Omar Abdullah's NC, BJP join hands in J&K House to vote out PDP's 'anti-bulldozer' land billJammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s National Conference (NC) and the BJP on Tuesday joined hands in the assembly to block the ...
29 Oct, 2025, 02.31 PM IST
Omar Abdullah rejects PDP’s land rights bill; BJP calls it a check on ‘land jihad’Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah rejected a private member's bill aimed at regularizing properties on state land. The opposit...
29 Oct, 2025, 07.59 AM IST
Mehbooba Mufti urges cross-party support for key bills in J&K assemblyPDP president Mehbooba Mufti has urged J&K legislators from multiple parties to support her private member bills addressing land issues, da...
01 Mar, 2025, 08.48 AM IST
PDP launches signature campaign to garner support for complete ban on liquor in J&KThe People's Democratic Party (PDP) initiated a signature campaign in Srinagar to support a bill for banning liquor in Jammu and Kashmir. L...
22 Feb, 2025, 01.42 PM IST
Reworked Personal Data Bill may relax rules on data localisation“The internet is global and has data as its underlying basic element. For a robust internet innovation ecosystem, there has to be (a) flow ...
10 Oct, 2022, 06.00 AM IST
Government looks to make online world more accountable through new laws: Ashwini VaishnawThe minister said that a new version of the Data Protection Bill and proposed Digital India law is in the works. "What we are looking at is...
05 Sep, 2022, 10.41 PM IST
Global IT bodies express concern over data protection BillThe recommendations “run counter to global standards” for data protection and competition, the associations – whose members include Microso...
02 Mar, 2022, 06.00 AM IST
Personal Data Protection Bill can seed uncertainty for businesses, reduce competitivenessScattered with open-ended definitions over critical data and data localization requirements, provisions under the current PDP Bill elevate ...
06 Dec, 2021, 10.41 AM IST
Tech firms may take data bill to court if House adopts it verbatimA top internet executive who spoke to ET on the condition of anonymity said the clause of social media classification as publishers “will s...
03 Dec, 2021, 06.00 AM IST
Personal Data Protection Bill should not regulate non-personal data, says government panelThe panel said in the report that it would be appropriate to amend the provisions of the PDP Bill to ensure that it does not regulate non-p...
31 Dec, 2020, 08.53 AM IST
Align Health Data Policy to Data Protection Bill to avoid overlaps: Experts“It is worrying that the policy is being presented before the Personal Data Protection Bill has become legislation. This could create issue...
30 Sep, 2020, 01.05 PM IST
JPC on data bill to meet on Friday after 4 months; govt officials to brief the committeeThe committee last sought stakeholder feedback in February and wrote to the companies and institutions asking for a presentation from them ...
14 Jul, 2020, 06.56 PM IST
Final touches to draft E-commerce policyThe Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) is examining the Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill and aspects of non...
21 Mar, 2020, 12.12 AM IST
Government wants to pay for data, but companies not buying ideaOfficial says acquisition details of non-personal, anonymous data will be made public; cos raise privacy, IPR concerns. Currently, a separa...
02 Jan, 2020, 07.47 AM IST
Tech industry sees two pain points in data protection billThe PDP Bill proposes voluntary verification of users and sharing of anonymised data by firms with the govt.
06 Dec, 2019, 08.10 PM IST
MeitY may not include E-commerce data in privacy billMeitY may reject DPIIT proposal to include ecommerce data in the proposed Personal Data Protection Bill.
29 Aug, 2019, 10.10 PM IST
- Panchayats: Peoples Democratic Party, National Conference divided over a Bill
The state law has distinct features like Panchayat courts but has serious limitations on the reservations for women and lack of an elected ...
01 Oct, 2012, 06.08 PM IST