Recent developments in India’s space policy including Mission Shakti, India’s first anti-satellite weapon testing is indicative of the states growing concern into contemporary threats to the state; India is ranked among the 15 least cyber-secure countries in the world from the list of 60 countries. To this end,… Read More

By Gunjan Chawla (This piece first appeared on The Leaflet) As we approach the final phases of India’s election to the 17th Lok Sabha, national security has emerged as one of the most debated issues of the season. On the one hand, the ruling party has portrayed the… Read More

Varsha Rao Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter have been hauled up by many an authority for their role as conduits in the dissemination of ‘fake news’, including the United States Senate and India’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology. In the run-up to the Lok Sabha Elections,… Read More

Nidhi Singh and Gunjan Chawla (The piece was first published in the Leaflet) Section 126 of the Representation of People Act, 1951 (RPA) imposes a 48-hour ban preceding polling — on public meetings and processions in connection with the election, the display or propagation in a polling area of “any… Read More

Nidhi Singh and Gunjan Chawla (The piece was first published in the Leaflet) As polling day approaches, political advertisements have become omnipresent–offline and online. Their influence cannot be denied. Broadly, it can be exerted in two ways – through the purchase of political ads on social media and through the… Read More

Varsha Rao With the publication of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s much-awaited report on Russian interference in the United States Presidential Elections of 2016, the threat of hacking and misinformation campaigns to influence elections is taking centre-stage yet again. Closer to home, the discussion has become more pertinent than ever before. In a… Read More

Tomorrow marks one month of the successful completion of Mission Shakti- India’s first Anti-Satellite (ASAT) testing. The test has received mixed reactions from the international community. In this post, we address the three main concerns arising from the ASAT test. First, we examine the technological aspects of ASAT weapons… Read More

The Election Commission (EC) released the dates for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections on the 10th of March, and with this announcement, India has officially entered the home stretch of the 2019 elections. With the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) now in effect, the political parties are bound… Read More

Less than a year ago, the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security (the ‘UN GGE’, for short) famously came to a deadlock in its determination of how international law applies to cyberspace. Comprising… Read More

Celebrating One Year of the Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India Judgment August 24, 2018 6.00 pm onwards organized by Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations & Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi at Conference… Read More