Government to send data protection bill to joint select committee
(WorldNews India)

The government proposed on Wednesday to send the Personal Data Protection Bill to a joint select committee of both Houses of Parliament amid protests by the Opposition. Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, who led the protest of Opposition parties, said the right to privacy of citizens was being compromised and demanded that it be sent to the departmental standing committee. Opposition parties such as the Congress and the Trinamul Congress attacked the government in the Lok Sabha for a growing `snooping industry` under its watch and alleged that the bill violated the Constitution. Union electronics and information technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad refuted the charge and said a parliamentary...