Sarath is the new chief!

Sarathkumar has been unanimously elected as the Nadigar Sangam President. On the last day of withdrawl of nomination, actor Nasser took back the nomination he had submitted. The buzz is that after making a lot of noises “about actors in active politics becoming Nadigar Sangam office bearers”, Nasser who was willing to be supported by the ruling party got cold feet. Now, it will be interesting to see how Sarath handles the ruling party , who, are silently gunning for him. Will all actors toe the line taken by Sarath in affairs relating to the Nadigar Sangam?

Source: Sify

Censorship?

Leading technology portal Slashdot reported that Indian ISPs under the direction of Government of India has decided to block blogs such as Blogger and Typepad in the immediate aftermath of the Mumbai bomb blasts. This has resulted in thousands of bloggers in India and abroad joining together to protest the decision.

Ministry of Information Technology has now provided an explanation for this problem which they blame it on a “technical error”. It clarified that it has issued orders to major ISP companies like Tata, Sify, Reliance, and BSNL to block around 18 blogs in an effort to curb religious extremism on the web. However, the “technical error” resulted in many of the popular blogs to be on the blackout list.