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Anti-Indian prejudice may be caused by the island nation's bad experience with Invasions by Tamil Dynasties (such as the Chola dynasty), their ethnic tensions with Sri Lanka's Tamil minority, who are accused of loyalty to India, [64] India's alleged support and training of the LTTE [65] as well as massacres against Tamil Sri Lankan civilians ...
An annulment motion against the Information Technology (Inter-mediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011 moved by Member of Parliament (MP) P. Rajeev of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in the Rajya Sabha, was the first serious attempt by internet freedom activists to get the Information Technology Act, 2000 discussed and reviewed by the country's ...
Censorship in India has taken various forms throughout its history. Although de jure the Constitution of India guarantees freedom of expression, [1] de facto there are various restrictions on content, with an official view towards "maintaining communal and religious harmony", given the history of communal tension in the nation.
Caste-related violence in India has occurred and continues to occur in various forms. According to a report by Human Rights Watch: inhuman, and degrading treatment of over 165 million people in India has been justified on the basis of caste. Caste is descent-based and hereditary in nature. It is a characteristic determined by one's birth into a ...
Therefore, they were not treated like the savarnas (Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras). [ 7 ] Due to many caste-based discriminations in Nepal , the government of Nepal legally abolished the caste-system and criminalized any caste-based discrimination, including "untouchability", in 1963.
While early computer networks were operated since the late 1970s by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, the military, [9] along with general-use computer networks such as INDONET, NICNET, and VIKRAM, [10] the history of the Internet in India began with the launch of the Educational Research Network (ERNET) in 1986. [11]
The Asian Centre for Human Rights estimated that from 2002 to 2008, over four people per day died while in police custody, with "hundreds" of those deaths being due to police use of torture. [19] According to a report written by the Institute of Correctional Administration in Punjab , up to 50% of police officers in the country have used ...
The book was withdrawn from the Indian market by its Indian publisher, [56] [57] and the publisher Penguin India agreed to destroy all the existing copies within six months commencing from February 2014. [55] In October 2015, Catholic Church in India demanded ban on the play 'Agnes of God', an adaptation of American playwright John Pielmeier's ...