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[Link] India Expands Piracy Blocklist to Tackle ‘Hydra Headed Rogue Websites’

Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com

Pirate site blocking is a common practice in many countries and India is no exception. The language used in Indian courts tends to be more colorful though. This is exemplified by a blocking extension several major Hollywood studios requested recently.

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[Link] Court Orders WhatsApp To Block Groups Sharing Pirated Newspapers

Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com

India's largest newspaper publishing group has filed a complaint at the Delhi High Court against dozens of defendants said to have illegally offered its copyrighted publications via WhatsApp.

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[Link] India Has Millions of Crypto Investors. A Proposed Ban Has Them Petrified.

Read: 25/11/2021 www.vice.com

In a move that has led to panic selling among local crypto investors, the Indian parliament announced on Nov. 23 that it is deliberating a bill that seeks to “prohibit all private cryptocurrencies in India” to pave the way for a single official digital currency to be issued by the government.

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[Link] Indian police charge local Amazon executives over marijuana trade

Read: 22/11/2021 www.abc.net.au

Police in the central state of Madhya Pradesh arrested two men with 20 kilograms of marijuana on November 14 and found they were using the Amazon India website to order and further smuggle the substance in the guise of stevia leaves, a natural sweetener, to other Indian states.

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[Link] Sci-Hub: Researchers File Intervention Application To Fight ISP Blocking

Read: 22/11/2021 torrentfreak.com

Last December, academic publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society filed a lawsuit demanding that Indian ISPs block access to Sci-Hub and Libgen for copyright infringement.

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[Link] Inside a Booming Black Market for Heroin in the Shadow of the Himalayas

Read: 19/11/2021 www.vice.com

We spoke to a dealer who dodges Indian soldiers and checkpoints to sell drugs in the world’s most militarised zone. Srinagar, KASHMIR – Javed has been looking over his shoulder more often than he'd like.

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[Link] The Growing Crusade Against Sex, Muslim Culture, and Lesbians in India’s Ads

Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com

India’s leading fashion designer was forced to withdraw advertisements for his latest line of wedding jewellery after he was threatened with legal action by a politician from the ruling party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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[Link] Man Gets Double Life Sentence For Killing His Wife With a Cobra

Read: 17/10/2021 www.vice.com

According to prosecution lawyers, Sooraj Kumar killed his wife, Uthra, for her gold jewellery and wanted to marry another woman. This was Kumar’s third attempt to murder his wife, they said. In March last year, Kumar allegedly set a viper to bite Uthra while she was staying with her in-laws.

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[Link] These Gangsters Pretended to Be Lawyers To Kill Their Rival in Court

Read: 28/9/2021 www.vice.com

Stunning footage captured the moment after two gangs went head to head at a courtroom in India, resulting in three deaths and raising questions about security.

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