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To Karnataka High Court,I run a website called Indian Kanoon http://indiankanoon.org that aggregates judgments from Supreme Court as well as all high courts. It extracts text from all judgments and provides a free state-of-art search functionality.Currently judgments provided by Karnataka High Court on the website http://www.karnatakajudiciary.kar.nic.in/ are scanned copies of printed text. The

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In Bangalore, it is very easy to spot a number of layouts where there is an entry road and other roads that connect to various buildings inside it. But you cannot enter! There is a barricade on the entry road and there are private security guards who will inquire you. The inquiry may be as simple as asking your name and purpose to displaying special cards. One question that may come to mind is

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Postgres is a database software that powers a large number of production databases around the world including Indian Kanoon. Postgres 9.0 was recently released after more than a year and half of development. The version number was jumped from 8.4 (the previous release) to 9.0 considering the inclusion of two important features namely Streaming Replication and Hot Standby. Streaming replication,

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Discussion with Shahab Nayyer:TimesOfIndia article No conviction for mere demand of dowry: Supreme Courtis flatly wrong in the title. The judgment is here - http://indiankanoon.org/doc/1330427/SC has convicted husband for "dowry death" (Section 304B of IPC) and said that there is no solid evidence of harassment from fathe...r/mother-in-law to convict under section 304B or section 498A. You need

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I am sure many of you would be full of disgust for the opinion I have on Kashmir Secessionist's. But I am more disgusted with all those people who have been arguing that Kashmir should secede from India. You may think that I am just another Indian supporter who does not understand the reality of Kashmir. However, before you think that you have understood me, it is important to listen to my view

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They tell me that there is a process for allocation tenders. They tell me that people involved in the process are all senior officers. And then I find that tenders that are allocated are worse than what my house maid would go and get. Then they tell that proper processes were followed and approved by senior officers. By the way if you think that the rates are exorbitant by an order of magnitude,

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I just read the amazing article on truth about encounter on indiatogether.org I thought I would just tweet about the article but some of the lines are so enlightening that I cannot help but put on my blog. "People are as much attuned to fairness as they are to individual self-interest. Therefore, any institution regulating human behaviour will have to ensure that the compromises between

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The burning of "Best Bakery" building was one of the shameful incidents in Gujarat riots of 2002. 14 people of which 12 were muslims died ( wikipedia article). The details of the case were:"... period between about 8.30 p.m. on 01/03/2002 and 11.00 a.m. on 02/03/2002, residential building and bakery belonging to a Muslim family, was set on fire and burnt down by members of an unlawful assembly,

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The much awaited Bilski vs Kappos was decided on Monday, 28th June by the US Supreme Court. The Bilski patent was rejected earlier by the Federal court on the ground that the claimed invention was not tied to a "machine" or caused "transformation of a physical object". However, the Supreme Court rejected that line of argument saying that rejecting a "process" by a test not explicitly stated in

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My guest post on Code-For-India on lawandotherthings blog.

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On flipping channel I recently found a show called "Emotional Atyachar" on UTV Bindass. The main objective of the show is to test if your partner is loyal to you or not. The show reminded me of the "Cheaters" thats aired on CW Plus. In Cheaters, a person can ask the show people to see if their partner is cheating or not. The crew would then follow the "suspected cheater" like a detective armed

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I was finally able to watch 3-idiots a couple of weeks back. The movie is pretty hilarious, music is amazing and everyone has done a very good job. I think you can find much detailed review of the movie elsewhere and I am going to focus only on the philosophical thinking advanced in the movie.Before I start I want to make a few points clear. Firstly, many people believe that they are practical

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The new bill proposed by the Maharashtra government will require new applicants for taxi permits to have stayed in the state for 15 years and be well versed with one of the local languages. While I am not a constitutional expert to say if the proposed law violates right to free movement or puts undue burden on right to occupation, it makes me think on the issue of identity in India.People in

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Our blacklist paper titled:Improving Spam Blacklisting Through Dynamic Thresholding and Speculative Aggregationand authored by:Sushant Sinha, Michael Bailey, and Farnam JahanianUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI - 48109.is going to be presented in Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium, 2010 from 28th Febuary to 3rd March in San Deigo, California.Here is the abstract:

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Indian Kanoon has been pretty useful for people seeking information on Indian Law. Over time Indian Kanoon reputation on general search engines like google and yahoo improved and as a result pages from Indian Kanoon started surfacing in the top few of search results. So one completely inadvertent thing that happened was that people would go on google/yahoo and type someone's name and see the

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MCC Murugappa Gold Cup Hockey tournament 2009 - October 1 to October 11, 2009 in Mayor Radhakrishanan Stadium, Chennai EgmorePool A------Air IndiaIndian Overseas Bank (IOB)Karnataka XIBPCLONGCPool B-------Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)Army XIMumbai XIIndian RailwaysPunjab National Bank (PNB).nobrtable br { display: none }01-10-2009 Thursday 2:15 pm IOB vs Karnataka XI2-202-10-2009 Friday 2:15 pm

