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Children have fundamental right to access internet, can't impose blanket ban on its use: SCThe Supreme Court affirmed the right to access the internet as fundamental for children. It ordered the creation of a national database to ...
Supreme Court seeks Centre's reply on social media curbs for kidsThe petition, filed by Emerald Heights International School, Indore, and its director Siddharth Singh, seeks comprehensive safeguards for c...
SC seeks replies from Centre, NCPCR on PIL for framework to protect children from social media risksThe Supreme Court has sought replies regarding a petition from Emerald Heights International School. The petition demands a national framew...
US PERM Freeze: Indian H-1B workers could lose crucial time to secure Green Cards as sponsorships stallOn October 8, the US Department of Labor announced the suspension of green card processing for eight companies, causing significant worry a...
US states sue AI giant OpenAI, saying its popular chatbot is hurting children and deceiving adultsEight US states have initiated lawsuits against OpenAI, alleging violations of consumer protection laws on various grounds. The accusations...
Who is Sean Gardner? US gymnastics coach sentenced to 90 years in prison for filming young gymnastsSean Gardner pleaded guilty to placing a hidden camera in a bathroom at a gymnastics studio in Purvis, Mississippi, between December 2017 a...
Montana mother spends nearly $12,000 annually on therapies for her son. Reveals autism and apraxia care becomes a financial burden; now gives home-schoolingKatherine Walter made the decision to homeschool her son Will due to gaps in the support offered by public schools. The family dedicates a ...
Woman applied for 130 shares in Adani Wilmar IPO, bank entered only 65; she sought Rs 40L compensation; gets relief in consumer commissionThe woman had earlier appealed in the district commission which held that she did not qualify as a consumer and that the complaint was not ...
Child marriage: Progress made, but millions of girls still at risk in India, say expertsIndia still exhibits troubling child marriage rates, with one in three child brides globally residing in the country. Significant improveme...
'Will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities': Mamdani as anti-ICE protests eruptNew York City Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdon called for an immediate end to ICE operations following a shooting incident. An ICE agent shot a ma...
Startup of the Year Groww bets on scale; Qcomm sparks festive credit surgeHappy Thursday! Groww is betting its newer businesses will take a bigger slice of its income. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispa...
MeitY planning strict protocol for swift takedown of CSEAM contentThe standard operating procedure (SOP) will be modelled on a similar protocol created earlier to tackle the spread of non-consensual imager...
Apple's Tim Cook praises EU over efforts to protect children onlineApple executive chairman Tim Cook on Tuesday pledged the US giant would protect children online and praised the EU's efforts to ensure mino...
Keeping AI models under control: When an agent causes harm, who bears the blame?If an AI agent goes rogue, who do you hold responsible— the agent, the LLM developer or the human? asks EY partner Shivaprakash Abburu. Exp...
Texas mom Cibelle Savella kills 4-year-old daughter and herself after custody ruling; husband and babysitter were inside $1.1 million home when shots rang outIn a deeply tragic incident, Texas mother Cibelle Savella fatally shot her four-year-old daughter Vivian before taking her own life, follow...
Gujarat notifies UCC, mandates live-in relation registrationThe Gujarat Uniform Civil Code, 2026, will "govern and regulate the laws relating to marriage and divorce, succession, live-in relationship...
President Murmu gives assent to Gujarat Uniform Civil Code, state becomes second after Uttarakhand to enact UCCGujarat has officially enacted the Uniform Civil Code after presidential assent received in October. This new law establishes a unified leg...
Courtney Stodden, married at 16 to 50-year-old Doug Hutchison, lauds Governor 'Daddy Newsom' after California bans child marriage; here's her journey from a child bride to social activistCourtney Stodden has campaigned for the end of child marriage following her own experience of such a marriage. California Governor Gavin Ne...
US to restrict visas for officials who obstruct parental child abduction casesThe United States plans to introduce new visa restrictions targeting individuals involved in international parental child abduction cases. ...
Husband of 16-year-old Muslim girl faces POCSO case after hospital visit during her pregnancy, Delhi High Court orders marriage under personal law cannot protect himDelhi High Court has refused to quash a POCSO case against a man who married a girl aged 16 years and three months under Muslim personal la...