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India leveraged blackouts to crush farmers' protest and Kashmiris, according to digital rights organisation Access Now APP March 05, 2021 India topped the list for the most internet shutdowns in 2020 globally for the third consecutive year, a new report by digital rights and privacy organisation Access Now said. India leveraged blackouts to crush the nationwide farmer’s protest and the Kashmiris, the report said. It pointed out that India shut down the internet more than any other nation at 109 times out of a total of 155, recorded worldwide. India was followed by Yemen with six instances....

Representative image NEW DELHI: Nearly 70% of cases of internet shutdowns globally happened in India in 2020, according to a new report by Access Now, a global non-profit that works on digital rights and online freedom. Out of the 155 instances of internet disruptions, 109 were recorded in India, followed by Yemen with six instances. The report, “Shattered Dreams and Lost Opportunities,” listed at least 29 countries which intentionally shut down or slowed the internet during 2020 despite “increased demand due to the coronavirus”. “India imposed the lion’s share of internet shutd...

Updated Mar 04, 2021 · 02:37 pm A demonstrator displays placards and shouts slogans during a protest against the new citizenship law, in New Delhi. | Reuters India recorded the highest number of internet shutdowns in the world in 2020, showed a report by digital rights and privacy organisation Access Now on Wednesday. Of the total 155 internet shutdowns globally, India alone accounted for 109, according to the report. The report put India at the top of the list of 29 countries that restricted their citizens’ access to internet in 2020. This is the third consecu...

  The increasing intolerance of the ruling dispensation at the centre towards legitimate dissent is a reflection on the state of democracy. This has been borne out by the arrest of journalists, activists, lawyers, poets, and students, trolling of public intellectuals, and hounding of public-spirited media organisations. The government, using its ever-present spectre of policing, is wielding imprisonment, suspicion, and ­direct violence as its strategy to deal with dissent and protest. The government has become more intolerant, particularly of the farmers’ protests, because these represent...

Exclusive BBC director-general Tim Davie (top right) has been sent a letter of formal complaint after Dr Sharandeep Singh's appearance on the broadcaster THE BBC’s director-general has been urged to launch a “full editorial investigation” into how the corporation “broadcast conspiracy theories” around the ongoing farmers protest in India. Charandeep Singh, on behalf of the charity Sikhs in Scotland, has written to BBC boss Tim Davie to raise a formal complaint, saying a representative of their charity was asked to appear “under false pretext”. Sikhs in Scotland say their ...