Advisory on unlawful online content
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MeitY has issued an advisory directing intermediaries and social media platforms to prevent hosting, sharing, or transmission of obscene, indecent, sexually explicit, paedophilic, or otherwise unlawful online content; directing to remove them within 24 hours.

Supreme Court child pornography
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The Supreme Court observed that the term “child pornography” is a misnomer that fails to capture the full extent of the crime as it can lead to a trivialization of the crime, as pornography is often seen as a consensual act between adults. It, hence, proposed a new term for the offence.

Securities and Exchange Board of India
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The provision made vide 2024 Amendment Regulations would not apply to associations through a specified digital platform.

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The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020 received Presidential Assent on 24-09-2020. The Farmers (Empowerment

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Supreme Court: In the bid to gather information from intermediaries regarding the names of the originators of any message/content/information shared on the

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Supreme Court: Stating that Google India, Yahoo India and Microsoft (I) Pvt. Ltd., in the name of intermediaries, cannot put anything that