Chandrasekhar, Aseem Trivedi nominated for Index Freedom of Ex...

New Delhi, May 16: After a long aching era of arresting people from different parts of the country for the "heinous" crime of posting objectionable content on , from tweets about ministers to funny illustrations about the way our country is ...

"One thing that has sustained cartoon is that it is least prone to manipulation, least censorable and a least influenced form of expression," said cartoonist Hemant Morparia. Mr. Morparia of Mumbai Mirror, along with cartoonists Keshav of The Hindu, ...

: the day that changed actor Dhanush's life; the day his song Kolaveri Di was released online. The composition got more than five million views on YouTube and became the reason for flash mobs across India, Australia and Europe to break into a dance.

While laws governing the Internet in India are in need of urgent reform, the inherent deficiencies in the system, including lack of awareness among law enforcement and poor understanding of the medium, must be tackled, researchers participating in a ...

PHOTOGRAPHER Zanele Muholi, who documents the lives of black lesbians, has been honoured internationally at the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression awards. Muholi won the Index Arts award in London. She had been nominated alongside Russian ...

Zanele Muholi has won the Freedom of Expression Index award over punk group Pussy Riot, filmmaker Haifaa al Mansour and cartoonist Aseem Trivedi. Zanele Muholi. (supplied) Our Coverage More Coverage The Index Awards, which are part of the Freedom of ...

The recent cyber attack on the DRDO website by suspected Chinese hackers may have rung alarm bells in the country's security establishment, but it's also on alert about the hacktivists who increasingly target government websites in protest against ...

The Bombay High Court today asked the Maharashtra Government and the Centre to file reply to a petition challenging the validity of section 66 A of Information and Technology (IT) Act, which penalises sending of "false and offensive" messages through a ...