- Man uses anti-Modi remark made by friend in private Facebook chat as a reason to get him arrested
One more reason not to trust your Facebook friends. In Tamil Nadu, when Marimuthu sent his Facebook friend Thirumurugan a meme on Facebook Messenger criticising Vijay’s controversial dialogues in the movie Mersal, Thirum…
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- Tamilnadu activist charged with sedition for writing against the river-linking project
While in Tiruchy jail for 42 days for leading the Anti-Methane Project, T Jayaraman wrote a small 48-page book against river-interlinking, titled 'Nadhigal Inaippum Aarugalai Pidingi Virkkum India' (Interlinking of river…
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- 'Sex with minor wife is to be considered rape', rules Supreme Court of India: 3 Things to know
The Supreme Court ruling closes a loophole in Sec. 375 of "The Child Marriage Restraint Act" (passed way back in 1929) which people used to exploit the law.
1. For this law to be effective, like other laws, it require…
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- Man dressed as a shark fined under new anti-burqa laws in Austria
Lesson of the day: Don't bait the government. As part of an European trend of anti-burqa laws, Austria also has introduced such a law. An Austrian man seems to have decided to test the authorities' will and so he put…
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- Tihar Jail Facts
Tihar Jail is a 400 acre complex and is the largest in South Asia according to Wikipedia. 14,400 inmates. Only 20% are convicted criminals. Rest are undertrials (80 of whom have served five years and above). 50% of all c…
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- Hulk Hogan Settles With Gawker For $31 Million
And so does Shiva Ayyadurai, the man who claimed to have invented email,a nd Gawker debunked his claim. As part of the deal, the 'offending' article will also be removed. Ayyadurai will get $750,000.
A slashdot commen…
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- British Court Rules That Uber Drivers Are Employees, Not Businesses
At least in Britain for now, Uber cannot claim that its drivers are businesses and not regular employees, and thus it will have to pay the driver all the benefits that regular employees get - minimum wage, holiday pay, s…
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- New Exemption To The Digital Millennium Copyright Act Means Now You Can Hack Your Devices
Earlier, it used to be that companies such as Apple or car makers invoked copyright protection clauses in the old DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and forbidding buyers from tinkering with the devices they bought.…
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- How do we reduce our sugar consumption: Impose taxes on buying sugar, put up age restrictions (like Tobacco)
SInce, there is no nutritional need for food with added sugar, soon you will find sugar on the list of things disallowed for using food stamps for: joining the ranks of tobacco, alcohol,vitamins, pet foods, household sup…
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- A simple guide to India's New Copyright Law: What's Good, What's Bad
The Indian Copyright Law was last overhauled comprehensively in 1957, although it was updated five times in the '1980s and 1990s'. The new copyright bill was introduced in the Rajya Sabha this month. Overall, the verdict…
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- What will happen in Pakistan next?
Nitin at the Acorn blog analyzes what might happen next in the troubled country of Pakistan after General Musharraf has imposed Martial LawNext: Read 2500+ consumer guides to shopping, electronics, appliances, home servi…
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