Category: Law, Legal & Justice

** India largest source of government information requests, says Twitter

It accounts for 25% of global volume: transparency report

India is the single largest source of government information requests during the second half of 2020, accounting for 25% of the global volume, as per the biannual Twitter Transparency Report released on Wednesday.

Globally, Twitter received 14,561 such requests for 51,584 accounts in the six-month period from June to December 2020, of which 3,615 requests for 7,762 accounts were from India. For India, this is an increase of about 38% from the first half of the year when the number of such requests stood at 2,613.

** Explained: Who was Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair, who took on the British in their own courts

Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair was known for being a passionate advocate for social reforms and a firm believer in the self-determination of India.

Johar announced that his film will “unravel the legendary courtroom battle” that Nair fought. The film is adapted from the book, ‘The case that shook the empire’ written by Nair’s great-grandson Raghu Palat and his wife Pushpa Palat in 2019.

** Indian-origin Justice becomes first person of colour to be nominated to Supreme Court of Canada

Justin Trudeau announced Justice Mahmud Jamal’s nomination on Thursday to replace the retiring Rosalie Silberman Abella, the first refugee and first Jewish woman to sit on the top court. 

** Twitter appoints interim Chief Compliance Officer for India

Twitter has an estimated 1.75 crore users in India, as per data cited by the government recently.

The micro-blogging platform has stated on its website that India is an important market for the company and is among the countries in which it is piloting a new approach of building an in-market team to “locally tailor” its global product to the needs of the region.

** Explained: How the US will recover remains of 400 of its soldiers missing in India

Gandhinagar-based National Forensic Sciences University has tied up with US’s Department of Defense to recover and identify the remains of over 400 missing US military personnel in India during World War II. How will they go about doing so?

** Centre asks private news channels to display four new helpline numbers

In a letter to all private TV news channels, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said the helpline numbers should be run as a ticker or in any other appropriate way at periodic intervals

The Centre on Sunday asked private TV news channels to display four new national helpline numbers for the benefit of citizens as part of the COVID-19 awareness initiative.