New: IT parliamentary committee on wants MIB to introduce Broadcasting Bill in parliament at the earliest. In Jan submission to the committee, for the first time, MIB acknowledged the existence of the 2024 draft.

From @aditi_[email protected]

Honestly, instead of bringing starling to India, Jio should start making their cell service better for indoor coverage. Also, with how much pollution Starlink causes, I would never use it.

The Climate March 2025, organised by COHAS and led by the Public Transport Forum saw hundreds rallying from Chatth Ghat, ITO, calling for urgent policy reforms to ensure better, more accessible urban mobility.

More than 400 citizens, including young people, workers, students, activists, members of various organisations united to demand a robust, accessible and affordable public transport system for Delhi. They believe that a strong and affordable public transport network makes cities more inclusive, climate friendly and prevent working-class communities from being pushed to the margins.

Lets submit a India entry - [email protected]

We will submit a song (by replying to this post) - and others should vote (upvote or downvote) any existing submission they would like to too - the most upvoted song across all three India communities (listed below) will be considered as our submission. Song requirement is basically - Something released in last 1 year (basically Jan 2024 to March 2025) which is openly accessible (that is not paywalled, so anything on youtube works, and so does non premium spotify, patreon, etc. stuff)

Crossposted to - [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

A copy of the body of the post linked for details

Hey everyone!

I hope you’ve had a wonderful year and are ready to discover new music, because the Lemmyvision song contest return now for its second edition! For those not in the loop, read below to learn more about this Lemmy Event:

TL;DR

From right now and until April 1st, discuss with your country’s community on Lemmy about which song to send to the contest. Submit the song in this community by makign a new thread. On April 2nd, voting will begin, where you will rank your favourite songs in a form. Any song not submitted by this date will not be featured. On April 8th, results of everyone’s favourite songs will be published. You can use [email protected] for any question, this will be the community for updates and results, make sure to subscribe if you’d like to stay in the loop. What is Lemmyvision?

Lemmyvision is inspired from Eureddision (itself a reenactment of the Eurovision song contest) which was held on r/europe some years ago, and based on the participation of national communities / instances and the delicate musical taste of their members (you!).

Every country/community is welcome to participate! The contest follows the rule of “national languages only” but regional languages are welcome too, if your community would like to feature a song in a regional language of your country, that’s awesome. The aim is to promote different languages and cultures from around the world, to share more between our online communities across Lemmy, and discover songs from lesser known artists.

Last year, an exception was made for the programming.dev Lemmy community to participate by sending a song related to their main interest (they sent a video game soundtrack), if your community does not represent a specific country or language but wants to participate by sending a song related to your instance center of interest, you’re welcome to do so! For example, lemmy.blahaj.zone could send a song composed by a Queer person!

How it works:

This post, and the [email protected] community will be open until April 1st, and I will start promoting the event on various instances and communities. Lemmy communities who want to participate have the responsibility to gather its members and vote on a single song to send for the contest. On April 2nd, the songs will be locked in. A playlist will be created to allow you to listen to all of the submitted songs, and communities will be invited to vote on their favourite. The voting is estimated to last for about a week. On April 8th the results will be published, with a ranking of everyone’s favourite songs!

I don’t expect countries with a “small” population to be accurately represented on Lemmy, so no worries if you don’t have a community and are just a small group of people, or if your country is not even on Lemmy but another platform (Kbin and whatnot), I can make exceptions, just reach out!

Regional languages are welcome as well! Basque, Welsh, Cherokee… You’re welcome to promote a non official language instead!

Song submission:

Each Lemmy community is responsible for their own organization. Only one (1) song is to be sent to represent your community. If the song contains vocals then it must be in (one of) the official language(s) of your choice, or a regional language of your choice. Songs must have been released within the last year (after January 1st, 2024). Songs must not be international hits[1]. Submit your songs in their own thread in this community Verification will just require a link to the discussion thread created within your community, to ensure it’s a community (not a single person’s) decision. [1] this is to prevent drama that happened in the past on Reddit, where Germany sent a Rammstein song and obviously won. It’s up to my own appreciation of what international hit means, because it’s hard to measure (metrics on youtube or spotify aren’t the same), but I’m pretty lenient, just ask me if you’re not sure, better to discuss it than argue

Voting:

Voting will be done through a form created on tally.so. I will set up the form near the end of the month, and share it in a new announcement post when the time has come. If you’re worried about privacy, there will be no questions about personal data, and last year I deleted the form and its results a week after the event was done. On Federation:

I don’t discriminate based on instances, if your account is not on the same instance as your community, that’s totally fine. Additionally, if you’re on another Fediverse/Activitypub platform and would like to participate, and you’re able to federate with your representing Lemmy community, you’re welcome to join us, I’d just like to keep organization within Lemmy so it’s easier to track participations.

Would you like to help?

Last year went really well, and I managed to handle the thing alone. Programming.dev even helped with setting up the playlist! If you’d like to help in any way, please feel free to reach out, I’d love to have as many people as possible involved!!

Cheers!

