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Disabilities act: End the certification raj

The bureaucratisation of the recognition of a disability not only makes us in India lag in the international scales of human development, but also makes a person hesitant to approach the judiciary and the bureaucracy to determine their access to health care and welfare

People participate in Champions with Disability marathon, Mumbai, January 20, 2019 (Kunal Patil/HT Photo)
Published on Jun 20, 2022 12:27 PM IST
BySrikant Parthasarathy & Amirthalakshmi R

Data protection bill: Decoding the penalty clause

This is one piece of legislation that India should get right by all means, lest we legalise snooping and profiling by the government

The Indian Penal Code does not have extra-territorial application as a general principle. In short, the competent authority (government) would like to know what is being stored as data by the data controller. It would have discretion in the determination of what data is private and what is not. (HT Photo)
Published on May 17, 2022 03:10 PM IST
BySrikant Parthasarathy and Amirthalakshmi R

Can India sign a migration partnership?

India is not part of the refugee convention but a member of the United Nations, which has given the subsidiary treaty of the “Refugee Convention”. So can asylum seekers enter India? We do not know yet

India is not part of the refugee convention but a member of the United Nations, which has given the subsidiary treaty of the “Refugee Convention”. So can asylum seekers enter India? We do not know yet.
Updated on Apr 18, 2022 08:06 PM IST
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