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A recent upgrade to the Indian Kanoon server broke down the glibc dependency of many software packages. Glibc is one of the most critical pieces of libraries whose upgrade has definitely hoaxed the box. I came to the data center today trying to fix this problem and even the package manager was not working.Booting from scratch and then reinstalling core components has produced some results. At

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Computer Science and Engineering CSE DefenseContext Aware Network SecuritySushant SinhaFriday, July 31, 20093:00 pm - 5:00 pm3725 CSEChair: F. JahanianThe public is invited to attend

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Postgresql has a full text search engine built into it. Teodor Siagev and Oleg Bartunov, who started a text search engine called OpenFTS, merged their code base into Postgresql 7.4 as a separate contrib module called tsearch2. Tsearch2 is highly extensible and sophisticated code base for text search. It is flexible in the sense that you can write your own stemmer and parser, or even use the

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ISP's have been warning us for a long time that the bandwidth on the Internet is exhausting. The doom's day when we will not be able to use the Internet is pretty close. They have attributed this problem to a variety of reasons: a small group of users consuming significantly more bandwidth than others, some applications like bit-torrent consuming the entire bandwidth, some websites like youtube

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Please spread the press release for Indian Kanoonfar and widehttp://indiankanoon.org/static/press_release.txt

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I recently upgraded Ubuntu on my Dell Inspiron 13 laptop from the Ibex Intrepid (8.10) to Jaunty Jackalope (9.04). "upgrade -d" was very slow on 23rd April, the release date for Jaunty. So I downloaded the Jaunty image using bit torrent. Once I had enough number of peers the average speed was topping 10MBPS. Looks like I was behind a 100Mbps switch.Jaunty brings in Gnome 2.26 and a number of new

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To Allahahad High Court,I am Sushant Sinha, a PhD candidate in the Department of ComputerScience and Engineering at the University of Michigan. I am also a founder of legal search engine called Indian Kanoon (http://indiankanoon.org) Indian Kanoon provides state of art free search and free access to Indian court judgments to the common people.Indian Kanoon daily crawls different Indian court

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Our new paper One Size Does Not Fit All: 10 Years of Applying Context-Aware Security is going to be published in May 2009 in International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security 2009.Here is the abstract:Defenders of today's critical cyber-infrastructure (e.g., the Internet) are equipped with a wide array of security techniques including network-based intrusion detection systems (IDS),

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I had the book titled "India Unbound" (by Gurcharan Das) for a long time. Finally I got time to read this book on the flight. Gurcharan Das discusses the economic policies of indian government since independence. Narrated in first person, the book does an extremely good job of putting the economic policies of indian government in perspective and how that impacted the indian society. Gurcharan Das

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Just a quick update that I am in New York waiting to board the Air India flight to India. I will be in India from 25th March to 12th April.

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I just read Michael Mandel's article in business week about what caused the banking crisis and why it is difficult for people to comprehend the problem. I have seen the broad facts and the arguments earlier. But Michael Mandel does an extremely good job of presenting them in a simple fashion as the title of the article claims. I remember reading economist and business week 4 years back when

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dpkt is a very useful python package for constructing/parsing packets with different protocols. However, it is very poor in documentation and a lot of magic is hidden inside the code. Jon Oberheide presents the first tutorial on dpkt.

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I went to play the Midwest field hockey championship in Cincinnati last weekend. There were 8 teams in total. Most of them like Chicago, Notredame, Indiana, our team (Michigan) were from mid-west except a team from Florida. It was fun to play some competitive field hockey after a while. Being an indoor tournament, the game was restricted to 7 players a side with at most 3 substitutes. Every team

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My post on government efforts in digitizing primary legal resources. I highlight some problems in the efforts and some suggestions for future improvements.

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BJP was quite successful in raising Ayodhya issue to become a dominant national party in India. However Ayodhya issue has not given it any significant benefit in any subsequent elections. Time has come for BJP to turn to a more development oriented party. The crack between hindu and muslim community need to be healed too. A large symbol of secularism can be constructed in Ayodhya to show the

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My interview with Kishore Buddha on Indian Kanoon and other stuff is here.

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I was quite pleased to find law information publicly available on the judis andthe indiacode. However, it was too difficult to look for anything on thesewebsites and so I started building tool sets to play with law data. At acertain point I felt that integration of these small software pieces will bevery interesting. I was still skeptic as to whether search on law documentsmeant anything to

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In A constitutional state, Rasul Bakhsh Rais points out the reasons for weak democracy in Pakistan. While the generally pointed problem is the over indulgence of military into civil government, Rasul points out other aspects that have made civilian governments weak. He points "The answer lies in the undemocratic mindset of traditional leaders who control the political parties and, through them,

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An informative article from Daily Times, Pakistan (Next steps after evidence from India) that talks about India invoking "SAARC Regional Convention on Suppression of terrorism (1987)" for extradition of Pakistani suspects in Mumbai attack. Article 3(4) says:"If a Contracting State which makes extradition conditional on the existence of a treaty receives a request for extradition from another

