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Group of Experts Report on Privacy proposes a detailed framework that serves as the conceptual foundation for the Privacy Act for India. It identifies key privacy issues, while keeping in view the international landscape of privacy laws, global data flows and predominant privacy concerns with rapid technological advancements.

Shehrbano Taseer takes an insider’s look at the 15-year-old girl who may finally turn the tide on extremism.

Two online petitions in defence of Sunila Abeysekera, Dr Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu and others in Sri Lanka

In a ground breaking judgment – the first of its kind in Sri Lanka – which will especially interest proprietors and editors of newspapers, photographers and the media – a three judge bench of our Supreme Court recognized the "Economic Rights" of a newspaper journalist to nine exclusive photographs taken by him. Several years later these photographs had been published in a newspaper without his consent, without his knowledge and without any acknowledgment. The journalist was awarded one million rupees in damages although the claim was for Rs.2.5 million.

Banerji argues that the De-politicization of of Indian women’s oppression stems from India’s own feminist movement. She asserts thatthe globally prominent Indian feminists, who are at the van-guard of India’s feminist movement have insisted to the world that the state of women in India cannot be interpreted in light of a political power struggle, like in the west, but need to be accepted and dealt with in a cultural context.