ASTROLOGY

Astrology is a pseudoscience that causes divine data about human issues and earthbound occasions by examining the developments and relative places of heavenly items. astrologer has been dated to at any rate the second thousand years BCE, and has its underlying foundations in calendrical frameworks used to foresee occasional movements and to decipher heavenly cycles…

FACEBOOK

Remember poking? Or the flower button which suddenly came & disappeared within a short time? You will be amazed to know that the company Facebook has completed 17 years ( but not yet 18). Facebook is still minor? Anyway, anybody who had seen the movie ‘social networking’ would know that Facebook started as just a…

WhatsApp Privacy Policy

The messaging app WhatsApp has been around for a long time; it launched in 2009 and was purchased by Facebook in 2014, but recently, it’s been gaining more popularity for the encryption features that make its chats more secure than others. According to the WhatsApp website, “From day one, we built WhatsApp to help you stay in touch with friends, share…

Social Contract Theory of Hobbes AND Locke

INTRODUCTION The term ‘State’ has been through multiple definitions by the best thinkers of the 17th century. The common elements between all of these definitions were the salient constituents that are indispensable for the consideration of a state, which are: Population, Government, Sovereignty and Territory.  Hence state can be plainly defined as an “Association of human…

Social Media and Freedom of Speech and Expression

What is Social Media-Social media comprises primarily internet and mobile phone based tools for sharing anddiscussing information. It blends technology, telecommunications, and social interaction andprovides a platform to communicate through words, pictures, films, and music.Social mediaincludes web- based and mobile technologies used to turn communication into interactivedialogue. Social media can be defined as any web…

MEDIA TRIALS

Articles 14 and 21 of the Indian Constitution provide the right to a fair trial and investigation. The same has been stated correctly in Zahira Habibullah Sheikh (v) State of Gujarat. In India, a criminal trial does not commence until the accused has been charged by a competent court. This right is routinely blocked by…

MEDIA LAWS: part I

The Indian perspective and its system of Parliamentary form of Democracy, it is true that, the Press and media is free but subject to certain reasonable restrictions imposed by the Constitution of India, 1950, as amended (“Constitution”). Before the impact of globalization was felt, the mass media was wholly controlled by the government(parliament), which let…