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The supreme court judgment in which Afzal Guru, his wife Navjot Sandhu, Shaukat hussain Guru, and SAR Gilani were tried is here:State (N.C.T. Of Delhi) vs Navjot Sandhu@ Afsan Guru on 4 August, 2005The judgment narrates the events, talks about the police investigation, confessions and finally the judgment. It also talks in detail about the different provisions relating to confessions under POTA

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Information Technology (Ammendment) Bill passed in Lok Sabha yesterday. PRSindia has done a brief review of the billThe main aim for the Information Technology Act of 2000 was to bring legal legitimacy to electronic transactions by bringing in rules regarding digital certificates. The current bill goes beyond that to specify electronic contracts, cyber tribunal, pornography, wiretapping and

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Whenever the computer starts running slow, I (as others) am curious as to whathas got wrong. Sometimes it is temporary performance issues and other times itbecomes very periodic in nature. That is when I really want to know what isgoing wrong. Off course I would like to know what are the broad failures toeven start debugging. Is the hardware too old to run current software? Does aparticular linux

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Alan Greenspan in a congressional testimony on October 23, 2008 said:"Remember what an ideology is. It is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality. Everyone has one. To exist, you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not. What I am saying to you is .. Yes I found a flaw which I do not know how significant or permanent it is .. but I am very distressed

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Microsoft along with an Indian subsidiary has applied for a patent on file snapshots and a possible version maintainence system. The two thing required to get a patent in India is that there should not be any prior art to it and the patent application should present a new innovative step. However, we do not evaluate these issues for this particular patent because software patents are disallowed

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Police in Amritsar has instructed cyber cafe owners to start tracking their users (Times of India). Now cafe owners are required to maintain the list of their users along with the time they have used a particular computer. Each user has to furnish some form of identity in the form of driving licence or college ID cards. In case they can't, then they have to use CCTV's to track students. I could

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Losing your computer data is a bad thing. One good habit is to regularly back up your data. But manually doing this is too cumbersome and so we need automated scripts to back up the data. Here is a small script that I use to back up my own desktop daily. It uses rsync protocol over ssh. You need to have ssh, rsync and ssh public-private key pairs for your back up machine. Setting up SSH key

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A number of computer developers assume that Computer Software is patentable in India similar to US. However, it is a good news that software cannot be patented in India. Section 4(k) in THE PATENTS (AMENDMENT) ACT specifically prohibits this. This section becomes the Section 3(k) of the Indian Patent Act. It is interesting that the Government allowed software patents in India using an Ordinance

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India prides herself as the largest democracy in the world. There are three broad pillars of Indian democracy: the legislatures who make laws, the executives who enforce laws and the judiciary that interprets laws. The laws regulate a number of activities like criminal offense, civil cases, taxation, trade, social welfare, education and labor rights.Even when laws empower citizens in a large

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Government of India passed a law to reserve 27% seats in Centrally Administered Institutions (IIT and IIM included) for the disadvantaged Other Backward Castes. This law adds to already reserved 15% seats for Scheduled castes and 7.5% for Scheduled Tribes raising total reservations in these institutions to 49.5%. Our legislatures provide the rational that caste is invariably the single most

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I'm pulling relavant informaiton from the following draft "An Overview of Glaciers, Glacier Retreat, and Subsequent Impacts in Nepal, India and China." I have not read any of the cited papers except Shresta et al 2003 and right now I'm trusting this source for the following information. A status of the glacier inventory of Ganga-Brahmaputra basins--------------------------------------------------

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The feast of roses is a fiction that covers a detailed historical view on Mughal empire during the rein of Jahangir. The book sheds light on Mehrunisha/Noor Jahan, the twentieth wife of Jahangir and one of the most powerful women in Mughal empire. The book covers in detail how Jahangir used to run the empire and in broader perspective how Mughal empire was structured. It provides detailed

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Global warming is significantly covered by media these days and a large number of people are convinced about the scientific evidence of global warming. After all if Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) consisting of more than 200 scientists have reported significant rise in temperature in future, then a common person is hardly wrong. If one is a skeptic of global warming, then it is

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Today population is divided into two portions: one who vehemently oppose selection by merit and believe it is constructed as another tool to advance control by privileged class and the other group who believes meritocracy as a whole is the only morally sound principal for advancing society. What has caused this significant difference in perception? Is the difference in perception because:1.

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Linux limited support for wireless devices makes one often switch to windows. I often wanted wireless cards that work on linux without any effort. If you want a wireless card to work without any problem, buy a Prism chipset supported on linux exclusively athttp://prism54.org. The card that I have is a Netgear WG511 (Made in Taiwan and not China).Yesterday I also got a Ralink chipset exclusively

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Falling over backwards-- An essay against Reservations and against Judicial populismBy Arun Shourie (2006)Arun Shourie presents an insightful view into the reservation debate from the most important point: Lawmaking and Judiciary. Today the reservation debate has informed common people on the positive and negative aspects of reservation. However, the major decision making does not involve

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Stiglitz presents the composition and structure of International Monetary Fund (IMF) , the way in which IMF handled the financial crises in East Asia in 1997-98, the policies IMF adopted and enforced during liberalization of Russia. Finally he discusses the possible reasons why IMF failed, its consequences on different countries and what can be done to avoid future crises. IMF was established to

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