Tonc successfully implement e-governance, the country must think about ‘mobiles first’ and give importance to mobile governance, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday. Addressing the 18th National Conference on e-Governance through Twitter, Mr Modi said: “I urge you to explore ways to provide as many services as possible through mobiles. Let us bring the…
In a first, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today chose to address his remarks to the 18th National Conference on e-Governance via Twitter. Given that the PM is known to be a Twitter-savvy person and more recently the first global leader to have sent out an audio-video tweet, it’s hardly surprising that he chose the platform to…
Attacks on electronic payment systems are a serious financial stability concern that requires public investment, and that the US Federal Reserve and other central banks should move to thwart, a top Fed official said today. Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren did not comment on monetary policy or the economy in a speech to the Basel…
Topface, one of the world’s largest dating websites, said it has paid a hacker an undisclosed sum to stop trying to sell about 20 million email addresses stolen from the Russian company. Topface Chief Executive Dmitry Filatov said the company located the hacker, who had published ads to sell the data but had not actually…
German luxury carmaker BMW has fixed a security flaw that could have allowed hackers to unlock the doors of up to 2.2 million Rolls-Royce, Mini and BMW vehicles, it said on Friday. BMW said officials at German motorist association ADAC had identified the problem, which affected cars equipped with the company’s Connected Drive software using…
The Gujarat Forensic Science University (GFSU) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a Finnish company to be able to train and raise a “cyber army” to combat “cyber terrorism”. The technology will eventually also be used to secure critical infrastructure, industrial control systems and other smart-city initiatives in the country. The GFSU signed…
The editor of an Urdu daily was arrested for hurting religious sentiments after her newspaper published a controversial cartoon of Prophet Mohammed made by French magazine Charlie Hebdo. Urdu outlet Awadhnama had reprinted the cartoon of Prophet Mohammed on January 17, like some other newspapers and TV news channels did after the horrific terrorist attack…
A global human rights body has voiced concern that vaguely worded laws in India that criminalise free speech continue to be misused as it asked the new government to fulfill its campaign promises of introducing laws to promote women’s rights, end discrimination and punish uniformed personnel for serious rights abuses.
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Barrack Hasuain Obama—US President on his second visit to India said all that needed to be said in Delhi Town Hall, his audience young and vibrant—the generation next of India. Though, what he did say might not have sounded music to some sick, sclerosed minds of aging generation, weaving hatred. The minds that rate humans…
When gunmen ran amok in the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo on January 7, killing 12 people, Bengali filmmaker Anindya Chatterjee was almost a stone’s throw from the building. Living through the harrowing experience — and the aftermath — first-hand, he has shot a documentary capturing the tremors that shook the world.
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