The Pakistan National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Information Technology (IT) on Thursday passed a controversial cybercrime bill that industry leaders and civil society members have been protesting against
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Protest against Pakistan’s proposed cybercrime bill; threatens civil liberties on the pretext of security
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Bangladesh: Expanding influence of Islamists among the youth | Mamun Rashid
16 April 2015They are not madrasa students being overdosed by their backdated teachers and deprived of the basic possible amenities of life. Bangladesh is seeing a rise in soft-speaking, IT aware, and articulate youths joining the bandwagon. Madrasa students may be joining similar forces in Afghanistan or in the Middle East, but what do we do with these new emerging youths? They don’t like the way this government is working.
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India: As Children Go Hungry PM Modi Buys Fighter Jets In France | Jean-Pierre Lehmann
15 April 2015960 million Indians live on less than $2 a day. Reading the data is one thing; seeing the consequences, as I did recently driving through the slums on the outskirts of Jaipur, is heart-wrenching. Their plight could not be worse. Rafale jet fighters are about the last thing they need!
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India: Press Release from Sabrang Trust - 15 April 2015
15 April 2015Following the letter from the Gujarat Government to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, a team of four senior officers from the Monitoring Unit of the FCRA department, New Delhi visited the registered offices of Sabrang Trust and Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) for an inspection of the accounts and records of both the trusts.
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[Audio] The Fabric of Biological Science in the 21st Century: An Indian cell biologist’s perspective | Satyajit Mayor
15 April 2015Satyajit Mayor, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, ‘The Fabric of Biological Science in the 21st Century: An Indian cell biologist’s perspective’, 8 April, 2015.