Video title: D.Y. Chandrachud on the Ayodhya verdict, Article 370, and judicial transparency | BBC News India Video description: India’s former Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud sits down with BBC journalist Stephen Sackur to discuss landmark cases and his tenure. From the abrogation of Article 370 to the Ayodhya verdict, Chandrachud explains the reasoning behind some of his decisions.

Reliance Jio chairperson Akash Ambani had earlier asked the government to update the draft of the National Data Centre Policy so that Indian data remains within Indian data centres.

At least one lawyer present in the consultation on Tuesday said that the localisation mandate is ultra vires (exceeds the scope) of the parent act. The DPDP Act allows the Centre to blacklist territories outside India where personal data cannot be transferred.

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has now authorised ‘head of police department’ of Union Territories to intercept calls and messages under the Telecommunications Act, 2023.

By @aditi_[email protected]

I have started using privacy respecting software as much as I can for a while now. Particularly social media. I started with deleting my reddit account, and then one by one deleted twitter, instagram and all. The one thing I couldn't leave was whatsapp. I just cannot seem to leave it. Not just friends and family, but outside too. My mentor just use whatsapp for all types of communication except for some absolutely formal documents, where he uses email. Otherwise he doesn't seem to respond to email.

So, my question: If you have made the switch, have you convinced your peers to also make the switch?

As part of its unwavering commitment to regulating personal choices, trampling on liberty and invading privacy, the Department of Moral Surveillance, Kingdom of Uttarakhand, is inviting applications from eligible candidates for the post of Registrar (Live-In Relationships). This role will bring cohabiting couples into full compliance with the newly introduced Uniform Civil Code (UCC).

https://archive.ph/MtSSA

The current avatar is a graphics created by "India in Pixels". The graphics describe what country is more representative of an Indian state, population wise. The graphics probably has a copyright (though I tried to reach out to the India in Pixels team about their copyrighted for the pictures in their website but they haven't replied). Other than that, it isn't really representative of the community and it's purpose.
I know the community is not very active, but I would still like to see a change that shows that the admins have faith in it.

Maybe you can find a more appropriate graphics in Wikimedia commons or someplace similar with a graphics with a more permissive license and something that fits the theme of the community properly.

Basmati rice — the region’s “scented pearl” — was probably once exported to the Roman Empire, historians say, and is today in growing demand in the United States and Europe. Yet its origins have never been more divisive or its future more uncertain.

Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Shishodia, both lost their seats though ex-CM Atishi Marlena/Singh has won on her seat.

BJP's victory is expected to clear the existing friction between Delhi govt and Govt if India as same party is now ruling the center and the state, easing alignment of decisions.

Google Maps has been blamed for fatal accidents in India.An Indian politician recently suggested to the Parliament that the country should develop homegrown mapping solutions.Digital mapping experts believe these incidents are not specific to Google Maps and instead reveal systemic challenges to mapping Indian roads.

In July 2024, Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal announced that his ride-hailing company had transitioned away from Google Maps to its in-house navigation platform — a move that he said would save $1 billion. On X, he encouraged developers to “#ExitGoogleMaps” for Ola Maps, promising a year’s worth of free access. By December, Google, too, had introduced a range of price cuts for Indian developers.

Google should not be held liable because it is “not a public utility,” Arnav Gupta, who has worked as a product engineer at companies including Meta, JioCinema, and Zomato, told Rest of World, referring to the police complaint from the November 2024 accident. Much of the onus of keeping firms and citizens in the loop falls on local government agencies, he said.

Just wanna say, https://osm.org/ is an amazing map that is open and entirely created from efforts of millions of users. If any part of the map is missing or incorrect, you can just fix it.

On January 24, 2025, the Supreme Court of India delivered a groundbreaking verdict affirming the Bombay High Court’s ruling on intellectual property loss compensation under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, and its 1995 Rules. The order underscores the need for legal interpretations to evolve with a dynamic and changing society.

A US military plane is deporting migrants to India, marking President Donald Trump's first crackdown on Indian immigrants after assuming office, Reuters reported quoting an official on Monday.

https://archive.ph/P2pk2

What are your opinions on it?

“Data privacy issues regarding DeepSeek can be addressed by hosting open source models on Indian servers,” Vaishnaw said at an industry conference.

“We will be keeping our models open and application-focused,” he said.

Our Reel minister sound sincere here, but we all know he is going to f—k up. I don't know how or when, but he will f—k this up.

Tax authorities have cancelled the non-profit status of Reporters Collective, claiming

journalism does not serve any public purpose and therefore cannot be carried out as a non-profit exercise in India.

The first case against ChatGPT in India was filed by news agency ANI, according to the news agency’s counsel. In its response to the ANI lawsuit, OpenAI had argued that Indian courts lack jurisdiction over copyright claims as the company’s servers are located abroad. It further stated that deleting training data, as requested, would breach its obligations under US law.

And it is not a comedic stunt like Shyam Rangeela

It's been quite a while since I started here but I haven't found many good communities about India around here that I can follow. It's not easy to find communities on this server yet, and the ones I know about are not really active. So, any good recommendation is appreciated.