Infosys Science Foundation honours six researchers with awardsThe winners came from diverse fields such as areas of accessible healthcare and diagnostics, inclusive economic and social policy design, a...
07 Jan, 2023, 09.44 PM IST
Facebook's Oversight Board overturns firm's decision to remove a post in first Indian caseAnnouncing its decision in the first Indian case on Friday, social media giant Facebook's Oversight Board said it has overturned the compan...
13 Feb, 2021, 06.34 AM IST
Facebook's Oversight Board announces first set of five case decisionsThe cases covered matters in Asia, Europe, North America and South America and Helle Thorning-Schmidt, former prime minister of Denmark and...
29 Jan, 2021, 11.57 AM IST
Facebook's Oversight Board accepts case on Donald Trump's indefinite suspensionThe board said in a statement that Facebook has also requested policy recommendations from the board on matters dealing with suspensions of...
22 Jan, 2021, 03.26 PM IST
Facebook to add 20 more members to Oversight body: Nick CleggClegg said that the “most effective and intelligent approach” to regulation was one that does not seek to try and micromanage every post an...
16 Dec, 2020, 10.15 AM IST
Oversight board may look into how Facebook failed to ban outfitHate speech a concern all over the world, says board member Sudhir Krishnaswamy.
15 Dec, 2020, 09.37 AM IST
Facebook's Oversight Board begins accepting appealsThe US-based social media giant can also refer cases to the board for a decision on whether content should remain or be taken down from Fac...
22 Oct, 2020, 11.17 PM IST
Supreme Court cancels NLSIU Bengaluru entrance exam NLAT-2020While cancelling the NLAT-2020 entrance exam, the apex court also directed that admissions in all 22 National Law Universities (NLUs) be co...
21 Sep, 2020, 11.51 AM IST
Political slugfest: Congress-BJP trade barbs over WSJ report on FacebookThe massive political row was sparked by a report in the Wall Street Journal last week which alleged that senior Facebook executives had op...
16 Aug, 2020, 09.00 PM IST
India’s diversity makes content moderation toughIndia had 504 million active internet users – who logged onto the Web at least once in the last one month – at the end of November 2019, ac...
08 May, 2020, 07.42 AM IST
Oversight Board will take on hardest and the most disputed cases: Brent Harris, FacebookThe board, which will have its own website, is housed under a trust, which the social media giant says is independent of Facebook and is en...
07 May, 2020, 08.26 PM IST
Sudhir Krishnaswamy, ex-PM of Denmark among members of Facebook's Oversight Board, can override Mark ZuckerbergBrent Harris, Facebook’s director of governance and global affairs had stated in January that the company has been laying the groundwork fo...
07 May, 2020, 12.39 PM IST
NLSIU calls off protest against delay in the appointment of new Vice-ChancellorStudents started the protest after a leaked minutes of the meeting claimed that Krishnaswamy was appointed as the VC of the University but ...
23 Sep, 2019, 10.20 PM IST
What amounts to sedition? Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis finds himself in yet another controversyIn late August, the government issued a circular with guidelines to be followed by the police while making arrests on sedition charges.
13 Sep, 2015, 06.13 AM IST
BS Patil panel recommends splitting up BBMP can reduce corruption in BengaluruWard panels will report to a small municipality with a population of a million.The municipality will oversee functions like inter-ward road...
23 Feb, 2015, 11.18 AM IST
- Illegal billboards sprout after BBMP stopped permission about 6-7 years ago
The BBMP standing committee on taxation and finance, too, has passed a resolution to remove all hoardings -authorized.
23 Jan, 2015, 10.49 AM IST
Poke Me: Why the Supreme Court is not the Bulwark of the Constitution it is made out to beThe performance of the Indian legal system and the Supreme Court is unlikely to improve unless we develop a new empirically rooted approach...
03 Jan, 2013, 05.01 PM IST