The new policy of Government of India, which mandates the use of Open Source Software (OSS) for e-governance applications, will add strategic value to the Digital India Initiative, B Ramani, Director of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) has said. He was inaugurating the ‘CDAC-ICFOSS Joint Consultation on the OSS Policy of Government…
The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS) has decided to discontinue with the practice of sending letters/ circulars / guidelines in hard copy form to National Sports Federations (NSFs) /IOA. The Ministry has decided that hence forth, communications required to be sent to all NSFs / a group of NSFs with copy to IOA…
Applications for the government’s marriage assistance and child protection schemes can be submitted at the 169 public service centres set up under the State government’s e-governance project in the district, Collector K.S. Palanisamy said on Friday. While 146 of the public service centres are run by various primary agricultural cooperative societies, 12 are run by…
Office of the Director of Kannada and Culture will be the first in the State to turn into an entirely paperless office (PLO) shortly, under the core-Mission Mode Project of National e-Governance Plan of the Centre. Officials in the department said unlike a few offices, which claim to have become PLOs with the support of…
What do Mahatma Gandhi and competitive boxers have in common? They’ve both been powerful advocates for human rights, a group of fighters and advocates said Sunday at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. A Romani-German boxer the Nazis discriminated against bleached his hair blond and covered his body with flour to mock the regime’s vision…
Imagine that one man owned everything. Call him Croesus, after the king of ancient lore who, Herodotus says, was so “wonderfully rich” that he “thought himself the happiest of mortals.” Impossibly elevated above his fellow men and women, this modern Croesus is also magnanimous. He does not want people to starve, and not only because…
Britain’s relationship with privacy is complicated. Our strongly ingrained attachment to the benefits of private property underpins the idea that personal privacy is about the existence of an almost physical sphere. It is one of the reasons that phone-hacking by journalists seemed such a shocking means of intrusion: it amounted to an almost visceral entry…
Here’s a little quiz for you. U.S. hospitals’ errors kill more people each year than: A. Breast cancer B. HIV / AIDS C. Cardiovascular disease If you guessed A or B, you’d be right; and you’d be in the minority who recognize just how dangerous a place hospitals can be. Healthcare is a classic information-driven…
In occupied Kashmir, the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) has condemned the restrictions by the authorities on a seminar organized by the Muslim League in Srinagar, yesterday. While strongly condemning the police restrictions on the scheduled seminar the DFP said, “The puppet administration by resorting to such means is showing its autocratic nature.”…
The churnings of the second decade of the 21st century resulted in social and political unrest across the globe, and revolutions in a number of Arab countries pushed the boundaries of freedom and created an urgent desire to challenge rules and norms that had long been taken for granted. For artists one of the shifting…