Whenever violence flares up across the country, the first action by governments of all shades is clamping a ban on the internet. Social media and messages over the web do peddle fake news with the potential to destabilise an already delicate situation. But can that be an argument to just unplug the internet? In India, […]
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Rarely would a person addressing a nationally televised press conference have used the word “forwarded” as frequently, but under fire over the apparent inaction of the National Commission for Women (NCW) in a case involving the barbaric sexual assault of two Kuki women by a mob in Manipur, that’s exactly what national women’s panel chief […]