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At House dissolution hearing, advocates prod bench to look to legislative intent Kathmandu Post
Nepal, Jan. 18 A month after President Bidya Devi Bhandari dissolved the House of Representatives on the recommendation of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, the Supreme Court has finally started hearing on the core content of the writ petitions against the move.
Though the hearing began on December 23 on as many as 13 petitions that have challenged the House dissolution, arguing that the move is extra-constitutional, the focus had been on the composition-whether the Constitutional Bench should hear the writs or they should be sent to an extended full bench.
In its latest privacy policy that comes into effect next month, WhatsApp Messenger says “you have the right to access, rectify, port, and erase your information, as well as the right to restrict and object to certain processing of your information”. But don’t get too excited. This is from the policy as it applies in Europe, where the General Data Protection Regulations of the European Union has stringent penalties for violation of user privacy. In India, one has no such option. WhatsApp is part of the $750 billion tech giant Facebook, Inc. headquartered in the US.
WhatsApp has now made it mandatory to agree to user data being shared with other group companies (including popular social media platforms Facebook and Instagram) if one is to use the service after February 8. But what everybody seems to be missing is that it was already sharing the data. The biggest difference from the existing policy (effective since July 2020) is that, so far, WhatsApp gave users the choice to op
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Shadan Farasat December 30, 2020 00:00 IST Pray, Speak The Truth, Milords! outlookindia.com 2021-01-07T14:57:45+05:30
A habeas corpus is a petition that is filed in either a high court or the Supreme Court to seek the production of a person who cannot be traced or one believed to be in wrongful custody of the State authorities or some other entity. It is the primary mechanism in our criminal justice system to ensure that personal liberty of individuals is not sacrificed without the authority of law. It is the effective application of this liberty that differentiates a despotic regime which is free to detain persons at will with one which is governed by rule of law.
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