NCW DELIBERATE UPON SURVEY ON STATUS OF WOMEN

NEW DELHI: The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Wednesday held a day-long deliberation to discuss the findings of a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh affiliated body which had carried out an exhaustive two-volume survey of women in India. The NCW deliberated on several points from the Status of Women in India study by the Drishti Stree Adhyayan Prabodhan Kendra (DSAPK) which was released by RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat in September. In attendance at the deliberation was NCW chairperson Rekha Sharma as well as officials of seven union ministries. Sharma told HT that the NCW now plans to take up state-wise recommendations from the survey and see whether they can be implemented. She did not rule out a inter-ministerial deliberation. NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court asked search engine giant Google whether it could devise a technology by which websites containing content over which the court has passed orders, wouldn’t show up in search results.

Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw posed the query after Google moved court seeking modification of its September 18 and 30 orders that directed the search engine to block URLS containing content that pertained to allegations of sexual harassment by contemporary artist Subodh Gupta.

On September 16, Gupta filed a civil defamation suit asking that “defamatory content” be taken down from Instagram, and the links of articles about these allegations be removed from Google search pages. He also sought damages worth ₹5 crore.

“The Plaintiff has not been able to sell a single piece of work, since the defamatory posts were posted on the internet. Whereas, prior to this controversy the Plaintiff was selling numerous pieces of work monthly...,” Gupta’s plea read.

In an order dated October 14, Justice Endlaw said, “I have however enquired from the senior counsel for the applicant/defendant no 5 (Google), whether not it is technically feasible for them as a search engine to devise a technology so that whenever a Court order with respect to a particular content is passed, search engines such as the applicant/defendant no 5 (Google) do not lead to the impugned content on whichsoever website it may be contained and which are accessed through the said search engines.”

The high court directed that the reply be filed by November 10.