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The petitions filed by Carnatic music singer T M Krishna, Digital News Publishers of India, former Editor of The Hindu, N Ram and a senior journalist sought to declare the recently notified Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, as ultra vires of the Constitution and the parent Information Technology Act, passed in 2000.

The Madras High Court today granted 10 more days to the Centre to file its counter-affidavit in response to a batch of PILs or pleas challenging the new Information Technology (IT) Rules.

Tabla maestro Bickram Ghosh is one of the most well-known names in the world of Indo-fusion music.Having performed the world over with the greatest names in classical music, he is also one of the pioneers of experimental fusion music.He is also ...

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SAINT PAUL, Reunion Island – In its premier edition, Reunion Island’s Indian Arts Festival officially kicked off today with a colorful start at Teat de Plein Air in Saint Gilles with a program lin SAINT PAUL, Reunion Island – In its premier edition, Reunion Island’s Indian Arts Festival officially kicked off today with a colorful start at Teat de Plein Air in Saint Gilles with a program line-up that celebrated the diverse facets of Indian culture, mainly through music, dance, and cuisin...

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CHENNAI: The Madras high court on Wednesday made it clear that it would not defer hearing of pleas challenging the validity of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, in the absence of any stay on the HC proceedings by the Supreme Court. The first bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy made the observation as the Centre informed the court that a petition has been filed in the SC to transfer similar pet...

Dubai: As a college boy, Indian expat Mundarath Muralikrishnan Nair, known as MMK Nair, was fascinated by aeroplanes as they whizzed past like a speck in the sky. As he wished with all his heart, he ended up working in an airport and later running a flying institute, thus becoming part of five glorious decades of aviation in the UAE. Serving in the finance department of Dubai Airport from its inception, Nair had a remarkable growth in his career till he retired as the Director of Finance after ...

Government seeks transfer of cases challenging IT rules to Supreme Court SECTIONS Share Synopsis Several such petitions have been filed in high courts across the country, including Bombay, Delhi, Madras and Kerala. Some of these have been filed by affected parties such as journalists and digital publishers. These rules have been widely panned by critics as draconian. Agencies A similar plea has been filed by Carnatic musician TM Krishna. Yet another plea in the Bombay HC was filed by a journali...

In 2019, when Rajna Swaminathan, acclaimed mrudangam artist – among a handful of women playing the mrudangam professionally – composer, and scholar, released her debut album, “Agency and Abstraction,” music connoisseurs took notice: she created new sounds from the instrument – which she started playing when she was just five – breaking away from tradition. In her music and research, according to her website, the Indian American musician “explores the undercurr...