News and Views

When the Nazis discovered in the spring of 1943 the mass graves and the full horrors of the now-infamous Katyn Forest, a deluge of vile acts of “faking” events and news was soon to follow. Today, as fake news – facts twisted to suit a political end – goes unchecked in many countries, including India and the United States, let’s go back to history, for it does repeat itself, writes Chandan Nandy.

It is important to know your rights. While the SC held in May 2013 that the two-finger test on a rape survivor violates her right to privacy, HRW’s survey shows that it continues to be used across various states in India. This is because, in certain places, doctors take the survivor’s consent for the entire forensic examination as a whole – which may include the test – and the survivor herself may have little understanding of what tests the exam will include.

Although Sikhism is the fifth largest religion in the world, I still see people squint their eyes in confusion when I tell them that I am a Sikh. They are equally confused when told that despite identifying as a boy, I keep my hair long, as is customary for many practising Sikhs. My struggle with Sikhism can be pinpointed to a lack of awareness and mis-gendering, writes Kirit Minhas.

The spiraling out-of-control of China’s first prototype space station, Tiangong-1, with which the Chinese space agency has lost all contact, and its impending re-entry into the Earth’s surface, has provoked much conjecture about where the space debris will fall and how much damage it is going to cause.

Documents submitted by Ajay Bhushan Pandey to the Supreme Court show that from November to March, 5 out of 26 authentication attempts resulted in failure, including the one time he tried biometric authentication

The social networking platform has access to your data, which includes photos, text and search history as well. This has sparked the #deletefacebook movement, where many people have quit the platform due to privacy concerns.

In a rather rambling blog post on Monday, Mr Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood’s Angry-Young-Man-turned-angry-preacher-from-the-social-media-pulpit, let loose a diatribe against the seeming injustice done to him by the Indian Copyright Act – specifically, the concept of copyright terms – as per which he (and his heirs) would lose rights to copyright in his father, Harivansh Rai Bachchan’s works, by the year 2063.

Delhi fuel pumps have shifted to BS-VI petrol and diesel. However, most cars are only BS-IV emissions standards compliant or older, except for a few imported ones. Can your old car handle BS-VI fuel?

Three very unusual things are going to happen in Indian cricket this summer. First, at least three Indian players, and perhaps more, will play English county cricket, something which very few have done in recent years, given the round-the-year demands on Indian cricketers.