have to be considered.
While a 2017 judgment recognised the ‘right to be forgotten’ as part of ‘right to privacy’, online platforms argue it can have a bearing on right to information in some cases.
Arvind Kejriwal's Delhi govt needs to conduct a privacy assessment and find out what value does live streaming of classrooms add to children’s security.
India’s health data policies assume that enabling data sharing and interoperability will lead to desirable outcomes. But this approach comes with its own risks.
Verdict came on petition filed by former member of National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation. He sought disclosure of Covid vaccine trial data & stay on ‘vaccine mandates’.
A single-judge bench of Madras HC mandated installation of CCTV cameras in spas, in December. Last week, another single-bench of the HC said right to privacy makes it impermissible.
The Press in a liberal democracy has to be a forum for the expression of different points of view. It must not suppress, taint or adulterate news, wrote Sachin Sen in 1960.
Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.
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