Feb 11, 2015
News Bits - 11 Feb 2015
- Facebook on Tuesday announced a tie-up with Reliance Communications to launch Internet.org in India, gives subscribers of the Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications who have Internet-enabled handsets free access to 38 Websites – a mix of news, music, education, weather and health sites.
- The Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday swept to power with 67 seats in the 70-member Delhi Assembly, leaving only three to the Bharatiya Janata Party and nil to the Congress.
- PIL filed against AIB Roast programme , Court seeks Centre's view on
[Ed] The long road to justice
The recent International Court of Justice (ICJ) verdict absolving Serbia and Croatia of crimes of genocide in the 1990s Balkan wars underscores the political sensitivities involved in holding sovereign states liable for serious atrocities. The litigation dates back to 1999, when Croatia alleged genocide by Serbia during the 1991-1995 war over its secession from the former Yugoslavia. In the bombing campaign, over 12,000 civilians were killed; many thousands were
The Hindu News - 11 Feb 2015
Joins hands with Reliance Communications. Move spurs neutrality concerns
Facebook on Tuesday announced a tie-up with Reliance Communications to launch Internet.org in India, bringing to the land of a billion-plus people a service that the social media giant says helps affordable Internet access but whose critics disapprove its restrictiveness.
India now becomes the sixth destination for Internet.org, a Facebook-led initiative envisaged about a year-and-a-half back with six other founding partners, including Samsung and Qualcomm. The service has already been
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