On January 26, 65 years ago, when we the people of India gave ourselves the Constitution, we adopted a new way of life defined by individual liberties, secured by free speech. In the 7th century, when Prophet Muhammad proclaimed Islam, he too gave a way of life, but let’s first go hundreds of years before…
Technology major VMware has made changes to its top management, with plans to bag new projects in Indian government, cloud computing and mobility space. The Palo Alto headquartered company appointed Sundar Balasubramanian as the Senior Director for General Business for its India business. In his role, Balasubramanian will be responsible for growing VMware’s partners and…
China has long been locked in a struggle to censor the Internet, but recent actions have show the government is taking its efforts to a whole new level. Using a virtual private networks (VPN) is a common way to get around China’s “Great Firewall,” as its sophisticated censorship apparatus is known. But on Thursday, Reuters reported that a…
The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) and Samsung Electronicshave signed an MOU to set up the MSME-Samsung Technical School, with an aim to establish a total of ten such schools for conducting joint training programmes across the country. Students at this facility will be provided trade-specific training on repair and troubleshooting for consumer electronics products…
2014 will be remembered as the year of the “multistakeholder model” on the Internet. NTIA demonstrated its commitment to bottom-up, multistakeholder Internet governance by committing to complete the transfer of responsibility for various technical functions — known as the IANA Functions — to the multistakeholder community. NTIA called on ICANN to convene the community to…
Sweden’s treatment of ethnic minorities will feature front and center at the second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on Monday.
“[The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination] expressed concern at increasing reports of racially motivated hate speech against visible minorities, including Muslims, Afro-Swedes, Roma and Jews, particularly by some far-right politicians,” the UN report said.
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Fisheries Minister Avertano Furtado on Monday said that considering the success of initiatives like Aadhar in Goa, it will be a model state in e-governance. Furtado, who was the chief guest for the Republic Day celebrations held at South Goa Collectorate building and unfurled the national flag in presence of MP Shantaram Naik, MLAs Benjamin…