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By no stretch of imagination can it be said that the Supreme Court has fixed a price for the privacy of Indians, least of all an MSP, the bone of contention between the Modi government and the striking farmers. But Chief Justice S A Bobde has given an indicative price, which is higher than the $2-3 billion that social media giant Whatsapp makes from its operations. “…people have grave concerns about their privacy. You may be 2 trillion 3 trillion company. But the privacy of people are more important than your money,” the CJI told the counsel for the social media giant, which is seeking to defend its policy of allowing a lower priority for the privacy of Indian users, compared to that of Europeans.

A defining moment has come. Free speech in India is being gagged through numerous illegal and legal means. At a time when everyone, from an individual to the United Nations, expected the government to end impunity for crime against journalists, the media is finding itself under unprecedented threat, both from the government and their supporters. What is at stake? The profession of journalism. What we are likely to lose? The very ability to remain informed in the age of ‘misinformation and disinformation’ spread online and offline. From where we can get information in all its dimensions if journalists are silenced? From nowhere.

The Ministry of Law and Justice had notified the Code on Wages, 2019. On August 8, 2019, it became the first of four labour-related codes of law—formulated to simplify, consolidate and update the existing labour laws—that received the President’s assent. These four codes replace the earlier twenty-nine laws related to various aspects of labour regulation.

Fatorda, Goa: When the Hero Indian Super League season was halfway through, few would have looked past Goa while making the list of semifinalists.

Vasco, Goa: Playing an all out attacking game, Hyderabad outclassed Kerala Blasters 4-0 in the Hero Indian Super League at the Tilak Maidan Stadium on Tuesday.

Pune: Tvesa Malik and Gaurika Bishnoi’s return to action for the fourth leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour will enhance the intensity of the competition as another new high of 38 starters will be achieved this week at the Poona Club Golf Course. The fourth leg in 2021, which will be combined with the nine legs held in 2020 for a consolidated Hero Order of Merit, has on offer Rs 10 lakhs.

Ahmedabad: Om Prakash Chouhan of Mhow, a five-time winner on the tour, went on a rampage to produce a course-record equaling nine-under-63 on day one of the Gujarat Open Golf Championship.

New Delhi: The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) on Tuesday named a 57-member strong squad for the ISSF World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun stage, scheduled to be held from 18-29 March at Dr Karni Singh Shooting range here.

Anyone in India against the ruling establishment is under threat of being booked under sedition and put into jail by the government. The spurt in sedition cases under Narendra Modi’s rule has put a large number of people under intimidation who are now avoiding expressing their dissent even on the wrongs committed by the government authorities. It is increasingly being felt that one should keep silent on government’s affairs or else face the consequences, even if one doesn’t commit any crime. People seem to be entirely on sweet will of the government, and any of one’s disagreement or dissent expressed in words or visual imageries can be treated as seditious, as if there is no other appropriate section in the India Penal Code or other laws relating to crime, and that has threatened even the birthrights of a human being.

On January 28, a group of U.S. Congressmen, led by former Green Beret and now Republican Party legislator, Michael Waltz, introduced into the Congress a new bill dedicated to smashing democracy in Venezuela, cumbersomely entitled the “Bipartisan Banning Operations and Leases with Illegitimate Authoritarian Regime (BOLIVAR) Act.”