Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India initiative aims to bolster the technical infrastructure for e-governance and e-commerce in the country, and also hopes to reach out to 250,000 panchayats, enlarge the scope of citizen delivery services and allow a greater participation of citizens as part of the Centre’s ‘minimum government, maximum governance’ approach. Along with…
In a bid to bridge the digital divide in rural India, India Post is all set to roll out a Rs 1,370-crore mega project in Tamil Nadu, according to which 1.3 lakh postmen in rural areas would be provided with network connected hand-held devices, which would aid them in postal delivery. Addressing a press conference,…
5807 gram panchayaths, including block headquarters in Karnataka, would be getting rural broadband optical fiber connectivity under the ‘Digital India’- BharatNet fiber project by Bharath Broadband Network Limited (BBNL), Bengaluru by this year end. BharatNet fiber is a centre -state collaborative project of BBNL to facilitate the delivery of e-governance, e-health, e-education, e-governance, e-banking and…
Scaling on the optical fibre network, the nation is all set to march on the digital path this week when Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches a Rs one lakh crore programme aimed at wiping out the digital divide. The programme, envisaged by Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), with coordination with ministry of communications…
BSNL has been given the responsibility of Digital India project in Bihar and 16 other states. India has been divided into two parts, one which has the internet facility and the other lacking it. This digital divide has to be removed by laying optical fibre in every panchayat to provide broadband connectivity to rural India,…
Delhi government’s controversial advisory to hospitals to not completely ban the per vaginal examination, also known as the two-finger test, of victims of sexual assault has put on hold. “Since there is scope for misinterpretation of the advisory, the chief minister has asked for a review. We would be reviewing the matter in the afternoon…
J&K Shri Ram Sena and Jammu and Kashmir Freedom Fighter Association today paid candle light tributes to the soldiers of 6 Dogra Battalion who laid down their lives in a militant attack at Manipur, in which 18 soldiers died and 15 got severe injuries. To pay tributes to martyrs, a Shraddhanjali programme was organized at…
The Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT), a unit under the department of telecommunications (DoT), has begun technical and operational testing of its servers, linked to the servers of mobile operators. Once in operation, it would enable security agencies to tap phones, intercept and monitor calls without keeping telcos in the loop. However, the requisite…
In a few days, net neutrality will once again be hotly debated when the report submitted by the telecom department to the TRAI will be made public. Whether the recommendations by the telecom department will be considered when the Indian government decides on net neutrality policies remains uncertain. But on a global level, net neutrality…
Deutsche Telekom and Intel Security have announced an agreement to build a joint research alliance that provides immediate detailed information for customers by implementing more robust rapid response sensors. The collaboration focuses on digital “Honey Pots”, computers which pretend to be vulnerable PCs, servers or even smartphones. “Our aim is to develop the honey pot…